Warm air hoax

>>8952066
warm air doesn't rise, it moves towards the most entropic/cold state. In this case the warm air moves towards the mountaintop because it is cold. Space is even colder, so that's ultimately the way the warm wants to go.

>>8952130
>being this retarded

>>8952066
As it rises it expands. As it expands it cools.

PV/NT=Kb

>what is a temperature lapse rate
Air temperature decreases by 2°C/1000 ft in a standard atmosphere. As air rises it adiabatically cools due to expansion

>>8952145
>>8952279
But mountains are closer to the Sun.

>>8952314
he's right you know

>>8952314
Then at the tropopause the air should be scalding hot, right? Oh wait, it's -56°C

>>8952314
The added heat by the sun is negligible compared to the heat offered by the earth at that point, until you get well above the top of mount everest the heat the sun provides can't counterbalance the lack of heat from the earth at that height. It warms up to be only a little chilly and then cools back down to space temperatures once you get high enough.

>>8952314
Barely. The height of mt Everest is 3 orders of magnitude smaller than the radius of the earth.