The sun is constant yet ocean temperatures increase and decrease. Why?

[ding]

The power of the Sun at the Earth, per square metre is called the solar constant and is approximately 1370 watts per square metre (W/m2). The variation in the solar constant has been about 0.1% over a period of about 30 years.

Mean ocean temperature during the last four glacial cycles have changed by as much as 6C.

If solar output is constant during glacial and interglacial periods, why does the mean ocean temperature change by as much as 6C?

Man wasn't around back then.

Was the atmosphere responsible for the ocean warming and cooling by 4C to 6C? If so, how did the atmosphere do it?

Were ocean currents responsible for the ocean warming and cooling by 4C to 6C?? If so, how did ocean currents do it?

 

[Polishprince]

There are a lot of factors that go into climate and weather. sun spots, asteroids, comets, volcanic eruptions, subtle changes in the earth's rotation and revolution around the sun. It just isn't one thing.

That's why the weather changed so much from a million years ago when the dinosaurs were roaming the earth- even though SUV's hadn't even been invented yet.

 

[ding]

There are a lot of factors that go into climate and weather. sun spots, asteroids, comets, volcanic eruptions, subtle changes in the earth's rotation and revolution around the sun. It just isn't one thing.

That's why the weather changed so much from a million years ago when the dinosaurs were roaming the earth- even though SUV's hadn't even been invented yet.

Actually it is. When heat is circulated from the Atlantic to the Arctic the planet warms. When that circulation gets disrupted, the planet cools. Check out thermohaline circulation.

 

[Donald H]

There are a lot of factors that go into climate and weather. sun spots, asteroids, comets, volcanic eruptions, subtle changes in the earth's rotation and revolution around the sun. It just isn't one thing.

All of those causes listed are the work of the god, according to the Christian theory. They will then maintain that is indeed 'all one thing'.