La Palma, Canary Islands - Volcano Thread

Really lovely to see a reasonable conversation with plenty of observations and thanks.

The rotational velocity at La Palma is about 910 mph while it is 620 mph at the latitude of Dublin so that the transition from darkness to daylight is far more rapid on the Canary islands than on the island of Ireland. It explains some of the issues brought up here and although it is well two decades since I first explained it, the current expression based on the angle of the Sun still remains.

Rotation is built into many Earth sciences from biology to climate to evolutionary geology hence the importance of the topic so many here have fought against for so long.

Tell me - what causes the transition from darkness to daylight to be far more rapid on the Canary islands as opposed to the island of Ireland?. It is for the same reason that the Earth has tectonic and volcanic activity while Venus only has volcanic activity.

Only reasonable people would enjoy the all the explanations which connect the Earth sciences of climate, biology and geology together.

At least you learned that the planet turns at a rate of 1 degree for 4 minutes of rotation as a first step towards understanding climate. This is not for miserable or boring people so better go back to your 'temperature over timekeeping' graphs which omit planetary dynamics

Dublin will always be 11 degrees East of the Canary islands based on the 24 hour and Lat/Long systems, making it 44 minutes earlier along the same line of longitude. That is what accurate clocks were invented for to determine location on the planet.

The Royal Society modellers decided that the planet doesn't turn once in 24 hours and so cause and effect was lost for centuries-

" It is a fact not generally known that,owing to the difference between solar and sidereal time,the Earth rotates upon its axis once more often than there are days in the year" NASA /Harvard

I was correct with the difference in daylight times between Dublin and the Canaries but could have been clearer on the latitudinal distinctions where the Dublin longitude and the latitude of the Canary island would always see the Sun rise 44 minutes earlier regardless of seasons.

None of you ever learned about the timekeeping structure which is why humanity is in such trouble with linear timekeeping to the exclusion of planetary dynamics and the links to Earth sciences of biology, climate and geology.

Over the last few months the editors of Wikipedia finally changed the rotational value for the Earth to 24 hours, but have yet to realise that means also changing the Equatorial rotational velocity to 1037.5 mph or 1669.8 km/hr consistent with the 24 hour and Lat/Long systems -

Sidereal rotation period - 23h 56m 4.100s

Equatorial rotation velocity - 1674.4 km/h; 1040.4 mph

[Main 'Earth' article Wikipedia]

The inability to post relevant links through somebody's petty nature is just the same lack of integrity I have known for 30 years as people adapt to better and more productive perspectives using observations I provided. Ultimately the information gets through and things change slowly but change they do.