such a system, entropy is not maximised, but is being produced continuously; as heat flows continuously from hot to cold. 199 EFTA00625327 What Paltridge and Lorenz discovered was that the earth appeared to act in a 'deliberate' manner, by adjusting the temperatures across the globe, to a give a maxim

tantially. In the 1970s Garth Paltridge produced papers looking at the absorption of sunlight by the earth and the re-radiation of heat into space. Paltridge's model is profoundly simplistic. He split the earth into just ten cells by latitude and set up basic energy balance flows between the cells and at

anetary ecology and appears not to have percolated into the general physics community despite appearing to have general applicability. The ideas of Paltridge, Lorenz, Dewar and others, along with the mathematical techniques of Levy & Solomon, may not be familiar to many physicists, and I believe may be ve