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there's far more than that to it. There will always be circulation patterns as this is heat convection and it will always be more heat coming in where the sun is at the zenith and far less where the sun remains far away from zenith. As long as there is liquid ocean, there is a reserve to provide h2o vapor which is lighter molecular weight than the rest of the atm and it will evaporate and rise until the point where clouds will form, carrying heat as it goes. when the clouds form, there will be significant reflection of solar insolation occur, reducing the heating effect coming in by increasing earth's albedo. It's a self regulating system with massive amounts of negative feedback.

Albedo data for the last 20 yrs indicates variations of about 8% in overall coverage, including a giant dip around 1998 - the ultra hot year. It would appear to be rather good correlation between the albedo and the surface temperature, something totally missing from the the co2 vs avg T with time during recent times. However, never fear, it would seem that co2 does plot well with sea surface T - creating something suspiciously like a solubility chart and hinting strongly at the prospects that T drives co2, far more so than man.