I don’t know if this has been addressed before, but can a FE adherent explain why when you climb a mountain the temperature drops drastically? It would stand to reason that if the Sun is much closer to the Earth in the FE theory as opposed to the GE theory, the temperature would rise as you got closer to the Sun.
Uhm, the same reason the temperature would drop on a globe, the decrease in air pressure, and less sun reflecting off the surface, etc. What, do you imagine that the FE models holds that the sun is 20,000 feet above the surface? Relatively small increase in proximity to the sun doesn't suffice to cancel out the cooling due to lower air pressure and other factors. When the atmosphere is thinner, there's less matter for the sun's raise to excite and therefore convert into heat (heat is caused by vibrating molecules).
See, the Glober attitude is that they've already decided that the earth is a globe/ball and so they just keep slinging enough manure at the wall with the hope that some of it will stick.