> BOM- Thus the air is warmer near the Equator and thus less dense and rises; the air at
> the poles is colder and denser. This sets up a circular motion of the air Equator to
> Pole at higher altitude and Pole to Equator at the surface.

Yet, low pressure zones are formed around the Equator over the Oceans as the nucleus of hurricanes!

Also, the main air flow Jet Stream tends to go West-East and NOT North-South (or vice-versa), like from Poles to Equator as you claim!!!

> This would be simple except that the earth is spinning and that creates a lot of
> complications in the weather.

The point is that the complications don't come just from the spinning but also from EM changes!

> The basic point, however is that high and low pressure areas have to do with the
> temperature of the air and nothing whatever to do with the earth’s magnetic field.

Wishful thinking! A thunder storm, for example, can quickly change the temperature of the air during a storm and that is, of course, due to the heat generated by the lightening discharge...and electricity is always directly related to magnetism. That is a FACT.

Meaning that electricity and therefore magnetism changes, can directly affect the temperature of the air, specially during lightening discharges...

> BOM- Thus the source of electric charge in clouds that leads to thunder and lightning
> is not the earth’s magnetic field.

But, changes in magnetism create an electric current. Are you denying that!?

So, if/when there are more changes in the earth's magnetic field, then those changes can also potentially and DIRECTLY induce changes in the electric flows in the the atmosphere...

> Just because there is a relationship that electric currents produce magnetic fields
> and that conversely moving magnetic fields produce electric currents does not mean
> that all electricity is somehow related to magnetic fields and vice versa.

Of course it is! Electricity (primarily AC) and magnetism are DIRECTLY RELATED...Changes in one directly affect/effect changes in the other. For example, what is actually flowing in the power lines carrying electricity is an AC power EM wave at low frequencies...

Maybe you should review your notes about electricity and magnetism!!!

-wirelessguru1