Science question
If cold air sinks and warm air rises, how can a hole between a cold basement and a warm ground floor room let cold air into the upper room?
( Kroney, Mon 20 Oct 2008, 17:55, 6 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

Because you touch children.

( mike woz ere 7442200 & 7696970 getter, Mon 20 Oct 2008, 18:01, Reply)

This is a trap
Don't answer this question.
(The Archduke of South London I'm in your Girlfriend eating her organs, Mon 20 Oct 2008, 18:07, Reply)

My guess
is that the top of your house is not airtight, so the warm air seeps out around windows and doors and such. Neither is your basement airtight, so air seeps in around things there.

The result is that your house acts something like a chimney, with the warm air drawing the cool air up from below- and the area around that opening has the cool air coming up in a fountain from it.
( The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Mon 20 Oct 2008, 18:24, Reply)

Yes
any movement of air across the top of the hole will result in air being drawn up 'from below'
(catapilla is sorry he wasted, Mon 20 Oct 2008, 19:24, Reply)

I think it's
Via the medium of dance. Or small pixies.
(The Apeface Cherub is not a cunty-uber-cunt, Tue 21 Oct 2008, 10:18, Reply)

Pressure difference
That's all you need to know.
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Tue 21 Oct 2008, 21:24, Reply)