Bob Armstrong has left a new comment on the post "Winter Persists in Northeastern Canada":
Read the implementation of the basic Stefan-Boltzmann/Kirchhoff relationship at my http://CoSy.com . It's now been translated into a couple of relatively accessible array programming languages . Essentially SB says objects radiate energy proportional to their temperature to the 4th power . Kirchhoff 150 years ago this year realized that simply painting a ball white won't make it colder . Venus , the most reflective inner planet , is about twice as hot as any object in its orbit can be simply from the radiance of the sun . Thus it is radiating about 16 time as much energy as it could possibly be absorbing . It must have an internal source of heat . Incidentally , Mars has a 95% CO2 atmosphere but is at its SB/K computed temperature within observational error .
Thanks for the question . This IS a crucial fact for people to understand the level of BS they have been fed .
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Posted by Bob Armstrong to Only In It For The Gold at June 30, 2009 9:14 AM