It is important to know at this stage that the second law can be stated in many forms e.g., the Kelvin-Planck Statement or the Clausius Statement, and has to do with the impossibility of spontaneously converting disordered forms of energy totally into ordered forms of energy without doing ...
Divide the lumens, i.e., the brightness of a light bulb, by its luminous efficacy to obtain this wattage: watts = lumens / luminous efficacy Why are bulb lighting colors in Kelvin? The bulb light colors artificially mimic the Kelvin temperature of a metal object when it’s heated, rangin...
And then there is also the difference between a “warm” polar ocean at ~freezing point and one covered with more ice at ~30Kelvin colder. That’s an awful lot of extra energy being radiated by E = σT4 7 Tom Reply to Stephen Wilde January 2, 2022 2:33 pm My understanding of...
Fossil foraminifera can be used to identify the conditions in which the enclosing sediments accumulated. We can use the oxygen-18 ratios to recognize glacial and warm episodes during the current Ice Age. We know that during the last million years of the Late Pleistocene Ice Age the planet has ...
They have gathered some of the brightest experts from around the world to start to build a new, modern climate model. They hope to corral the vast flow of data from sensors in space, on land, and in the ocean, and enlist “machine learning,” a kind of artificial intelligence, to bring...
Annual report on global temperature change to December 2014 By Christopher Monckton of Brenchley Global warming is not happening at anything like the predicted rate. The divergence between prediction and reality is now severe. Despite revisions in the te
“The other thing that amazes me is that when you talk about climate change it is always going to be the worst. It’s got to be better someplace for heaven’s sake. It can’t always be to the worse,” he said. “Then comes the clincher. If climate change does not scare people...
Roger Taguchi, who often circulates fascinating emails on climatological physics, has sent me a beautifully simple and elegant demonstration that IPCC has at least doubled true climate sensitivity, turning a non-problem into a wolf-criers’ crisis. To assist in grasping the beauty of his b...
To make assurance doubly sure, we commissioned a government laboratory to build a test rig to its own design and to carry out the same 23 experiments. The results agreed with what the theory had led us to predict, and did so to the equivalent of a tenth of a Kelvin in each case. If...
3.6. Results of Applying the Noonworld Diabatic Model to Venus. Converting the stable system (Cycle 14) energy values recorded in Table 6 into temperatures in Kelvin by using the S-B equation, shows that the Lit side power intensity flux converts into a day time air temperature of -29.5...