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> The sun is no where near that unstable. I didn't say the sun was - this calculation is past the point of radiation and already in Watt being received by Eart
by quink 12y ago
> The sun is no where near that unstable.
I didn't say the sun was - this calculation is past the point of radiation and already in Watt being received by Earth. And I'm pretty sure those Watt are linearly (edit: or at least somewhat like it, given enough time) related to temperature.
Edit: parent had a good point (which may or may not have been edited out) about how radiation from the sun - Black body radiation - is power to the fourth away from translating into temperature. Which, though, I don't think is too relevant here.
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- Retric 12y agoSorry, had a bad edit. I am going to skip out on this discussion, but I really suggest you do some reading on Thermodynamics. It's complex and most people really mess up when talking about it.
- quink 12y agoIf by that you mean that the outbound radiation of Earth will increase to provide negative feedback due to black-body radiation, then that's absolutely right. T^4 in fact, like you said. But if the greenhouse gas levels are coming up 50% higher than they ever were just a few hundred years ago... anyway, I shan't talk about it any more. It is too complex to do justice here.