tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1500584444083499721.post5979462652183926490..comments2024-03-24T09:28:42.755+01:00Comments on CJ on Mathematics and Science: The Wise and the Fools of BackradiationClaes Johnsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07411413338950388898noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1500584444083499721.post-3064331008301567682010-07-28T16:36:05.383+02:002010-07-28T16:36:05.383+02:00Could I suggest another experiment for those in co...Could I suggest another experiment for those in cold climates where there is lots of snow. Body temperature is about 37C +/- about 2C. Measure the outside temperature, the air humidity, the wind velocity (for wind chill calculation) and your body temperature, build an igloo, get inside and measure the temperature, the air humidity, and your body temperature regularly. Firstly, you will feel a lot better being out of the wind. Then you should see the temperature of the air increase due to natural convection from your body surface. The air temperature and the igloo internal wall temperature will never reach your body temperature. Your body temperature will not increase beyond your normal temperature. As the body starts to run out of fuel (assuming no food intake) the air temperature will start to fall. How long can you last? I have read upto 5 days. (There was an Australian who lasted 10 days in a cave on MT. Everest but he was eating chocolate. If you have sufficient data which can be replicated and find something interesting (such as heat transfer from the packed snow walls to the body -smile) then you maybe able to publish it at least in those journals(??) that accept papers from alarmists.Peter Bhttp://benkeng.com.aunoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1500584444083499721.post-73291004179847494402010-07-28T13:09:59.261+02:002010-07-28T13:09:59.261+02:00I have lately wondered if there is perhaps somethi...I have lately wondered if there is perhaps something Freudian over Spencers repeted attempts to convince the general public about the reality of the Greenhouse Effect. It should be admitted that he posesses some insight into the subtleties of the atmospheric problem that so far has not passed onto the minds of a majority of both skeptics and alarmists. It is true that at the moment there is no fully developed alternative theory that explains and quantifies the fall in the readings of thermometers as we go higher in altitude, despite that fact that the problem as attracted attention since the middle of the 19th century, if not before. However, I cannot help but to read some tacit message between the lines: "Now I've given you all the clues, please physicists, bring this to an end, I'm to involved to do it myself". If this is the case Roy, then you have my sympathies ;)Andershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15294862989593516422noreply@blogger.com