Re: [Phys-l] Arguing Points (was Climate skeptic...)

[John Mallinckrodt <ajm@csupomona.edu>]

A would-be Devil's advocate who "picked up" some (uncited) "satellite lore" "at some point" might be well-advised to spend a few moments looking into the matter.  There's a thing called "teh google" that offers instruction in such matters.  For instance:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenhouse_effect

On Feb 19, 2012, at 10:46 AM, brian whatcott wrote:

> Acting as the Devil's Advocate, I suppose I should mention the snippet 
> of satellite lore I picked up at some point:     "A spun object in near 
> Earth orbit stabilizes at about 15 deg C."
>
> If this is true, I would imagine the mean temperature of a spun object 
> like Earth would also stabilize on a mean value of 15 deg C    N'est-ce pas?
>
> If this were the case the warming provided by atmospheric greenhouse 
> effect given as 33 deg C would be questionable??

John Mallinckrodt
Cal Poly Pomona