A Mathematician's Response to a Question

[MostlyHarmless]

In the thread Backradiation is Unphysical because it is Unstable on Claes Johnson's blog, I posed a question for him:

Quote:MostlyHarmless said

Quote:Claes Johnson said

You say yourself that there is a net flow from hot to cold, and thus we agree. To say that a cold body is warming a hot body is misleading
since no net heat is transported from the cold to the hot. I don't understand why you get so upset over these fundamenta.

"To say that a cold body is warming a hot body is misleading"

But WHO has said that? Kiehl & Trenberth don't.

9 juli 2010 01.09


Claes Johnson said

OK, fine then.
9 juli 2010 03.05