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Originally Posted by oil pan 4
That's mechanical engineering. It's a well established religion, based around numbers, math and assigning values to abstract equations.
The opposite of global warming.
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The runaway global warming is the 'sum of all fears' for climatologists.
The albedo effect is part of that mechanism.
It is based upon optical reflection and the latent heat of fusion of water,a very well understood,easily measured value,measure independently,with the same results,so as to become a 'benchmark'.
All refrigeration and air conditioning engineers and contractors are intimately familiar with this metric.
Recall that a 'ton' of cooling refers to the amount of heat transferred when a ton of ice melts,12,000 Btu.
Religion differs from science-based technology and engineering,in that religion cannot be 'proven',in a scientific experiment,whereas scientific experiments can be duplicated again and again,with identical results.
Theoretical mathematics push the limits of abstraction,but can be duplicated in result.
Applied mathematics is what scientists and engineers use.
You can't have science without mathematics.They're mutually inclusive.
Like foam rubber,no one was looking for global warming at the time it was discovered.It's roots are in astronomy and spectral analysis of light from celestial bodies.