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Politics : The Environmentalist Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: neolib who wrote (21877)	6/6/2008 3:39:05 PM
From: Thomas A Watson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 36917

What a demonstration of measurement stupidity your question reveals. The programmed or default emissivity would only scale the reading in an relative manner. The instrument only goes down to -76 and space is -400+ The fact I can see air temperatures down to -58 so far my lowest reading shows how changes in dew point temperature, a clear indicator of the tens of thousands of parts of H20 in the air change the observable energy being radiated back to earth from the atmosphere, AKA the green house effect of H20. How many tons of mass is a 5 degree cone looking up seeing. Oh let's tilt it toward the horizon. How many W/m^2 forcing variation am I looking at just from variations in dewpoint??? The MTPRO directron.com only 42 bucks. According to microtemp contact, the emissivity is set to .95 for a little more you can get a programmable emissivity. But they will only scale the readings which does not change the implicit meaning of the observations. metrisinst.com an entire product line.