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Sportsfan2111 · **on:** Jul 14, 2018

If the Sun increased its radiative output:

A) the earth would undergo an uncontrollable greenhouse effect.
B) the earth would eventually reach a higher equilibrium temperature.
C) the amount of longwave energy radiated from Earth's surface would decrease.
D) the earth would have a surplus of incoming radiation energy compared to outgoing radiation energy until the Sun finally burned itself out.

Question 2

Measuring Earth's equilibrium temperature without an atmosphere:

A) is easily done using Wien's law.
B) is best done assuming the earth is a flat disk.
C) is complicated by uncertainty over the value of the earth's albedo.
D) can be done only by assuming the earth does not approximate a black body.