Message from discussion What if our sun disappeared?

From: r...@access1.digex.net (Robert Grumbine)
Subject: Re: What if our sun disappeared?
Date: 1996/01/30
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In article <4ei991$...@news2.acs.oakland.edu>,
Joseph Bartlo <jbar...@ouchem.chem.oakland.edu> wrote:
>I am not proposing such a thing will ever happen, but am curious if any
>climate modelers 'out there' have ever removed solar energy from their
>model to see what might result.  How long would life exist on our planet
>(my guess is about 2 weeks for most things), what kinds of weather
>systems and storms may that cause, etc.?

  Hunt, B. G.,  On the death of the atmosphere, J. Geophysical Research,
81, 3677-3687, 1976.

  The experiment ran out to day 50, I think.  The final global temperature
was surprisingly (to me) warm, ca. 190 K or so.  Storm activity 
declined, but not as much as I'd have thought.  It is a most interesting
paper.  Do check it out.


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Bob Grumbine r...@access.digex.net
Sagredo (Galileo Galilei) "You present these recondite matters with too much 
evidence and ease; this great facility makes them less appreciated than they 
would be had they been presented in a more abstruse manner." Two New Sciences