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SIR JOSEPH LARMOR in his letter in NATURE of June 3 concludes that because the temperature of the earth's surface has never changed by 50° C. in excess or defect of its present value since the commencement of organic evolution—as that would have destroyed all organic life—the effective temperature of the solar radiating surface cannot have changed from its present mean value, 6,000° K., by 1,000° in excess or defect.
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SIMPSON, G. The Astronomical Radiative Stability. Nature 131, 875–876 (1933). https://doi.org/10.1038/131875a0
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