• humanspiral@lemmy.ca
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    14 days ago

    I believe we’d still be warm for those 8 minutes. We have an 8 minute grace period before having to do anything, then enough time to add sweaters faster than earth cools.

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      14 days ago

      I was forced to calculate the black body temperature and radiation for the Earth, back in college by hand.

      I decided for fun to zero out the sun from the equation to see what would happen.

      My math came out to about -32°C average surface temperature.

      Earth would become an ice planet.

      I think you’d uh, need a bit more than a sweater in those conditions 😅

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        14 days ago

        It’s sweaters all the way down. You have time to order from China shipped by boat before -32C happens. You’re just being a “save the sun” hippy climate alarmist /s. Energy company shareholders would benefit from high demand, so saving the sun is just selfish of you :P