This is part 3 of a series on defining temperature. In part one I covered various temperature definitions used and pointed out that “temperature,” unmodified is only a measurement of an emergent statistical property with little meaning beyond that. It is important in physics and daily life, but not a primitive well defined property like mass or energy.
In part two I covered kinetic temperature, which is “what we measure with a thermometer” (Schroeder, 2000). In the original X discussion that spurred me to write these posts, some argued that the “real” definition of “temperature” was the thermodynamic equilibrium temperature. Of course this is not true. For nearly everyone on Earth, thermometers measure temperature…
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Press releases
- Bipolar Penguins: Thriving on Tuesday, Dying on Wednesday, Climate Change Blamed for Both
- Climate change not the only blame for bushfire crisis
- US September “Heat” Was No Record…Many Records Set Decades Ago
- The Great Trump-driven Pre-Referendum Pipeline/Infrastructure Build Out: great to see but tread wisely
- Why China Cares About Data Centers in Arkansas
Alarmism Archives
- US September “Heat” Was No Record…Many Records Set Decades Ago
- Fiji Pre COP31 Climate Conference Panic: “is anyone listening?”
- Tom Cruise to Play an Oil Executive in a New Global Warming Movie
- New York’s Climate Circus: Same Clowns, Emptier Promises
- Doom Never Goes Out of Fashion: The Problem With PIK’s “Planetary Health Check”
Sea level Archives
- Throwing the baby out and keeping the bathwater, at NOAA
- New Study: The Antarctic Ice Sheet Gained Mass From 2020-2024 Due To Staggering Snow And Ice Accumulation
- New Study: Antarctic Ice Melt Has Contributed Less Than 1 Centimeter To Sea Level Rise In The Last 30 Years
- Technical Note on the Possible Variation in Sea Level Rise “Accelerations” over the Next 5 Years
- Pacific Climate Games
