6. Given the Earth's albedo of A = 0.3, what surface temperature do you predict at...

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6. Given the Earth's albedo of A = 0.3, whatsurface temperature do you predict at equilibrium? Is thisconsistent with the Earth's actual average temperature of 14C? Howdo you explain the discrepancy?

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The formula relates the temperature of a planet to albedo andluminosity of the starwhere StefanBoltzmann constantT Temmperature of the planeta    See Answer
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