Warm bloodedness and climate

摘要

A recent series of letters in 'Your Say' (Dec 2014/Jan 2015) caught my eye and interest as a mathematical physical chemist. The comments of Richard Corbett, Ronald Clarke and Tony Zipper span a wide area, but those of RonaLd Clarke show not even a nod to much past work that is relevant. For example, his simplistic comments about the 'Laws of thermodynamics' applied to an 'object' are anything but a 'logical application of the laws of thermodynamics'. When the 'object' is a warm-blooded animal as he is discussing, he is completely wrong.