Websites and resources used in the preparation of this file:

• CNRS website: Dossier Climat, systèmes et facteurs climatiques, effet de serre. Mme Marie-Antoinette Mélières
• BRGM website: Empreintes paléothermiques du sous-sol site du BRGM Mr Laurent Guillou-Frottier
• IFEN website: Les indices du réchauffement climatique, Mr Moamedou Ba
• CERMA website: Centre de recherche méthodologique d’architecture Dossier Théorie solaire
• planet-terre.ens-lyon.fr website
• Agence Internationale de l’Energie website
• Wikipedia website
• National Climatic Data Center website
• University Corporation for Atmospheric Research website

Physics data used in the calculations

Surface of the Earth	5.10 x E 14 [m²]
Power of the sun	3.826 x E 26 [W]
Solar power received by the planet	1.744 x E 17 [W]
Solar power absorbed and rejected by the planet	1.2 x E 17 [W]
Geothermal power	2.55 x E 13 [W]
Worldwide human production and consumption of energy in 2008	1.5 x E 13 [W]

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