“…In this context, the average surface temperature of our planet is mainly controlled by its albedo and the atmospheric greenhouse effect (Cracknell and Varotsos, 1994, 2007aVarotsos, 2002Varotsos, , 2005aFeretis et al, 2002;Efstathiou et al, 2003; Published by Copernicus Publications on behalf of the European Geosciences Union. Tzanis et al, 2008;Varotsos et al, 2008Varotsos et al, , 2012aChattopadhyay and Chattopadhyay, 2010;Varotsos, 2010, 2013;Xue et al, 2011;de la Fuente et al, 2011). For example, the average Earth surface temperature would be −40 • C if it were frozen entirely and 27 • C if all the ice on its surface were to melt.…”