In a separate study, to test the link between physical temperature and emotional state, scientists had subjects hold cold and hot packs and recorded levels of perceived loneliness. (scientificamerican.com)
Since the solar input is being kept constant, the outgoing thermal radiation will have the same (constant) effective temperature, and the TAU = 1 level will continue to coincide with the same physical temperature equal to the effective temperature. (realclimate.org)
... * Why include physical temperature records in the non-dendro «proxy» data, as SM has noted? (climateaudit.org)