On Tuesday, August 11, 2015 at 10:52:52 AM UTC-4, Alastair wrote:

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Pictet demonstrated that the reflection of cold can occur, as did others before him.

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"Useful idiots need to be shown the facts ... . Until then, rational people can have fun laughing at their ignorance."

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And everyone after Pictet showed that it does not. I linked a couple of days ago in a different thread to one such example. Did you not read it? Or did confirmation bias not allow you to?

Here it is again:

http://www2.ups.edu/physics/faculty/evans/Pictet's%20experiment.pdf

One-line summary:

"The thermometer, initially at room temperature, now radiates away more energy than it absorbs, and so suffers a decrease in temperature."

From: "Pictet's experiment: The apparent radiation and reflection of cold"
James Evans, Department of Physics, University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, Washington 98416
Brian Popp, Department of Physics FM-15, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195

Here's another quote for you: "The first principle is that you must not fool yourself - and you are the easiest person to fool." Richard P. Feynman.

Stephen.