However increases in greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide and methane are leading to slightly less heat being radiated into space than the amount of energy coming in. Earth's energy flows keep the Earth almost totally in thermodynamic equilibrium so that its temperature remains constant, caused by the Earth's energy budget. The Earth's temperature balance operates on the same principles of radiant heat transfer that human bodies do. This balance is achieved in part by the evaporation of sweat from your body. When the input heat matches the output heat of a person's body, their temperature remains constant which happens to be about 37 ☌. In contrast, when sitting outside on a cold day you will feel "cold" because the heat transferred from the sun to you is less than the radiant heat you are giving off (along with convective heat transfer cooling you off). When sitting outside on a hot day, the feeling of "hot" comes from the radiant heat on your body from the sun being more than the heat emitted due to your internal temperature, so your temperature will increase. The fact that humans are even alive is because radiant heat from the Sun interacts with the Earth, driving important global cycles and allowing life to flourish.
Radiant heat is present in everyone's daily lives. Although the exchange of photons doesn't stop at equilibrium, it cannot be noticed because of the identical temperature of the systems. Interacting systems at different temperatures will do so by the exchange of radiant heat until they reach thermal equilibrium with one another. The photons emitted by these moving charged particles will travel at the speed of light until they hit another particle, which absorbs its energy as kinetic energy. This motion of the particles contributes to the temperature of the object, with objects of "ordinary" temperatures (less than 1000 Kelvin) emitting their radiant heat primarily in the infrared spectrum of light. All substances above absolute zero have thermal energy, which means that the particles contained in them have some form of motion. Radiant heat is a mechanism for heat transfer which does not require a medium in which it propagates (unlike convection and conduction). Radiant heat, also known as thermal radiation, is the transfer of electromagnetic radiation which describes the heat exchange of energy by photons.
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Figure 1: Campfires emit radiant "energy" in the visible and infrared spectrum, which upon interaction with your skin is felt as "radiant heat".
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