The paper identifies that thermal conduction does not include the heat of gases vented from within the planet. Correcting for the Enthalpy carried in these vented gases yields estimates of the planet’s internal heat ranging from 300 to 420 TW, nearly ten times the prevailing view. Of course, the vast bulk such heat is dissipated into the ocean waters.
The body of ‘hot’ water in the western Pacific which drives the El Niño is centered directly over the Mariana Trench, only exceeded by the North Pole’s Gakkel Ridge as the closet points to the Earth’s great internal heat engine.
Abstract. The Hydride Earth model predictions of geoneutrino flux and intrinsic Earth heat flux are discussed. The geoneutrino flux predicted by the model can be adjusted to the experimental one.
The predicted intrinsic Earth heat flux is significantly larger than model dependent experimental value obtained under assumption that the main heat transfer mechanism is a thermal conductivity.
“With unusually frigid weather gripping much of the Eastern United States this week, President Trump took to Twitter on Thursday to cast doubt on the reality of climate change, but he appeared unaware of the distinction between weather and climate,” the Times wrote.
The 1955 Cesium Atomic Clock at the National Physical Laboratory, UK. It kept time to a second in 300 years.
A “cesium (-beam) atomic clock” (or “cesium-beam frequency standard”) is a device that uses as a reference the exact frequency of the microwave spectral line emitted by atoms of the metallic element cesium, in particular its isotope of atomic weight 133 (“Cs-133”). The integral of frequency is time, so this frequency, 9,192,631,770 hertz(Hz = cycles/second), provides the fundamental unit of time, which may thus be measured by cesium clocks.
As Penn State climate professor, Michael Mann faces certain defeat in his libel suit against Dr Tim Ball, we examine why climate alarmism needed Mann’s notorious graph to bolster their claims of human-caused climate catastrophe.
If you have ever grabbed the metal handle of pot being heated over a campfire, you have painfully experienced heat transfer. There are four ways in which heat is transferred from one object to another: conduction, radiation, convection and advection.
NASA’s Earth Observatory has provided stunning images of the “temperature anomaly” in the U.S., as much of the country faces the perils of a winter storm dubbed the “bomb cyclone.”
The image above, known as a temperature anomaly map, uses data from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite. The heat maps are land surface tempeatures taken from Dec. 26, 2017-Jan. 2, 2018 and are compared to the eight-day average from 2001 to 2010.
Image copyright: EPAImage caption: Fires globally are in sharp decline
Scientists think they can now better explain the recent surge in methane levels seen in the Earth’s atmosphere. Although only a trace component in the air, CH4 is a ‘greenhouse gas’ and has been rising rapidly since about 2006.
Tropical wetlands and fossil fuels are suspected as major sources – but the sums do not add up.
Image copyright: BEN POTTERImage caption: Excavations at the Upward Sun River archaeological site in Alaska
The 11,500-year-old remains of an infant girl from Alaska have shed new light on the peopling of the Americas. Genetic analysis of the child, allied to other data, indicates she belonged to a previously unknown, ancient group.
Scientists say what they have learnt from her DNA strongly supports the idea that a single wave of migrants moved into the continent from Siberia just over 20,000 years ago.
Climate change alarmists continue to preach the dogma of global warming in a textbook case of cognitive dissonance, despite record low temperatures in different points around the globe. This past week, Buffalo and Watertown, New York, registered their coldest week in recorded weather history.
Does the mystery of how the Sun’s outer corona (a few million degrees) is so much hotter than the Sun’s surface (5800 to 6000 C) have a hitherto unexplained connection to Earth’s climate? Perhaps solar flares are linked to global warming after all. Richard F Cronin explains:
A bombshell study, led by professor Valentina Zharkova of Northumbria University, suggests that in the next few years Earth will enter into a cooling phase that will set off a series of events leading to a mini ice age.
Researchers came to the somewhat alarming conclusions by creating a mathematical model of the sun’s magnetic fields.
Global warming scientists continue struggling to find an explanation for the nearly two-decade-long global warming pause that has taken hold of the planet since the late 1990s.
The most recent temperature spike was due to the natural El Nino event at the equatorial Pacific, and that has disappeared over the last months. Alarmists claim that the global temperature is still 0.5°C above normal, yet it’s been that way for the past 20 years!
It is very cold here in the Eastern US and the President is joking about the lack of global warming. More interesting by far is the fact that there appears to have been no CO2-induced warming in the last 40 years, which is as far back as the satellite measurements go.
Travelling into space in the future may become a challenge because of the amount of debris that’s currently orbiting the planet. It’s believed that there are currently around 600,000 pieces of space junk surrounding the Earth.
They measure anywhere between 1cm to 10cm wide and have become an increasing problem. It’s believed that at least one satellite a year is destroyed by coming into contact with space junk.
Paper Reviewed: Ochoa-Hueso, R., Hughes, J., Delgado-Baquerizo, M., Drake, J.E., Tjoelker, M.G., Piñeiro, J. and Power, S.A. 2017. Rhizosphere-driven increase in nitrogen and phosphorus availability under elevated atmospheric CO2 in a mature Eucalyptus woodland. Plant and Soil416: 283-295.
