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It's Getting Hotter!
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So much has been written about the present period of global warming. But the full picture has not been presented. Yes, greenhouse gases and solar activity feature in the current debate, but not what’s happening deep in the core of planet earth where massive amounts of energy keep most of the inner globe molten whilst we warily tread on the thin outer solid crust. Only fusion reactions could create a temperature of 6000C at the centre of the earth, and up to 1700C just a few miles beneath our feet. However, fusion reactions with lighter elements, such as two carbons forming a magnesium, would blow the globe asunder. Hence balancing fusion reactions that absorb more energy than they produce are required. Such reactions are feasible with the heavier elements from iron onwards. |
The theory proposes that lava, which contains elements such as aluminium, silica, sulphur, magnesium and phosphorus, is made by fusion reactions using lighter elements. Some of the massive amounts of energy released are then used to create the heavier, less prevalent elements that are found in the earth’s crust.
The universe and our world is governed by cycles and balancing equilibria. At the centre of the earth, when the balancing equilibrium between the energy-producing and the energy-absorbing fusion reactions shift, then the twenty two hotspots of volcanic activity on the surface of the earth become either quiescent or active.
We are, at present, undergoing a period of volcanic activity. The recent Tsunami resulted from massive amounts of molten rock or magma bursting through the sea bed. At Reunion island volcanic activity is happening right now. In Ecuador, too, volcanoes are becoming active, whilst the earth moved even in Folkestone, my childhood home.
All this energy from deep within the core is being released in a period when global warming is occurring.
Seems to me that this should be part of the explanation as to why we are heating up and why ‘El Ninos’ are more readily occurring…
Bob Arthy
Resource: Climate and Weather
