Global Warning ? The Earth is Molten Rock, lava trapped by the crust. Tremendous heat from gravity.Not man?

Question

How can we accurately measure the heat of our planet? It is a molten core of heat exploding as volcano's spew lava. Does anyone take this into consideration in talking about global warming ?

Answer 1

Of course they do. The scientists who study global warming know all about this and other natural causes of temperature change, which a few critics (mostly non-scientists) say is all that is happening.

What the climate scientists say is the _additional_ temperature change caused by man (which is what is meant by the term global warming) is serious and too rapid for us to easily adjust our agriculture and relocate our low lying coastal buildings. We won't all die, but it will cost us so much money to deal with it, it will lower our standard of living.

It would be cheaper to work on reducing it. Not easy, but cheaper than dealing with the effects later.

Answer 2

Basically any heat from the interior of the Earth that makes it to the surface escapes into space, just like heat absorbed by the ground during the day does every night. The whole global warming thing comes from the known ability of the atmosphere to slow this escape. It depends on cloud cover, water vapor, carbon dioxide, and other factors. They only thing we know for sure is that carbon dioxide levels have gone up by about a quarter in the last 100 years. That means they will have doubled in less than another 300 years. Actually a lot less since our rate of releasing it is going up and up every year. Sooner or later that will have to catch up with us. If not now, then some day. We are just the ones lucky (?) enough to live at the precise time in history that this realization is first dawning on our awareness.

Answer 3

I believe that no one does, the issue of global warming is a sad mockery of science. The current "science wannabes" in the community would have you believe in evidence based upon faulty analysis techniques and skewd results. The earth's core is not accounted for, the sun's cylclic warm spells aren't accounted for, weather patterns cannot be accurately determined pre-industry nor can a convincing theory be put together about the cataclysmic hurricanes that were supposed to happen this year (remember after Katrina there was the thought of hurricanes getting worse-what happened?, why did we have so few this year?). Also no one seems to be looking at evidence objectively, instead this subject extremely POLITICALY charged by people who have their own interests in mind. Environmentalists say that man is to blame for the warm up-this mindset is arrogant. Conversely, Idustrialists say "What problem?"- this is ignorance.
Be careful when evaluating "data" presented on this subject and remember, just because an article is published in a well respected journal-doesn't mean that it can't be completely wrong-editors are people too...and just last week my research team ran across an article that was less than par.