The Cause of Global Warming - What do Geophysicists Believe?

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Saul Levy


On 7 Nov 2005 19:56:43 -0800, "Eugene Shubert"
wrote:

The greenhouse effect is only one component to global warming.
What is the major factor? You need to read the transcript to the
Nova program called, Venus Unveiled to understand the theory
of planet resurfacing explained there.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/transcripts/2210venus.html
The theory was devised to explain a mystery about the planet
Venus but I believe that it applies to the planet Earth as well.

In short, the theory of planet resurfacing says that a planet like
Venus has a crust (a lithosphere) that is trapping the heat of
the planet's molten core. As the interior of the planet continues
to heat up due to radioactive decay at the core-and an
insufficient loss of heat through the lithosphere-eventually
the surface will become disrupted and it will catastrophically
sink into the interior. And then there will be a period of totally
catastrophic surface volcanism with a time of flame and you
have virtually a complete magma ocean on the entire surface
of the planet. This extracts so much heat from the interior of
the planet that the interior cools off until the point that it is
sufficiently cool that again the planet dies and starts to form
a solid surface, very quiet and peaceful for 500 million years.

"It will look like the planet is totally dead with no volcanism,
earthquakes or other activity of that sort. But it then heats
up in the interior until you're ready for another catastrophe.
As the interior heats up, eventually this process repeats.
The whole surface founders and sinks into the interior and
this episodicidity repeats again."

I believe that we're entering the initial stage of this process
and that the no longer permanently frozen permafrost in the
arctic is a sign of the end of the world. That was another
program. The Earth is heating up from the interior!
http://www.everythingimportant.org/viewtopic.php?t=1127