QUESTION

Aside from climate change driven by the greenhouse effect of the atmosphere, can geological heat from underneath the Earth’s crust in any way emit enough heat to the surface to cause warming?

ANSWER

The Paleo data show many examples of global warming and climate change as creations of the Earth’s own geological events. The Mid Miocene warming and the Paleocene Eocene Thermal Maximum are two notable examples where the earth warmed itself with its own geological forces.

LINKS TO CITED POSTS

#1: MID MIOCENE WARMING: LINK: https://tambonthongchai.com/2019/01/17/miocene/

#2: PALEOCENE EOCENE THERMAL MAXIMUM: LINK: https://tambonthongchai.com/2020/03/20/an-atmosphere-bias-part-2/

A SUMMARY OF THE ATMOSPHERE BIAS ISSUE

LINK: https://tambonthongchai.com/2021/11/23/summary-of-the-atmosphere-bias-issue/

ABSTRACT:

WE PROPOSE THAT THE THEORY OF ANTHROPOGENIC GLOBAL WARMING AND CLIMATE CHANGE IS VERY SPECIFICALLY AN ATMOSPHERIC ISSUE WHERE THE THEORY IS THAT HUMANS BURNING FOSSIL FUELS INCREASE ATMOSPHERIC CO2 CONCENTRATION AND THAT THE GREENHOUSE EFFECT OF CO2 IMPLIES THAT RISING ATMOSPHERIC CO2 CONCENTRATION CREATES RISING GLOBAL MEAN SURFACE TEMPERATURE (GMST) AND THAT RISING GMST IS UNDERSTOOD AS GLOBAL WARMING. THIS THEORY FROM TOP TO BOTTOM IS A PURELY ATMOSPHERIC PHENOMENON. THE ATMOSPHERE BIAS ISSUE IN THIS CONTEXT IS THE INTERPRETATATION OF THIS PHENOMENON IN TERMS OF THE HARMFUL IMPACTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE IN SITUATIONS WHERE A ROLE OF THE ATMOSPHERE IS NOT POSSIBLE.