You know, Earth is mostly a molten planet, with a very, very thin crust upon which we float. How come no one ever discusses the heat radiation from within? It’s got to be variable.
“...could...”
Then, too, could not.
It doesn’t matter that the core of the planet is molten, what matters is that cow farts are killing us!
/greenie rant
If they can’t measure it, it doesn’t exist.
Because it is orders of magnitude less than the heat from the sun
It’s got to be variable.
Not as variable as the sun.
According to Al Gore, the interior of the planet is hot — millions of degrees hot!
RE: “You know, Earth is mostly a molten planet, with a very, very thin crust upon which we float. How come no one ever discusses the heat radiation from within?”
Although the interior of the Earth is incredibly hot, very little of that heat makes it to the surface.
Most of that energy is consumed by “continental drift,” in other words, the motion of the tectonic plates under the great land masses at Earth’s surface.
The sun radiates about 350 watts per square meter onto the surface of the Earth.
Energy that travels from the Earth’s core to the Earth’s surface is actually less than 1 watt.