Climate Research

Tidal Pumping, Solar Weather, & Geothermal Heat Drive Earth's Weather & Climate

Authors: Richard F. Cronin
Comments: 21 Pages.

The energy of Tidal Pumping, also called Tidal Heating (the gravity fields of major celestial bodies squeezing smaller celestial bodies to drive tectonics and submarine volcanism), plus Geothermal Heat delivered to the plate boundaries of the Ring of Fire have only recently come into awareness. Tidal Pumping produces the El Nino Southern Oscillation. The Solar Maximum (11 year Solar Cycle) produce cosmic rays which induce waves in the polar jet stream. Of the total amount of energy delivered to the surface of Earth, radiation, from whatever source, is greatly overstated. Radiation is the weakest form of heat transfer, only used in paint booths, heat lamps and microwave ovens. Heat is delivered by convection of gases and most importantly, the convective and conductive properties of liquids emitted from the Earth’s interior (55)(56). J.E. Kamis uses the term: "Heated and Chemically Active Fluids" (HCF). (69 — "Plate Climatology"). Exothermic geochemical reactions, plus Ohmic heating from the distortion of Earth’s magnetic field by the solar wind and the Sun’s magnetic field (23)(25)(87) as well as energetic cosmic rays producing aerosols for cloud formation are just recently being acknowledged. Due to Inverse Beta Decay, electrons flow out from the Earth’s inner core and contribute more Ohmic heating. As a result, the Earth has a magnetic field and a net negative charge. Herndon describes how Lower Mantle Decompression drives pressure waves to cause compressive heating at the bottom of the lithosphere (17). Tidal Pumping, Solar Weather, Geothermal Heat (specifically, exothermic geochemical reactions) and the interaction the Sun’s magnetic field with Earth’s magnetic field drive changes in weather and climate. None of this was appreciated by Gilbert Plass (6) and earlier.
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