Earth’s core cooling faster than expected – study — RT World News
Guys, we will likely have to crank UP coal-ire power to STOP the earth from cooling! Great reading from REAL science - not the AGW promoted by charlatans out to make a quick buck! We are looking at "earth's interior caused global cooling"!!!The Earth’s molten interior is cooling faster than expected, which could turn the planet into a cold, inactive world similar to neighbouring Mercury and Mars sooner than previously thought, researchers have warned.
The study, published in the Earth and Planetary Science Letters journal, examined how well bridgmanite – the primary mineral found at the boundary between the planet’s core and mantle layers – conducts heat from the hot, molten core to the surface.
Researchers irradiated a bridgmanite crystal with pulsed lasers on a diamond anvil press to simulate the effects of intense heat and pressure at the boundary. They found that the rate at which the mineral conducted heat was “about 1.5 times higher than assumed.”
The findings mean that the cooling of the Earth’s core is speeding up, and it is “becoming inactive much faster than expected."
The rapid cooling could in turn lead to an earlier slowing-down of processes like plate tectonics, which are related to the movements of large underground slabs composed of the crust and outer mantle layer, and volcanic activity.
