© Charles Chandler

 

Global warming has been in the news a lot in the last several years, and the issue is presented to the general public as if anthropomorphic warming is scientifically proven, with 100% of the scientific community fully on board. The truth is that in the US alone, 31,487 scientists (9,029 with PhDs) got so pissed off at being told that they were on board that they signed a petition insisting that "there is no convincing scientific evidence that human release of carbon dioxide, methane, or other greenhouse gases is causing or will, in the foreseeable future, cause catastrophic heating of the Earth's atmosphere and disruption of the Earth's climate." But nobody told the reporters, and the issue is still being presented as scientific fact.

 

One of the big problems in assessing the effects of increased CO₂ levels is that we actually don't know what regulates the Earth's temperature. It is hotter than it has a right to be just due to solar radiation, so there is some sort of internal heat source. We just don't know what that is.

 

The current-free double-layer (CFDL) model of the Earth has interesting implications for this issue. The interior of the Earth below the Moho is under sufficient pressure to separate charges, due to electron degeneracy pressure. Thus the upper mantle is positively charged due to the expulsion of electrons, and the crust is negatively charged due to acceptance of those electrons. Fluctuations in pressure due to tidal forces shift the boundary between these two double-layers, driving electric currents. (So the CFDLs are not entirely current-free — the boundary between the double-layers is electrically active.) When the tidal forces relax, producing a low tide, pressure at depth is increased, and more electrons are expelled. At high tide, the pressure decreases, allowing those electrons to flow back in. With two floods and two ebbs per day, that's 4 surges of electric current, and the ohmic heating at this boundary makes the Moho anomalously hot. The crust can then slide around effortlessly on this frictionless supercritical fluid, with the resulting plate collisions, mountain-building, etc. There is also reason to believe that a similar arrangement of charged double-layers exists at the boundary between the core and the lower mantle. Under even higher pressures in the core, a higher degree of ionization is achieved, making it even more positively charged. Electrons expelled from the core congregate in a thin layer at the bottom of the mantle, and fluctuations in pressure drive electric currents across the boundary. Evidence of a temperature anomaly can be found in the refraction of seismic waves, and in the fact that the core rotates at a different rate from the mantle, which would be quite impossible if they were not separated by a frictionless boundary.

 

So there are 4 charged double-layers: a positive core, a negative lower mantle, a positive upper mantle, and a negative crust. And the 2 most distinct boundaries are at the top of the core, and at the top of the mantle, where ohmic heating generates temperature anomalies. Away from those boundaries, the charged double-layers should actually be anomalously cool, because the electric force removes degrees of freedom from charged particles, thereby reducing the temperature.

 

Thus the internal heat source is electric currents at the boundaries between charged double-layers. And the prime mover is tidal forces, which alter the pressure, forcing the expulsion and subsequent re-uptake of electrons. This means that the energy generated from tidal forces has been grossly underestimated. We know that crustal deformation due to tides creates heat, but it's only 0.01% of the surface energy budget, since most of the force is absorbed by elastic strain, which is non-lossy (i.e., no thermalization if the crust doesn't fracture). But that only acknowledges heat from flexing the crust — it does not measure heat from electric currents in the Moho due to fluctuations in pressure at depth. To get the energy budget right, we have to take that into account. And the source of that internal heat is not internal to the Earth — the energy is coming from tidal forces. And I've demonstrated that tidal forces defy the laws of gravity, while obeying all of the laws of electrostatics. The Earth, Moon, & Sun are net negative bodies surrounded by positively charged plasma sheaths, with concentrations of positive plasma between them. The net negative bodies are attracted to their shared positive charge, and the responses to this attraction obey the laws of induction, while clearly defying the laws of gravity.

 

This means that disruptions in the interplanetary medium, which might alter the concentration of positive plasma in these sheaths, have significant effects on tidal forces, and thus on ohmic heating in the Moho. This will affect surface temperatures, weather, earthquakes, volcanoes, and everything else defined by the characteristics of these CFDLs.