Al Gore: Earth's Interior 'Extremely Hot, Several Million Degrees'

There is absolutely nothing wrong or incorrect about what Al Gore says in that interview.

There are in fact pilot plants doing just what he is talking about.

There is a temperature gradient from the surface of the earth to the core and it is of sufficiently large magnitude near the surface to be exploitable for electricity generation.

These idiotic threads are the last refuge of the shockingly scientifically illiterate.
 
Quote from dcraig:

There is absolutely nothing wrong or incorrect about what Al Gore says in that interview.

There are in fact pilot plants doing just what he is talking about.

There is a temperature gradient from the surface of the earth to the core and it is of sufficiently large magnitude near the surface to be exploitable for electricity generation.

These idiotic threads are the last refuge of the shockingly scientifically illiterate.

This thread is not about geothermal, it's about jumping on a misstatement as an opportunity to bash.
 
Quote from dcraig:

There is absolutely nothing wrong or incorrect about what Al Gore says in that interview.

There are in fact pilot plants doing just what he is talking about.

There is a temperature gradient from the surface of the earth to the core and it is of sufficiently large magnitude near the surface to be exploitable for electricity generation.

These idiotic threads are the last refuge of the shockingly scientifically illiterate.

Well, that's incorrect. Gore's done a lot of good raising worldwide awareness of GW. But he should have said "thousands of degrees", not millions.

I agree with everything else you said.

http://hypertextbook.com/facts/1999/PhillipChan.shtml
No one can really explore the earths interior. Scientist obtain information about the characteristics of the earth's interior by studying earthquake records. Earthquake waves help scientists figure out the distances to each of the section of the earth's interior. The Earth can be divided into three large sections: the mantle, inner core, and outer core. The inner core is at the center of the earth. The pressure and temperature of the earth increases as one moves closer to the center. First comes the mantle, this is a layer that is bellow the crust of the earth. This is said to go down 2,900 kilometers; it's temperature is about 870 degrees Celsius. The outer core has a very high temperature and ranges from about 4,400 degrees Celsius to about 6,100 degrees Celsius. The outer core beginnings where the mantle stops and it extends further down to the center 2,250 kilometers. The inner core is about 6,400 kilometers below the earths surface. the temperature at the inner core of the earth is at the high is about 7,000 degrees Celsius. But compared with the sun the earth's temperature at the center of the earth is only about the outer reign of the sun
 

Quote from dcraig:

There is absolutely nothing wrong or incorrect about what Al Gore says in that interview...
These idiotic threads are the last refuge of the shockingly scientifically illiterate.
Looks like the highest estimate for earth's core temp is just over 13,000 deg F.

Big Al was only off by several million degrees.

Not all that bad considering he's "shockingly scientifically illiterate".
 
LMAO! Look at all the genius libtards coming out of the woodwork to defend their idol on a flat out ludicrous statement. The temp at the surface of the Sun isn't even millions of degrees.

Guess Algore could say that temps on the surface of the Earth has risen trillions of degrees and these bozos would agree.

This bunch of retards should well demonstrate just how damn stupid liberalism really is.
 
Quote from jficquette:

Gore got into Harvard because of his dick sucking father. He said Millions because he meant it. Another dumbass democrat.

Bush got an MBA, Gore got a shitty little degree in government.

MBA is a lazy man's degree. MBA Is a joke among graduate degrees. Many people wonder out loud whether it is necessary at all. People with JDs (lawyers) can be CEOs but people with MBAs can't be lawyers (unless they get a jd too)


N.B Gore's mistake was not on the essence of the subject but on scale. Earth's core is extremely hot, so hot we can't drill to it because it would melt any metal or alloy currently known, it is not millions of degrees but is thousands. Was he wrong? yes, but it would have been a bigger mistake to say "earth's core is very cold because it is dark out there". I would expect Sarah Palin to say something like that.
 
Quote from TGregg:

LMAO! Look at all the genius libtards coming out of the woodwork to defend their idol on a flat out ludicrous statement. The temp at the surface of the Sun isn't even millions of degrees.

Guess Algore could say that temps on the surface of the Earth has risen trillions of degrees and these bozos would agree.

This bunch of retards should well demonstrate just how damn stupid liberalism really is.

I question whether posting a lot in this Politics and Religon Forum is good for you. You post is insulting and has some sweeping and ridiculous generalisations. I'll also include Lucrum in this, for his/her getting so worked up about Gore's obvious mis-statement.

If this was real-life, and you asked Gore for a clarification, you know he'd say that he simply mis-spoke and meant thousands-but with being on stage, or busy/distracted/thinking the next thing to say, said the wrong thing. That's the mature outcome. Instead, you do something you'd never do IRL, laugh and insult online in an immature way someone who has done a heck of a lot of good for the US over the years, much more than you will ever do.

Note: I have specifically focused on your post, not yourself. You came with the insults-bozos, libtards. Maybe you need to change this pattern of clinging to your beliefs and insulting all others.

Just so you know, I usually agree with conservatives on politics and finance, but tend not to as regards the environment and human mis-management of it. This doesn't mean that any other group is perfectly right either. There's a lot to be said for working through issues by yourself, finding how things are concurrently right and wrong.
 
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