Thomas Palm wrote:
"a_plutonium" wrote in
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Thomas Palm wrote:

The magnetic field is generated far down in the Earth, and I see no
way it could be affected by global warming on the surface.

Neither did I. However, I did not think much about it, but as volcanic
activity is increasing the world over, I must delve into this
possibility fully.

I wonder if lightning is a direct link between Global Warming and
Volcanoes.

Volcanos are random processes and there will be fluctuations in the number
of eruptions. I don't think you can say there is a connection with global
warming, even if raising sea levels could at least in principle cause extra
eruptions (and earthquakes).

Could it be that lightning bolts and lightning flashes increases as
Global Warming increases? Has any measured whether lightning has been
increasing in the past century? And does increase in carbon dioxide in
the atmosphere not only increase temperature but increases the
formation of lightning bolts?

And lightning would then discharge into the ground and affect Earth's
magnetic field.

Again, effects on the surface won't change the magnetic field that is
generated deep in the floating outer core of the Earth.

But electricity and magnetism affect surfaces more than they affect
interiors-- the Faraday cage effect. And current flows on the surface.
So this my be important for the Earth's core and surface.

Does anyone know if lightning has been increasing in frequency
worldwide for the past 100 years or whether it has been decreasing, or
stayed relatively the same amount? One way to evaluate this question is
to take a test plot such as a 100 km circle of Florida and whether
lightning frequency has changed over time.

We definitely know temperatures have increased in the past 100 years
due to global warming. And we definitely can say volcano eruptions have
been steadily increasing during the past 100 years. But whether
lightning has increased, decreased or stayed fairly constant is unknown
to me.

If I can find some data that correlates either an increase or decrease
in lightning and correlates with rising temperatures and rising volcano
activity, then I may have found a direct link between global warming
and a future of increasing volcanic activity.

P.S. how would the above make sense over long geological time? It makes
sense in that Earth is so well protective of life that whenever one
important parameter gets to far out of control like temperature then
another parameter such as lightning will trigger more volcanoes to spew
sulfur dioxide which cools Earth. Life has been on Earth for almost 5
billion years and if Earth were not resilient and flexible, then life
would have been probably snuffed out long ago, but instead it has been
on Earth for almost 5 billion years. So the fact that life on Earth has
existed for so long is testimony that whenever one parameter gets too
far out of line, another parameter pops up to level it off and realign
the entire system. (Note: this is not a Gaia explanation, but an
explanation that our planet is in a equilibrium state of its important
parameters and life on planets to live for 5 billion years require such
an equilibrium system)

Archimedes Plutonium
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whole entire Universe is just one big atom
where dots of the electron-dot-cloud are galaxies