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How does the surface of the earth cool?

Updated: 8/10/2023
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13y ago

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The sun can't really cool down at all mainly because there is too much heat and pressure to make it cool down. The sun also has barely an atmosphere because the heat burned most of it off. So basically, you can't cool off the sun for it will only heat up all over again.

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14y ago

Earth will cool in hundreds of millions, maybe even billions of years. The earth stays hot because of the radioactive elements at the earth's core, which are insulated by the existing rock or earth. The insulation of the radioactive elements retains heat generated by them, thus melting the rock. The heat is generated by the attenuation of radiation in the material (earth). The earth will cool when the radioactive elements in the earth exceed their half- lives several times and will no longer generate heat. There is no way any person on earth can cool the core any faster than it would by itself, if that is what you're asking.

Also, you don't want the earth's core to cool because then the outer core would cease to remain liquid and so there would no longer be any spinning metal in the core that creates the electromagnetic field we so know and love that protects us from solar, not to mention cosmic, radiation.

Hopefully, that is what you meant by your question.

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11y ago
  • A massive volcanic explosion that darkens the skies for years.
  • A huge meteor striking the earth and sending up clouds of dust to do the same thing.

These are the only things that will cool the earth greatly.

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12y ago

If there was more carbon dioxide being taken out of the atmosphere than is going in, then our enhanced greenhouse effect would slow and the earth would be cooler. The only way this can happen is if we stop burning fossil fuels and plant more forests.

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13y ago

Well, the place close to the equator are cooler because they are closer to the equator. Also, the equator is cooler.

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13y ago

Takes a cold shower. OR radiant heat leaks out of its atmosphere into the universe.

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13y ago

deforestation

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