How Hot is the Earth's Core?

Or crust, for that matter.

Well, according to World Book, the core is probably a few thousand degrees, 7,000F or so. Watt's Up With That has more scientific data on that.

Now what you are about to see sure explains a lot if Gore really does believe what he says. And the fact that Newsweek thinks he's the 'thinking man's thinking man' explains a lot, too. None of it very good, but all of it pretty funny.

The Prophet of Green and uber smart Al Gore says:
Two kilometers or so down the interior is extremely hot, several million degrees.

And, he says, sitting comfortably in his suit in the television studio, the crust is also very hot.

Also, they've now figured out how to make drill bits that don't melt in that MILLIONS of DEGREES of HAWT.

And electricity? It is made from turning turbans. That last is unnecessarily nitpicky. Let's stick to the millions of degrees in the earth beneath our feet, which feet are, miraculously, standing imperviously upon that very hot crust.



This man makes 'documentaries' that are shown in schools, and he lobbies for laws that impose heavy burdens on the rest of us while putting hefty supplies of cash in his own pocket. He's not as dumb as he sounds. Or maybe we're just dumber.Derbyshire explains that if the Goracle had the slightest idea what he was talking about, the earth would be a star.

Related news: Cap and Trade as a bill dead in the water, although Obama still could go in through the back door and have the EPA declare CO2 a poison that the need to regulate.

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