Sounds like a stupidly easy question to find out with a quick internet search, but it’s not.

I don’t want to know the average surface temperature, or the average ocean surface water temperature, or read another article about climate change.
But that’s all I found in the past hour.

I’d like to know the average temperature of all molecules that comprise earth, or a best guess scientific estimate.

  • morphballganon@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    11 months ago

    So that figure is just the mantle, no core or surface? I agree it would be near the top, if not above. The heat from the core would easily offset the loss of heat from including the surface.

    • olorin99@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      11 months ago

      Yeah, the volume of earth is <1% the crust, ~84% the mantle and ~15% the core. So the surface temperature has basically no impact on average temperature.