thermal expansion says:

From what I know of physics, if you take a mass and heat it up it will expand. The inner core of our planet seems to be pretty damn hot and has provided lots of heat to this planet for a long time.

This heating would also tend to melt a lot of ice from polar ice caps as this happened over time, creating more liquid water to form oceans.

It’s also possible that a lot of our land mass was there but entirely covered with water, hence the huge limestone deposits from sea creatures in the middle of the mid-west. Picturing our maintain ranges as the only thing above water in the early days.

Possible that this has some credibility. Also possible that it’s crap also. This is what science is for. Hypothesis and test.

cgp says:

On the other other hand what causes plates to move?
Why is the pacific plate moving towards the asian?

cgp says:

I suppose the dope factor was this increase in volume not shown in the
video.

For con jobs there is always the ‘factor’, that when missed indicates you got a dope hooked.

cgp says:

eh which it is what I worked through. It is called logical thinking out loud.
Not name calling, not just statements of derision. pros and cons, pros and cons baby.

bobbo, there's been a pattern established to these things says:

cgp==not to argue, but sorry–your post does not demonstrate any “logic” at all and is merely the statement of erroneous facts and a bunch of irrelevant questions.

You brought the same power to our discussion of AGW.

What DO you know anything about?

cgp says:

booboo, well then counterpointer each and every mistake.

Gasbag says:

So the Earth is one big balloon? Come on

Taxed Enough Already Dude says:

No need to worry about rising oceans…Either gravity is decreasing, allowing the planet to expand, or hell is filling up with progressives, causing bloat.

bobbo, there's been a pattern established to these things says:

#53–cgp==evidently you accept you asked a bunch of irrelevant questions but you want it repeated that you suggested the Earth does expand BECAUSE of the fission going on at the core of the Earth. I gave you a link to the cause of the Earth’s inner heat and its mostly radioactive decay NOT fission. Now you challenge me to “counterpoint each and every mistake.”

Son–what you’ve already been told is sufficient. You should be admitting your error and enter into a phase of quiet reflection. Education regardless of its source is not your driving value.

But its so easy to do, let’s see what we have:

# 40 cgp said, on September 12th, 2011 at 1:51 pm

I like it./// Hopeful start. I was expecting an insightful comment on the scientific/logical underpinnings of the theory that were laughably or cleverly distorted.

Just as wacky as cosmic rays influencing weather. //// Oops–cosmic rays do influence weather. Nothing wacky about it. You appear to be taking the video in hook, line, and sinker. Is this a set up for a double switchback?

Well actually it is sun magnetic weather influencing cosmic rays. /// –Yes. Poorly constructed follow on as the issue is the Earths weather which as you construct is still wacky.

Still wacky by the IPCC. /// As you have just erroneously confirmed.

What could be the volume increaser here? /// Good, back to potentially good stuff.

Did you not know that the earths interior is a massive fission reactor? /// Oh–a BIG swing and a miss. I know that it is not. You have moved from being lazy, ambiguous, and flippant to just a high school drop out high on comic books.

That is the source of geological heat. /// And there you put the nail into your coffin. Sad. Not that hard to do. We hear about the fusion process inside stars, including our sun, all the time. Don’t hear all that often about our own Earth’s source of heat. And magma flowing out of the earth and pictures of the molten core do “look like” pictures of the sun. I can see the road to confusion here. Comic book science will do that to you. You have to do more than look at the pictures.

And guess what, fission increases molecule count!!!!! /// Yes, E = mc2. Energy turning into Mass. But what do you think would happen with all those Atom Bombs going off at the core of the Earth? Earthquakes you say??? Ha, ha===yes indeedie.

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Logic: Reasoning conducted or assessed according to strict principles of validity. The easiest example being the “if-then” formulation of reasoning by assumption and deduction. You show none of this.

As stated: just the rendition of erroneous objective statements all, as in Each One except for fission results in the formation of particles which would be relevant only if fusion was taking place, and its not.

No logic. No accurate facts.

and your best “considered” response is?

cgp says:

ohh bobbo now I see why you shouldn’t counterpoint.
Go back to being dogmatic.

fission splits atoms, you thus get two thingys separated in space ie a doubling in volume (recall the nucleus is an orange on a football field). But the fissiles are only concentrated in 0.0000001 kg per kg of mantle, so it has no volumatic increase.

I again point out the ‘dope factor’, the trick pulled as those ocean surfaces were said to come from expanding volume of sphere., which requires on order of a doubling in volume. In the video the size increase of the earth looked like about 5 per cent.