Evidence for Deep Geotemperature Rise and Abyssal Ocean Warming Due to “Human‐Induced” Changes to the Earth's Insulation System

Abstract

AbstractUsing an argument approach and a combination of historical, contemporary data sets, we show that the evidence for deep geotemperature rise and abyssal ocean warming due to “human‐induced” changes to the Earth's insulation system. This warming deepened the soil and sea change and triggered large mass losses from glaciers, resulting in an n times increase in delivery of glacial melt waters, sediment, organic carbon and legacy contaminants to oceans and near certainty of arctic summer ice‐free conditions in the near future. Concomitantly, the energy exchange in the ocean and mechanical structure of the Earth's crust shifted dramatically with declining ice cover and abyssal warming more and more. Everything becomes unpredictable. These changes are unprecedented in nearly a century.