I don't know which bits of education you missed out on, but you seem extremely short on common sense, and unable to find even the most basic background information.
Let's look at what's going on here:
Natural radioactivity inside the earth is constantly releasing heat. This heat is conducted and advected towards the surface and results in plate tectonics, volcanoes, earthquakes and all that stuff.
The amount of energy is equivalent to ~80 milliWatts per square metre of the planet's surface.
This amounts to ~4*10^13 Watts - 40 TerraWatts.
At the same time, Natural sunlight amounts to 1350 Watts per sguare meter in direct sun. Integrated across the disc of the Earth, this amounts to 1.7*10^17 Watts - 170 petaWatts (or 0.17 exaWatts [I just mentioned that because I have never used an exa- prefix in my life, and wanted to do it, just for fun].
The ratio of sunlight to internal radiogenic heating is ~4,220. i.e. ALL of earth's radioactivity is 0.024% of sunlight.
Atmospheric temperature is determined by energy input, regardless of whether that energu is thermal, nuclear, radiative, armwaving, or whatever. So ALL of the radioactivity on Earth is worth 0.024% of sunlight, which warms us to ~280K. Due to Stefan's Law on black body radiation, temperature is related to the 1/4 power of energy, the effect of this radiation is worth 0.017 degrees to the air temperature outside.
In other words, diddly squit.
AND, the amount of man-made radiogenic material is a tiny fraction of all that natural stuff, so it's worth, IMHO, "3/8 of 5/6 of bugger all"!
Now please stop spamming this group with your stupid comments about radioactivity, heat, and atmospheric loss.
Go take an evening class in Physics, read a book more recent than 1964, and learn to look things up on the internet, work an excel spreadsheet, and use scientific notation for numbers with more than 5 or 6 zeroes in them.
Or better still, go and troll your spam somewhere else.
Space/Science » in reply to Reply to R.L. in case you missed it
YOU missed it, Johannes
