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.

  • CrinterScaked@sh.itjust.works
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    10 months ago

    Black body radiation was my thought as well. It may not be the average including the inner layers, but it’s the average at the crust. About -1°F according to Wikipedia.

    To add to this, is probably hard because the composition of the interior of the earth is a lot of guesswork. We can only directly observe how much heat is coming out of it.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal_history_of_Earth