Question

As more energy from fossil fuels and other fuels is released on Earth, the overall temperature of Earth tends to rise. Discuss how temperature equilibrium explains why Earth’s temperature cannot rise indefinitely.

Answer 1

Answer:

processes are competitive and reach a thermal equilibrium where the absorbed energy is equal to the energy emitted, this is the equilibrium temperature of the planet.

Explanation:

The temperature of planet Earth is due to two main types of process, internal and external.

Internal processes are all chemical processes that occur that release heat into the environment or due to gases that trap heat on the planet, greenhouse effect

External processes is heating due to energy coming from the Sun. This includes direct heating of the surface by the absorption of energy and reflects of energy in different atmospheric layers.

These are the two terms that heat the Earth

In addition there are several processes so the planet loses energy,

* energy radiation to outer space that is a few degrees kelvin, for which there is a permanent emission

* endothermic processes that need to absorb heat to perform, this lowers the temperature of the system

* liquid (water) system that absorbs large amounts of heat to change state and temperature.

These processes are competitive and reach a thermal equilibrium where the absorbed energy is equal to the energy emitted, this is the equilibrium temperature of the planet.

Therefore it is impossible for the temperature to increase indefinitely since the emission would increase by decreasing the value