Uploaded June 2025 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
From a physics standpoint, the processes occurring in a pot of heated milk are remarkably similar to those now unfolding within our planet.
Internal heating sets in motion a chain reaction of consequences. More heat escapes from deep within the Earth, warming the oceans and increasing the heat and humidity of the atmosphere. This, in turn, leads to a rise in the frequency and magnitude of earthquakes, along with surges in volcanic activity.
Studies of ancient rock and ice layers—which serve as a kind of geological archive—indicate that such periods of intensified geodynamic activity have occurred regularly, approximately every 12,000 years. And every 24,000 years, these catastrophes have become even more powerful. The reason is that, during each 24,000-year cycle, an external cosmic influence delivers several times more energy to the Earth’s core. As a result, the mantle melts more intensely, triggering stronger earthquakes, more violent volcanic eruptions, tsunamis, floods, and hurricanes.
According to geological data, the last such catastrophic period occurred roughly 24,000 years ago. This means we have now entered a phase marked by more destructive consequences than those that occurred in the 12,000-year cycle. It is this deeper, cyclical cause that underlies the increasing number and severity of today’s cataclysms—upon which all other contributing factors, which I will address shortly, are now being superimposed upon.
The next factor—one that amplifies the already formidable 24,000-year cycle—is the breakdown of a critical mechanism in Earth's cooling system: the ocean’s thermoregulatory function. This failure was triggered not merely by plastic pollution but by the degradation of plastic into micro- and nanoplastics. It is nanoplastic, in particular, that constitutes the anthropogenic factor diminishing the thermal conductivity of ocean water.
As a result, the heat that was once efficiently dissipated from the lithospheric plates by cold ocean currents is no longer being removed as effectively.
From a physics standpoint, the processes occurring in a pot of heated milk are remarkably similar to those now unfolding within our planet.
Internal heating sets in motion a chain reaction of consequences. More heat escapes from deep within the Earth, warming the oceans and increasing the heat and humidity of the atmosphere. This, in turn, leads to a rise in the frequency and magnitude of earthquakes, along with surges in volcanic activity.
Studies of ancient rock and ice layers—which serve as a kind of geological archive—indicate that such periods of intensified geodynamic activity have occurred regularly, approximately every 12,000 years. And every 24,000 years, these catastrophes have become even more powerful. The reason is that, during each 24,000-year cycle, an external cosmic influence delivers several times more energy to the Earth’s core. As a result, the mantle melts more intensely, triggering stronger earthquakes, more violent volcanic eruptions, tsunamis, floods, and hurricanes.
According to geological data, the last such catastrophic period occurred roughly 24,000 years ago. This means we have now entered a phase marked by more destructive consequences than those that occurred in the 12,000-year cycle. It is this deeper, cyclical cause that underlies the increasing number and severity of today’s cataclysms—upon which all other contributing factors, which I will address shortly, are now being superimposed upon.
The next factor—one that amplifies the already formidable 24,000-year cycle—is the breakdown of a critical mechanism in Earth's cooling system: the ocean’s thermoregulatory function. This failure was triggered not merely by plastic pollution but by the degradation of plastic into micro- and nanoplastics. It is nanoplastic, in particular, that constitutes the anthropogenic factor diminishing the thermal conductivity of ocean water.
As a result, the heat that was once efficiently dissipated from the lithospheric plates by cold ocean currents is no longer being removed as effectively.
