本文是從地球系統科學的角度作為思考的基礎，也就是將地球的各個圈層視為多個子系統，彼此組合並且一直相互作用。基於對「板塊內地震」與「大規模高強度的火山活動」的觀察，並結合熱柱的觀點，本文認為，由於溫室效應極可能已經微改變了地函的溫度梯度，所以溫室效應所帶來的衝擊不僅止於岩石圈之上的大氣圈、水圈和生物圈，亦對岩石圈之下的地函產生了相當程度的影響。

The viewpoint of this paper is based on earth system science; that is,
every sphere-layer of the earth is considered as a subsystem, and each
subsystem of them is combined to one another and keeping interacting.
According to the observation of intraplate earthquakes, high intensity
volcano activities, and plume phenomenon, the impact of greenhouse
effect is not only on atom sphere, hydrosphere, biosphere, and lithosphere,but also on the mantle, because the influence of greenhouse effect had changed the gradient of temperature in the mantle.