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Arctic Ice Melting because of open Volcanoes
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2008/06/arctic_ice_melt_mat_be_due_to.html
June 26, 2008
Arctic ice melt may be due to undersea volcanoes
Thomas Lifson
The Arctic ice that is supposedly melting, stranding those cuddly looking polar bears, just might be
affected by a wave of volcanic eruptions on the ocean floor under the Arctic ice cap. AFP reports on the
recently-documented volcanoes, but oddly makes no mention of the possible effect on apocalyptic
predictions of global warming.
Recent massive volcanoes have risen from the ocean floor deep under the Arctic ice cap, spewing
plumes of fragmented magma into the sea, scientists who filmed the aftermath reported Wednesday.
The eruptions - as big as the one that buried Pompei - took place in 1999 along the Gakkel Ridge, an
underwater mountain chain snaking 1,800 kilometres (1,100 miles) from the northern tip of Greenland to
Siberia.
Scientists suspected even at the time that a simultaneous series of earthquakes were linked to these
volcanic spasms.
But when a team led of scientists led by Robert Sohn of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in
Massachusetts finally got a first-ever glimpse of the ocean floor 4,000 meters (13,000 feet) beneath the
Arctic pack ice, they were astonished.
What they saw was unmistakable evidence of explosive eruptions rather than the gradual secretion of
lava bubbling up from Earth's mantle onto the ocean floor...
Steve Gilbert of Sweetness & Light draws our attention to the report, and makes all the connections
AFP studiously ignores:
Er, is it not possible that these volcanic eruptions - going back to at least 1999 - may have played a part
in whatever melting there has been of the Greenland and Arctic ice sheets?
If there has even been any
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2008/06/arctic_ice_melt_mat_be_due_to.html
June 26, 2008
Arctic ice melt may be due to undersea volcanoes
Thomas Lifson
The Arctic ice that is supposedly melting, stranding those cuddly looking polar bears, just might be
affected by a wave of volcanic eruptions on the ocean floor under the Arctic ice cap. AFP reports on the
recently-documented volcanoes, but oddly makes no mention of the possible effect on apocalyptic
predictions of global warming.
Recent massive volcanoes have risen from the ocean floor deep under the Arctic ice cap, spewing
plumes of fragmented magma into the sea, scientists who filmed the aftermath reported Wednesday.
The eruptions - as big as the one that buried Pompei - took place in 1999 along the Gakkel Ridge, an
underwater mountain chain snaking 1,800 kilometres (1,100 miles) from the northern tip of Greenland to
Siberia.
Scientists suspected even at the time that a simultaneous series of earthquakes were linked to these
volcanic spasms.
But when a team led of scientists led by Robert Sohn of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in
Massachusetts finally got a first-ever glimpse of the ocean floor 4,000 meters (13,000 feet) beneath the
Arctic pack ice, they were astonished.
What they saw was unmistakable evidence of explosive eruptions rather than the gradual secretion of
lava bubbling up from Earth's mantle onto the ocean floor...
Steve Gilbert of Sweetness & Light draws our attention to the report, and makes all the connections
AFP studiously ignores:
Er, is it not possible that these volcanic eruptions - going back to at least 1999 - may have played a part
in whatever melting there has been of the Greenland and Arctic ice sheets?
If there has even been any
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