From “Scientific” American via Reuters, proof positive that global warming is omnipotent and is intertwined into anything you choose it to be. Why, even the inner Earth bends to its will. And we all know that once the inner Earth gets out, we’re doomed, because Al Gore tells us it is millions of degrees.
Ice cap thaw may awaken Icelandic volcanoes (link fixed)
By Alister Doyle, Environment Correspondent
OSLO (Reuters) – A thaw of Iceland’s ice caps in coming decades caused by climate change may trigger more volcanic eruptions by removing a vast weight and freeing magma from deep below ground, scientists said on Friday.
They said there was no sign that the current eruption from below the Eyjafjallajokull glacier that has paralysed flights over northern Europe was linked to global warming. The glacier is too small and light to affect local geology.
“Our work suggests that eventually there will be either somewhat larger eruptions or more frequent eruptions in Iceland in coming decades,” said Freysteinn Sigmundsson, a vulcanologist at the University of Iceland.
“Global warming melts ice and this can influence magmatic systems,” he told Reuters. The end of the Ice Age 10,000 years ago coincided with a surge in volcanic activity in Iceland, apparently because huge ice caps thinned and the land rose.
“We believe the reduction of ice has not been important in triggering this latest eruption,” he said of Eyjafjallajokull. “The eruption is happening under a relatively small ice cap.”
Carolina Pagli, a geophysicist at the University of Leeds in England, said there were risks that climate change could also trigger volcanic eruptions or earthquakes in places such as Mount Erebus in Antarctica, the Aleutian islands of Alaska or Patagonia in South America.
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He said that melting ice seemed the main way in which climate change, blamed mainly on use of fossil fuels, could have knock-on effects on geology. The U.N. climate panel says that global warming will cause more floods, droughts and rising seas.
h/t to WUWT reader Sean Peake
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This is idiotic.
If the magma chamber is close enough to surface to be affected by the weight of the glacier, then it is already rapidly melting the glacier from underneath.
But I just read a news article quoting a scientist saying the ice made the volcano WORSE due to the ash interaction with the melting ice……
But I forgot, AGW proves everything, probably even this guy’s three eruptions before we invented little flying machines…
This is a good thing, right? Think of all the CO2 we’re saving from all these grounded airplanes!
Ah what about Laki in 1784, or Krakatoa, or Kenai on 1912, or oh, nevermind.
This is indeed “a sinners in the hands of an angry Gaia” sermon….
The article looks like a late April Fool’s joke to me.
Europe is now getting free fertilizer plus a cooling effect.
Yet another effect of global warming. Hummmm…I wonder if the melting glaciers on Mt. Pinitubo caused it to erupt. Wait, there were no glaciers on Mt. Pinitubo, duh.
I’m not a volcanologist and I don’t play one on TV, but I have to call BULL on this idea !
Super,
A negative feedback. Where is THAT quantified in the computer models used to predict global temperature in the year 2100?
As I watched the news last night reporting on the Icelandic ash cloud I said to my wife “I wonder how long before someone blames AGW for this”.
Predictable. Add it to the Warm List.
I’m too stunned to comment… and besides I’m not at my desk anymore. ROTHFLMAO!
C’mon, Anthony!
You’re making them up now!
Right?
Nice sense of the ridiculous, though.
global Warming doesn’t melt ice. this year Ice growth in the arctic proves that. Atlantic Oscillation, and Wind patterns melt ice
We say one thing and the opposite. That way we can’t be wrong.
I am 65 know I have heard everything what a load of bull dust
***puts hand in face*** NOW they tell us!
/sarc off
Is there anything Global Warming can’t do?
So we are to believe that thousands of volcanoes are being “keep at bay” by glaciers?
It is a novel piece of research that considers that the mechanical strength properties of some 200metres or so of ice can keep the lid on the crust (given that typically the oceanic crust is 3 to 6 miles thick, contineantal crust 20 to 30 miles thick). I certainly never guessed that some 200metres of ice could prevent the movement of plate tectonics. Trace amounts of CO2 are surely powerful indeed.
Talk about nebulous!
Suggests… eventually… either… somewhat… or… coming decades…
Our work suggests that a room full of chimpanzees with typewriters will either come up with something like Hamlet or something else over some period of time.
I would think melting ice in Iceland would be akin to the butterfly effect compared to Tectonic forces. Yes it could have an effect but it would be lost in the noise… Kind of like AGW compared to natural cycles.
sickening…
Uhmm,……geez……that’s…… volcanoes already erupt…..ice doesn’t stop…..the properties of magnum….. pressure from under neath……heat…….do people really believe……..?has the gene pool really …………?, I’m speechless.
Too many ‘weasel words’ from Freysteinn Sigmundsson for this piece to have much meaning. When he can accurately predict the timing and size of future volcanic eruptions, I may start to have interest in what he is saying.
OMG, it’s worse than we thought !
What a COMPLETE line of BS!
The weight of the ice … I am beyond words!
So let’s see: Does that mean that all the water in the Pacific and Atlantic deeps will keep those underwater volcanoes from erupting — even though they keep erupting?
And what about Mt. Saint Helen? Why did it erupt?
WHO pays those people to say things like that?
Geez!
I thought felt a draft… who left the door to Hell open again?