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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If ice loss was capable of uncapping magma chambers, I think such a phenomenon would have been evident at the end of the last ice age some 10,000 years ago.
This statement is almost beyond belief. It demonstrates an ignorance so profound that anyone who would expound it should be sent back to grade school. I might add that anyone who would print it should probably accompany them.
Anyone have more detail on that “door to hell?”
Glacier melt also caused the one in Haiti, Peru, China you’ll note. Um…did i miss anywhere?
Gee, was that the case when this thing erupted back in 1821? Who wudda thunk it?
…… since volcanism contributes significantly to global cooling we have nothing to worry about…………… do we?
I wonder if anyone bothered to actually check the temperature records in Iceland before making these ridiculous claims. Here’s Reykjavik, where the temperatures today are the same as during the 1920s, 30s, 40s, 50s, and 60s:
http://data.giss.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/gistemp/gistemp_station.py?id=620040300000&data_set=1&num_neighbors=1
A casual link with a dead sun however was discussed in the aftermath of Haiti but I think that, if there is a link, the cause is unknown at present. However, it was said, that larger earth quakes will occur at a time of a minimum. As for melting glaciers relieving stress on the mantle….thats a given but whether that leads to bigger or more frequent earth quakes, volcanoes in Iceland… Prove it!
OMG, does this mean that The Mole People will come out too?
All that’s left is for them to pitch a new deal to the marks about how feedback from global warming is suppressing solar activity which will, in turn, lead to *gasp* a new Ice Age.
Interestingly, there seems to be a linkage between volcanism and solar activity (something I’ve been wait ages to ask Leif about) that has been postulated to be indirect via (for example) ice-melting causing crustal disturbance causing volcanic activity. This would seem to be a fairly interesting negative feedback if it is real.
Something fun to think about.
bob
As a scientist, I had stopped reading Sci Amer many years ago when I found the quality had declined so much since I was a young lad and considered it the best. It is so sad to see that the quality has dropped so much, that it perhaps would be best disseminated and sold in the check-out aisles in my supermarket from now on.
Manufacturing ghosts and demons. What kind of sacrifices are being called for now?
And how do they explain volcanoes before the industrial age?
Sounds like a negative feedback to me.
Warming leads to more volcano eruptions, which leads to cooling.
Well there you go – Great spin. Good old MSM!
Talk about voodoo science.
Your kinding right? I mean we’re 16 days past April 1st.
Isn’t that Gaia’s belly button?
BTW again, this one
M 4.9, Utah
Date: Thursday, April 15, 2010 23:59:39 UTC
Thursday, April 15, 2010 05:59:39 PM at epicenter
Depth: 7.90 km (4.91 mi)
So close to surface…! Kind of an already red “pimple”
The increasingly large volcanic erruptions in areas formerly under permafrost conditions will melt even more ice, causing even more and larger volcanic erruptions, which will melt more ice and cause yet more erruptions, causing a never-ending death-spiral for the planet.
WE ARE ALL DOOMED!
/sarc off
Problem solved then! The volcanoes will release lots of aerosols, which will reflect sunlight, and the Earth will cool back down, right?
It’s all due to the solar/lunar tides!
http://astroclimateconnection.blogspot.com/2010/03/why-do-long-term-periodicities-in-enso.html
At this level of correctness, there is nothing that cannot be explained by global warming. Oh I want to throw up… that too comes from AGW…
well, this works in antarctica maybe. greenland can have quakes and uplift from ice shifts. iceland? doubt it. also, it’s a poor argument for mayhem but the gaia fags might latch onto the EQUILIBRIUM involved: more warming, less ice, more seismicity, more ash plumes, lower temperatures: situation normal, all freaked out.
vomit launch are from chico aren’t they?
Link seems broken:
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=ice-cap-thaw-may-awaken-i
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Let’s all completely ignore the fact that volcanic eruptions add particulate matter to the atmosphere which increases the earth’s albedo. Let’s not suggest that volcanic eruptions could possibly be earth’s natural response to warmer temperatures. No, let’s not explore any of those facts or theories, instead let’s just continue the alarmist drumbeat…. bum….bum….bum… boogeyman coming to get us!