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.
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Oh, here we go again. “Global warming melts ice and this can influence magmatic systems”. I notice volcanoes melt glaciers as well, and big ones in Iceland do so at an incredible rate of 400,000 tonnes of water per second – rather faster than ‘global warming’, so we have an unstable positive feedback? Think of all that greenhouse gas, water vapour, as well. But hang on, don’t the aerosols create significant global cooling?
I don’t think we are likely to see any ‘huge icecaps thinned’ (arctic doesn’t count – it floats) or land rising by hundreds of metres in the near future. And Eyjafjallajokull goes off every few hundred years, so nothing unusual there.
I might add that the recent Meteor seen in Wisconson was likely caused by the increased warmth of the Earth attracting the meteoroids from the frigid ranges of the Kyper belt.
We geologists will divide into two camps on this obviously very important subject.
One group will say, “what complete crap!”.
The other will say, “we will need some more grants to study this, as well as all its implications.”
Any guess, which group works for government? It’s the same philosophy for almost every climate ‘scientist’.
“Door to Hell”. This must be a first – something that is not on Wiki.
Here is a link, interesting place. A big hole that swallowed up the miners drilling equipment, it was emitting gas so someone threw a match in. Been burning for 35 years.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2017461/posts
I suppose it it a mite too big to cap and extract the gas.
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Anthony/Mods, the “Door to Hell” is in Turkmenistan, not Uzbekistan (as was stated in the photo’s caption). Just a heads up.
It’s all our fault and we’re doomed.What have these people been smoking.The ice isn’t shrinking its back to normal and growing.
I think we just found a new spot to start massive garbage dumps.
Earth warms, ice melts, volcanoes erupt, ash reflects sunlight, earth cools… problem solved.
“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.”
Trouble with projecting the past into the future is that the conditions of the past don’t exist any more. Where are these “huge ice caps” that existed 10,000 years ago? Oh yeah, they’ve all melted, to be replaced with those tiny remnants known as glaciers, perched up high in the mountains.
Hmmm…could result in a material increase in events producing stratospheric aerosols. What then?
This guys implies that the ice thinned due to global warming and then the volcanoes erupted 10k years ago???
So which came first? Global Warming that melted the glaciers to cause volcanic activity 10k years ago. So what started the global warming?
Or volcanic activity 10k years ago that caused glaciers to melt and global warming? So what started the volcanic activity?
This is really weak reasoning and any person who claims they are a scientist that advocates this nonsense should be ashamed of themselves. The Orbital Hypothesis is much more likely.
Warming causes volcanoes which cause cooling. Cooling slows the trade winds which causes El Ninos which cause warming. And so on and so forth, involving over twenty different factors which can be described as agents of “forcing.”
IE: A system of checks and balances. No such thing as a “tipping point.”
Never happened in the past, so just a theory that would suit another planet better than ours.
Meanwhile, Britain is still shut down by hysteria over a poxy amount of ash in the air that is nothing compared to levels of ash we experienced from Japanese and North American eruptions in living memory, such as Mount St Helens.
Beyond hysterical! Icelandic people never seemed that funny but I guess we just didn’t hear them with right material. Freysteinn Sigmundsson needs a reality show but of course it needs to be on a religious channel.
One a side note, you think the Church of Scientology congregation breathes a collective sigh of relief every time the Church of Climatology zealots out wacky them?
So, if I read this right, reduced pressure on the surface above a volcanic pipe activates that volcano? Does this also mean that once a volcano reaches a certain height it will automatically deactivate because of the increased pressure, or, perhaps even that rising sea levels will eventually deactivate the “hot spots” (submerged volcanoes) along the mid-Atlantic ridge? ….interesting.
He left out the Heartbreak of Psoriasis.
meanwhile, that “Gateway to Hell” in Uzbekistan is pretty interesting, hadn’t seen that one before. Looked it up, and it’s clear that it’s just another Communist-era industrial accident that they never bothered to clean up.
They mentioned it was caused by a drilling rig, so obviously they were drilling a relatively shallow nat gas reservoir and had an underground blowout, which created a sinkhole. (not difficult in the right geology) After the sinkhole collapsed, taking the rig with it, they set it on fire since they couldn’t figure out what else to do with the gas reservoir they had stupidly punctured.
hey guys, ever hear about RELIEF WELLS? which is what western oil and gas operators do if any similar situation threatens to arise??? Without that, it will continue to burn until the entire gas reservoir leaks out through the hole – who knows how many decades that will take.
Will 2010 or 2011 be the year without a summer as in 1816 with all this ash going into the air? Or is this eruption too small? But it is at a high latitude where temperature change is more sensitive to disturbances.
What does this say for natural variability swamping any effect of human activity?
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
Is this false? If so, why?
I mean, fine if you’re content with “wow, that seems really unlikely, so it can’t possibly be true,” but you have to admit it’s not a particularly strong counter-argument…
So, correct me if I’m wrong. The global warming alarmists have said that volcanoes don’t affect global warming (except for short term weather changes, but not climate changes), but greenhouse gases affect volcanoes. Hmmm! So, do volcanoes have a negative or a positive feedback?
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.
Spookily enough man first started lighting fires round about then!
Do I get the Nobel Prize
Strangely these things stick, e.g. this celebrity connection between global warming and the terrible Haitian earthquake:
What’s next ‘agw causes agw’ – or do we already have that with the GCM feedback loops?
Probably time to give up and invest in Gore’s carbon management firm…
I have actually been waiting for someone to link earthquakes to global warming, as impossible a feat as this seemed. Impressive how Pagli snuck that in there.
Egads!! I started losing my hair in the early 80’s and now I’m completely bald. That coincides with AGW. Coincidence?? I don’t think so!! It’s all related, see?? I want my fair share of hair. Who do I sue?
‘Missing’ Heat May Affect Future Climate Change
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/04/100415141121.htm
“Current observational tools cannot account for roughly half of the heat that is believed to have built up on Earth in recent years, according to a “Perspectives” article in this week’s issue of Science. Scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) warn in the new study that satellite sensors, ocean floats, and other instruments are inadequate to track this “missing” heat, which may be building up in the deep oceans or elsewhere in the climate system.”
Hmmmm. Sort opf like dark matter.
The problem with Alarmists focusing too much on isostatic movements of the earth’s crust is that they are bound to dig up evidence of past movements related to the MWP.
The ice had receded so much in Greenland, when the Vikings were there, that the land was rising. When the Little Ice Age brought the glaciers grinding back down Greenland’s valleys, the land settled again.
In the late 1700’s a Swedish scientist poking around the Viking settlements in Greenland noted that the places where the Vikings had docked their boats were under water, which showed the land was sinking. (This was notable to a Swede, for back in Sweden the coasts were rising.)
This shows that isostatic movements can be quite local, though they have effects to the sides: As central Greenland is repressed the southern tip rises, and vice versa. (And also as Scotland rises southern England sinks.)
Some really fascinating studies on isostatic geological movements have been done by Scandinavians, as it effects their landscapes in a striking manner. I think such research has been underfunded, because it is politically incorrect, for it fails to support the concept of rising seas caused by global warming.
Perhaps now they will get more funding. All they need to do is to work the possibility of volcanoes blowing up due to shrinking icecaps into the final paragraph, to please Alarmists with deep pockets.
However in the long run the evidence they uncover will show the MWP was warmer, and the earth did not blow up or drown in hot lava.
Truth always wins in the end, though sometimes the waiting is hard.