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To: blam

The volcanoes on Iceland are caused by the two Atlantic ocean tectonic plates pulling away from each other.

I imagine icecaps have no bearing on plate tectonics do they.

The scientists who do these studies get invited to all the “great global warming parties” afterward as a reward for contributing to the cause, but in the background, all the scientists are snickering at both them and how these outrageously ridiculous claims can keep making it into print. It is almost a contest about who can get “global warming will cause cannabilism” story into print.

I will give it a try.

“Global warming has resulted in mankind polluting the entire universe and causing universal warming. If we don’t stop polluting the universe with our CO2, we will cause entire galaxies to go supernova at the same time. this could happen in 30 to 40 years, faster than the speed of light even.”


21 posted on 04/03/2008 6:04:50 PM PDT by JustDoItAlways
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Bumper Sticker Idea:

The Earth’s Magma is Melting.


23 posted on 04/03/2008 6:06:18 PM PDT by Rebelbase
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To: JustDoItAlways
Yeah, a 2 mile high ice sheet that extends thousands of miles in all directions does have an impact on tectonics ~ but we don't happen to have one of those monsters at the moment.

All that's left during this interglacial are little chunks here and there.

29 posted on 04/03/2008 6:46:48 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: JustDoItAlways
I imagine icecaps have no bearing on plate tectonics do they.

They probably do but this article is clearly a "scare" piece designed to further the global warming/climate change hysteria. Look up "isostasy."

While rocks seem hard and inflexible, when great weight is placed on them they bend. At great depth the friction caused by that flexing creates heat. Heat is also created by frictional flexing when the weight is removed and the rocks go back to their original equalibrium. It's the heat that causes magma creation and hot magma expands, often venting to the surface as volcanic eruptions.

This is a normal and continuing process along plate boundaries when one plate is subducted beneath another -- as around the Ring of Fire. The recent Mt. St. Helen's eruption was part of that cycle. What the article purposely leaves out is that similar magma production occurred from isostatic flexing when the ice formed into heavy sheets after the last interglacial.

The Big Lie of "climate change" is its ridiculous assumption that there's some sort of "normal" climate. There isn't. Climate is constantly changing over the eons and the human race has survived -- so far -- only by being tough, resilient and adaptable enough to find ways to make it through the changes.

35 posted on 04/03/2008 10:48:38 PM PDT by Bernard Marx
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