Study finds Arctic seabed afire with lava-spewing (and "huge volumes of CO2")

canada.com ^ | June 25, 2008 | Margaret Munro

[theBuckwheat]

Study finds Arctic seabed afire with lava-spewing volcanoes

The Arctic seabed is as explosive geologically as it is politically judging by the "fountains" of gas and molten lava that have been blasting out of underwater volcanoes near the North Pole.

"Explosive volatile discharge has clearly been a widespread, and ongoing, process," according to an international team that sent unmanned probes to the strange fiery world beneath the Arctic ice.

They returned with images and data showing that red-hot magma has been rising from deep inside the earth and blown the tops off dozens of submarine volcanoes, four kilometres below the ice. "Jets or fountains of material were probably blasted one, maybe even two, kilometres up into the water," says geophysicist Robert Sohn of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, who led the expedition....

[look what is buried buried down in paragraph #11]:

Sohn says the huge volumes of CO2 gas that belched out of the undersea volcanoes likely contributed to rising concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. How much, he couldn't say....

[GourmetDan]

"Sohn says the huge volumes of CO2 gas that belched out of the undersea volcanoes likely contributed to rising concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere."

BUSH'S FAULT!

[yobid]

If one volcano can produce more CO2 in one eruption than mankind can produce in his entire existence, then why isn't Al Gore protesting volcanos?

[DoughtyOne]

There’s probably more CO2 coming out of those vents each year than ten years worth of so-called greenhouse gas emissions.

What’s the left going to do now, demand carbon credits from mother earth?

Running leftists seen shouting, “Me oh my, woe is me, the sky is falling, the ozone weighs heavily opon my psyche. What will I do...”

[al_c]

So THAT’S where I left my SUV. Dang ... sorry about that, Mr. Gore.

[dfwgator]

"Liquid hot magma!"

[dandelion]

Gee - I wonder if *HEAT* melts ice???

Naw... that’s just crazy talk.

[theBuckwheat]

A scientist can observe “huge volumes” of CO2 and not show much interest in estimating the size of the discharge, yet other supporters of AGW do not hesitate to run models and publish estimates of this or that effect down to three or four significant digits of accuracy based on rough estimates of CO2. Then politicians take these numbers as gospel and base draconian legislation on them like “cap and trade”, a plan that will destroy new business formation in the US.

Pitiful on several counts.

[DoughtyOne]

I agree. I might actually refer to it with another name too on occasion.

[Coffee200am]

SOCIALIZE MOLTEN LAVA NOW!!

[Truth is a Weapon]

Ping

[musicman]

"Study finds Arctic seabed afire with lava-spewing (and "huge volumes of CO2")"

[2nd amendment mama]

The scientists say the heat released by the explosions is not contributing to the melting of the Arctic ice, but Sohn says the huge volumes of CO2 gas that belched out of the undersea volcanoes likely contributed to rising concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. How much, he couldn't say.

Right.....huge amounts of heat from the volcanos don't count, only the emissions from my SUV do. A$$holes.

[decimon]

The Arctic is iced and carbonated. Cool.

[PGR88]

Kind of luck a giant, carbonated ocean of Pepsi. Yum!

[hedgetrimmer]

What’s the left going to do now, demand carbon credits from mother earth?

Only if they can find a way to make her pay the carbon tax! Otherwise, we'll just be made to subsidize her!

[NonValueAdded]

[Straight Vermonter]

If one volcano can produce more CO2 in one eruption than mankind can produce in his entire existence...

Not even close to the truth.

[rockinqsranch]

I filed the story along with the link in case.......

[JimSEA]

Some 600 mya, so the Snowball Earth theories argue, the Earth entered a run away ice age during which all the oceans were frozen and ice covered even the regions on the equator, killing off most life. Then, below the ice sheets, volcanoes continued spewing CO2 for 10 million years bringing the atmosphere to 13% CO2. This massive concentration of CO2 (350 times today's) resulted in global warming at 120 degrees F. to melt the ice which, in turn created an explosion of plant life, using CO@ and reversing the global warming explosion.

But then, of course this must be wrong since people are responsible for all climate change, mass extinctions, etc..

[Pablo64]

"..."fountains" of gas and molten lava that have been blasting out of underwater volcanoes near the North Pole."

Hey, won't that melt...the...ice...? Oh, never mind, I forgot that my Chevy pickup is responsible for that. Silly me.

[justa-hairyape]

Right.....huge amounts of heat from the volcanos don't count, only the emissions from my SUV do. A$$holes.

Those undersea volcanoes transfer an immense amount of heat to the ocean water, which eventually affects our atmoshperic climate. None of those effects have ever been seriously factored into the Global Warming Models.

[RJL]

Study finds Arctic seabed afire with lava-spewing

Gee, I wonder if red hot lava would melt Arctic ice?
/S

[Walkingfeather]

hot magma shooting up against ice wouldnt have a melting effect right al gore?

[DariusBane]

Ok, so what is the truth?

[tubebender]

This must have set off seismographs around the world or how did they know one happened in 1999...

[RightWhale]

one volcano can produce more CO2 in one eruption than mankind can produce in his entire existence...

Rephrase: If one volcano can produce more CO2 in one eruption than mankind can produce in his entire existence then there is no oil down there.

The first statement is false, so there is no oil down there.

[Straight Vermonter]

volcanism produces about 5X10^11 kg of CO2 per year...Current fossil fuel and land use practices now introduce about a (net) 17.6X10^12 kg of CO2 into the atmosphere.

http://volcano.und.edu/vwdocs/frequent_questions/grp6/question1375.html

[Nahanni]

Because he can not make money off of them.

[Amelia]

There are no volcanoes exploding in the area right now, but they scientists say there appears to still be a lot happening on the sea floor. "I had the impression this whole central volcano area was oozing warm fluid," says Henrietta Edmonds of the University of Texas, who was on the expedition tracking the plumes of warm waters rising from the spreading ridge.

So if the heat & warm water can't melt the Arctic ice, where is it going?

[go-ken-go]

THERES AN ARTICLE ON DRUDGE RIGHT NOW THATS SAYS THERE IS A 50/50 CHANCE THERE WON’T BE ANY ICE IN THE NORTH POLE THIS SUMMER..

WONDER IF THEY KNOW ABOUT THE VOLCANOES UNDERNEATH? YA THINK

[DariusBane]

Ok,

I forgot my college logic class... lol Nicely done.

[DariusBane]

Great, so now can you tell me which is producing more, vulcanism or land use? (i have no idea what you just said).

[PeaceBeWithYou]

In one of the reports online, I read that Sohn had said at least 10 times the usual amount of CO2 released in similar eruptions.

Volcanos belch CO2 into the air, soil, and water even when they're not erupting, no one is seriously monitoring it, nor could you if you tried. I don't doubt that volcanos release more CO2 than manmade sources, lots more.

Like everything else in the climate alarmist game the assumption is that man is the culprit.

CO2 is plant food, they crave it. That CO2 levels have increased over the past 10 years while temps have cooled proves that temp and CO2 are not linked - no matter how much al's still sore wants it to be so.

[Straight Vermonter]

Volcanoes= 500,000,000,000 kg/yr of CO²

Fossil fuels=17,600,000,000,000 kg/yr of CO²

[missanne]

It depends on what your defination of is is....IMHO

[beaversmom]

For the good of the planet, we must sacrifice Al Gore to the volcano god.

[Pablo64]

I think the comparison you were looking for with volcanoes is the amount of CFC's they spew forth, not CO2.

In his book The Way Things Ought to Be, Rush Limbaugh pointed out that Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines spewed out more than a thousand times the amount of ozone-depleting chemicals in one eruption than all the CFC's manufactured by mankind in history. The comparison was a response to the ridiculous notion that mankind has the power to destroy the ozone layer, not about so-called greenhouse gasses (specifically CO2).

Does that help?

[jpsb]

Your source is full of you know what. This is a bald face lie.

"Hence, volcanism produces about 3% of the total CO2 with the other 97% coming from man-made sources.

[Straight Vermonter]

The line you quote was badly worded. The writer was comparing just the two elements in question and leaving out other large contributors like the oceans.

[steelyourfaith]

 

Beam me to The Top of the World !

[NoLibZone]

Russia will have a substantial Carbon Tax bill.

[theBuckwheat]

>>
Volcanoes= 500,000,000,000 kg/yr of CO2
<<

Does this figure include these newly discovered vents and their “huge volumes”?

[jpsb]

It is not possible to categorize the amount of CO2 from "volcanism", simplely not possible. Sometimes volcanoes put out a get deal of CO2 sometime they don't. It all depends on which volcano is erupting. A small eruption like Mt Saint Helens, not too much CO2, a super eruption like Toba (could at super volcano be erupting right now under the Arctic?) lots.

Personally I do not believe your source, I think it is agenda driven.

[DariusBane]

Yes, thank you. I keep wondering what happened to the hole in the ozone. I am still scared of that, yet the greenies want me to move on to being afraid of global warming. I’m just not ready to make the change yet.

[Pablo64]

Well, you may be smart to wait to make the change. I think the greenies are now moving away from global warming to global “climate change”. That way, it doesn’t matter what happens, you can still panic. It’s really very convenient.

[DariusBane]

Thank goodness for that. If the time ever comes that I can live without anxiety then I will have to remove a limb with a rusty saw so that I can worry about something. Thanks so much for your encouraging words.