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To: Grut; burzum; Night Hides Not; manwiththehands
but I suspect that a source with a name like "iceagenow" may not be perfectly unbiased.

That's true, but some times some things are just facts. These volcanoes are a reality.

We know more about our solar system than we do about under our oceans and the interior of the earth.

;-)

16 posted on 12/19/2005 3:24:48 AM PST by beyond the sea (Murtha: Redeployment - What .......Surrender? --- Victory is not a strategy.)
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To: beyond the sea

I always have to be careful when interpreting geophysical actions into changes in climate. For example many scientists believe that the great end of Permian extinction event that occured 250 million years ago was due to immense volcanic activity. Some say that the volcanic activity may have superheated the Earth's atmosphere while others say it may have sent up ash that blocked out the sunlight cooling the atmosphere. Vastly different estimations from roughly the same event.

In this case we are talking about under-ocean volcanoes warming the oceans. I'm not sure that I agree with that argument. It's not that I don't think that underwater volcanoes wouldn't heat the oceans (they probably would if they were not allowed to send any ejecta into the atmosphere), it's just that I don't think I agree with the premise that the ring of fire has gone into a super-active phase. I studied geophysics for 2 years before I got sick of it and one thing I learned is that the Earth rarely suddenly changes its behavior. Volcanic activity will scale up over millions or billions of years, not tens of years. If there is a high value for one year it will be averaged out statistically.

I give a lot more credibility to arguments that the Sun, CO2, or methane gas hydrate release is warming the oceans than to a change in the Earth itself. It's a positive feedback cycle: the Sun heats the oceans which emit CO2 and methane, which further heats the atmosphere as greenhouse gasses. Obviously there must be some negative feedback cycle or the Earth would have long ago spiraled off into oblivion. I'm guessing that that negative feedback is due to plankton and phytoplankton that thrive at higher temperatures, reflecting more sunlight away.


20 posted on 12/19/2005 3:43:01 AM PST by burzum (Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.-Adm H Rickover)
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To: beyond the sea
That's true, but some times some things are just facts. These volcanoes are a reality.

There have been underwater volcanoes for the last 4 billion years, and there's been no INCREASE in underwater volcaneoes.

The "Iceagenow" site is completely worthless, and the author is an abject moron.

62 posted on 12/19/2005 6:03:54 AM PST by Strategerist
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