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..