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Ice cap thaw may awaken Icelandic volcanoes
Reuters ^
| April, 16, 2010
| Alister Doyle
Posted on 04/16/2010 6:22:42 PM PDT by apillar
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.
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TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: catastrophism; climatechange; globaloney; globalwarminghoax; manbearpig; stuckonstupid
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To: apillar
Sure, why not. Didn’t Danny Glover say that global warming is to blame for all the current earthquakes?
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posted on
04/16/2010 7:13:51 PM PDT
by
ViLaLuz
(2 Chronicles 7:14)
To: apillar
We knew this was coming Ecclesiastes 1:9
The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.
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posted on
04/16/2010 7:19:34 PM PDT
by
Theophilus
('a dog is smarter than its tail', but if the tail were smarter, then the tail would 'wag the dog'.)
To: Psycho_Bunny
The greater part of the ice on top of Iceland disappeared for the most part about 13,000 years ago. The amount that's been there since has been a quite modest percentage.
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posted on
04/16/2010 7:20:19 PM PDT
by
muawiyah
("Git Out The Way")
To: Psycho_Bunny
Actually, wouldnt the greater amounts of ice increase the pressure of the magma and lead to bigger eruptions?
There is some truth to what they are saying but it is counterbalanced by factual inaccuracies in their claims. Here's why: overburden does in fact cap magma, specifically it keeps dissolved gasses in solution. Mount St. Helens is a prime example of an earthquake causing a landslide which relieved overburden which caused dissolved gasses to "boil out" resulting in a massive volcanic explosion. Problem is, icelandic vulcanism is from a mid-oceanic ridge and is therefore basaltic. Basaltic magmas are MUCH less viscous (e.g. more fluid) than the continental rhyolite/dacite composition of Mount St. Helens, which is more like gas charged toothpaste, and therefore exsolved gasses are not explosively released but rather gently vented. So they've jumbled some science in with some misconceptions and packaged it up as some sort of scientific mumbo-jumbo which in the final analysis ain't worth squat.
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posted on
04/16/2010 7:23:18 PM PDT
by
SpaceBar
To: apillar
But if the ice doesn’t melt and all of that weight remains, Iceland will capsize!!
To: cripplecreek
Isn’t nature lovely? According to your theory, nature is self-correcting and in perfect harmony with itself. I just love it when things work out in the end.
To: rmlew
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posted on
04/16/2010 7:29:36 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
("Fools learn from experience. I prefer to learn from the experience of others." -- Otto von Bismarck)
To: apillar
It’s silly theory. But consider what it would mean for the AGW theory were it true: it would mean they left out a massive negative feedback mechanism in all their computer models that purport to show catastrophic warming.
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posted on
04/16/2010 7:30:23 PM PDT
by
The_Reader_David
(And when they behead your own people in the wars which are to come, then you will know. . .)
To: apillar
They don’t need no globull warming to melt the glaciers; the volcanoes will do the job on their own.
To: apillar
Perfect! This way, they can blame The Cooling on The Warming!
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posted on
04/16/2010 7:30:35 PM PDT
by
Travis McGee
(---www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com---)
To: SpaceBar
I was just being a smart ass but you’ve sparked my interest in the subject. Thanks.
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posted on
04/16/2010 7:32:05 PM PDT
by
Psycho_Bunny
(Socialism is for people who've given up.)
To: J Edgar
If you want to push your erroneous agenda you’ll have to come up with a lie.
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posted on
04/16/2010 7:35:33 PM PDT
by
353FMG
(What can Islam possibly contribute to America other than its destruction?)
To: Smokin' Joe; Ezekiel
The people who think volcanic eruptions are caused *by* ‘climate change’ got it ash-backwards...
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posted on
04/16/2010 7:41:45 PM PDT
by
mikrofon
(Big Eyjafjallajokfullation)
To: HereInTheHeartland
” I think now my chocolate lab is sophisticated enough to have a career in journalism.”
“That awful power, the public opinion of a nation, is created in America by a horde of ignorant, self-complacent simpletons who failed at ditching and shoe making and fetched up in journalism on their way to the poor house.”
— Mark Twain
“Laziness has become the chief characteristic of journalism, displacing incompetence.”
— Kingsley Amis
Amis had obviously not read Doyle, or he would have realized that certain people can absolutely embrace BOTH characteristics.
Doyle’s ignorance is encyclopedic!
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posted on
04/16/2010 7:41:58 PM PDT
by
hadit2here
("Most men would rather die than think. Many do." - Bertrand Russell)
To: dynachrome; Amagi; rdl6989; Tunehead54; Clive; Little Bill; tubebender; marvlus; IrishCatholic; ...
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posted on
04/16/2010 7:42:54 PM PDT
by
steelyourfaith
(Warmists as "traffic light" apocalyptics: "Greens too yellow to admit they're really Reds."-Monckton)
To: apillar
Well if that happens Global Warming is done for - since these same scientists admit that vulcanic activity in the past has actually helped cool the earth’s atmosphere, significantly increased activity in the future would lead to much more cooling, thus putting a brake on warming - a pretty neat auto-correction mechanism - thanks, Mother Nature.....
To: Hillbillary
#64
I just know I have seen those ears somewhere. Give me a minute...
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posted on
04/16/2010 7:52:13 PM PDT
by
gov_bean_ counter
(Obie Wan Nairobi from the 1/2 dark side. The farce strong with this one, it is...)
To: CondoleezzaProtege; Cobra64
>>And I’m still waiting for the first Freeper to say “It’s Bush’s fault.”
Oh, I’m sure that has been done already, but I’m not going to go dig through the threads to find it.
Oh, heck, that’s just a challenge. AAAAAND . . .
Here it is:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2476151/posts
Post 2 on that thread, by Cobra64. Three weeks ago!
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posted on
04/16/2010 7:59:36 PM PDT
by
FreedomPoster
(No Representation without Taxation!)
To: apillar
What a maroon! Everyone knows that the ice and snow cause the magma to generate more pressure resulting
in a bigger explosion when it finally does blow! By melting off some excess ice
we are reducing the blast pressure.
See how easy it is to manufacture science!
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posted on
04/16/2010 8:00:18 PM PDT
by
soycd
To: Jeff Chandler
I beat that. I found one from 3 weeks ago.
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posted on
04/16/2010 8:00:19 PM PDT
by
FreedomPoster
(No Representation without Taxation!)
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