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Hidden Volcanoes Melt Antarctic Glaciers from Below (I know, I know. Old news)
Yahoo! News ^ | 6/9/14 | Stephanie Pappas, Live Science

Posted on 06/09/2014 1:46:13 PM PDT by NormsRevenge

Antarctica is a land of ice. But dive below the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, and you'll find fire as well, in the form of subglacial volcanoes.

Now, a new study finds that these subglacial volcanoes and other geothermal "hotspots" are contributing to the melting of Thwaites Glacier, a major river of ice that flows into Antarctica's Pine Island Bay. Areas of the glacier that sit near geologic features thought to be volcanic are melting faster than regions farther away from hotspots, said Dustin Schroeder, the study's lead author and a geophysicist at the University of Texas at Austin.

This melting could significantly affect ice loss in the West Antarctic, an area that is losing ice quickly.

"It's not just the fact that there is melting water, and that water is coming out," Schroeder told Live Science. "It's how that affects the flow and stability of the ice."

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KEYWORDS: antarctic; glaciers; hidden; volcanoes
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To: NormsRevenge

Yeah, but, of course, it’a all of the fracking that caused the volcanic activity, right?


21 posted on 06/09/2014 3:43:11 PM PDT by Bigg Red (31 May 2014: Obamugabe officially declares the USA a vanquished subject of the Global Caliphate.)
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To: Bigg Red

it’a = it’s


22 posted on 06/09/2014 3:53:14 PM PDT by Bigg Red (31 May 2014: Obamugabe officially declares the USA a vanquished subject of the Global Caliphate.)
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To: NormsRevenge

Odd how the same people who complain about having to shovel snow off their driveways also complain about global warming.


23 posted on 06/10/2014 5:27:58 AM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: NormsRevenge

“It’s how that affects the flow and stability of the ice.”

That is a part of CHAOS theory. The flow and stability must change. All life, all over the planet, is dependent on an environment that changes.


24 posted on 06/10/2014 5:32:33 AM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: illiac; NormsRevenge
Another Captain Obvious moment.....

Have you ever thought that maybe the reason it had to be spelled out is because many of the readers don't make that mental connection on their own ?

25 posted on 06/10/2014 5:36:06 AM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: catnipman
BTW, the article simply states the that West Antarctic ice is melting because of “climate change” without offering one iota of evidence to back that claim.

Everyone knows that the reason the West Antarctic Ice is melting is because the Sun sets in the West.

; )

26 posted on 06/10/2014 5:38:38 AM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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