Global warming to lead to more volcano eruptions, researchers warn

Express.co.uk ^ | April 16, 2018 | by Sean Martin

[Oldeconomybuyer]

GLOBAL warming could lead to huge volcanic eruptions across the globe which could wipe out millions of people, researchers have warned.

Scientists state that the world is steadily warming, which is leading to the polar ice caps melting.

However, as the ice in the north and south poles continues to melt, this could lead to the eruptions of volcanoes.

This is because ice sheets and glaciers can help to maintain the structure of volcanoes and mountains.

Gioachino Roberti, a PhD student at the University of Clermont Auvergne, said: “Imagine the ice like some sort of protective layer – when the ice melts away, the mountain is free to collapse.

“If your mountain is a volcano you have another problem.

“Volcanoes are a pressurised system and if you remove pressure by ice melting and landslide, you have a problem.”

[Rocky]

Incredibly stupid.

Phd no longer has any meaning.

[Wizdum]

Sorry, maybe I should have used the word ‘redistributes’ instead of ‘add’.

[GOPJ]

The core of the Earth has been cooling by some miniscule amount every year for the past 4 Billion or more years. There’s less energy available in the core than before. While there may be peaks and valleys, the overall graph of volcanic activity must trend downward.

Would that be by an imperceptible amount every hundred years?