I'M A GLOBAL WARMING SCIENTIST NOT JUST YOUR ORDINARY RUN OF THE MILL GENIUS BUT A SUPER DOOPER GENIUS!! I CAN MAKEUP NUMBERS, THEOREMS, AND LAWS THAT DO NOT EXIST.
Posted on 04/17/2010 5:17:38 AM PDT by jerry557
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.
They said there was no sign that the current eruption from below the Eyjafjallajokull glacier that has paralysed flights over northern Europe was linked to global warming. The glacier is too small and light to affect local geology.
"Our work suggests that eventually there will be either somewhat larger eruptions or more frequent eruptions in Iceland in coming decades," said Freysteinn Sigmundsson, a vulcanologist at the University of Iceland.
"Global warming melts ice and this can influence magmatic systems," he told Reuters. The end of the Ice Age 10,000 years ago coincided with a surge in volcanic activity in Iceland, apparently because huge ice caps thinned and the land rose.
"We believe the reduction of ice has not been important in triggering this latest eruption," he said of Eyjafjallajokull. "The eruption is happening under a relatively small ice cap."
Carolina Pagli, a geophysicist at the University of Leeds in England, said there were risks that climate change could also trigger volcanic eruptions or earthquakes in places such as Mount Erebus in Antarctica, the Aleutian islands of Alaska or Patagonia in South America.
"The effects would be biggest with ice-capped volcanoes," she said. "If you remove a load that is big enough you will also have an effect at depths on magma production."
She and Sigmundsson wrote a 2008 paper in the scientific journal Geophysical Research Letters about possible links between global warming and Icelandic volcanoes.
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You know, it would be one thing if these numbnuts we call “liberals” were actually liberals.
They aren’t. They are leftists and while they are very close to socialist/communist in a lot of their views, they are also close to what the Nazi party started as....
So I don’t call them liberals anymore. They are leftists.
Easy, paint the earth white.
I see at least two hockey sticks in that drawing.
I'M A GLOBAL WARMING SCIENTIST NOT JUST YOUR ORDINARY RUN OF THE MILL GENIUS BUT A SUPER DOOPER GENIUS!! I CAN MAKEUP NUMBERS, THEOREMS, AND LAWS THAT DO NOT EXIST.
You didn't REALLY think we were going away, did you?
My thoughts exactly.....
Has anyone determined the fact that the temperature rise of the ground is causing the glacier to melt.For some reason the opposite just doesn’t make sense.
Ice keeps volcanoes from erupting? Maybe we should plug ‘em up with cement. Problem solved!;)
Good points all!
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Someone needs to compile a list of all the scare sh-t they've put out in the last few years.
The only way they'll stop is when they start repeating lies ... it's got to be a finite list, right?
bttt
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