The polar ice caps are melting; must be global warming, right?
It might be. Or it might have a little something to do with this,
Volcanic eruptions reshape Arctic ocean floor: study
PARIS (AFP) - Recent massive volcanoes have risen from the ocean floor deep under the Arctic ice cap, spewing plumes of fragmented magma into the sea, scientists who filmed the aftermath reported Wednesday.
The eruptions — as big as the one that buried Pompei — took place in 1999 along the Gakkel Ridge, an underwater mountain chain snaking 1,800 kilometres (1,100 miles) from the northern tip of Greenland to Siberia.
Bruce McQuain of QandO points out the following,
Apparently science was convinced this couldn’t happen at the depths involved. Seems research was wrong. Sound familiar?
This is just another indication why it is insanity to rush towards the proposed, dracaonian solutions to global warming, when the research and scientific debate is so fluid, no matter what Al Gore says about it being “over”.
June 26th, 2008 at 11:11 am
Magma and Volcano’s are hot, so that’s has to be the cause, because we predetermined global warming is false and now were looking for things we can call facts to push our agenda.
unfortunately, nowhere in the article did it say that this might be a cause of arctic melting. you also didn’t link to a reputable scientist stating that this might be the cause. The connection your trying to make here is dubious at best, just like the “hey it’s warm, hey it’s cold” arguments.
Following your logic, the waters of Hawaii must be boiling and lifeless, because hey, it’s already warm there AND it’s an active volcanic region.
leave the science to the scientists buddy…
July 10th, 2008 at 5:25 pm
So… Uhuh The “scientists” that are responsible for asserting the global warming models took this into account right? I’m not saying global warming is a myth and man might have some hand in it, but I am saying that science often gets things wrong first.
Predicting the next 10 years of global warming apparently is easier than predicting next month’s weather (which we get about 3 days of reliability at best in). I think that we don’t know all the causes and these types of things need to be factored back in before asserting the doom and gloom of the eco-panicists.
Finally when talking about fraction of degree changes in weather — remember that we have only had highly accurate temperature readings for less than 100 years (meaning in 0.1 or less degree increments) from the science community. As late as the 1960s we were still “eye-balling” readings off of mercury thermometers… Just remember that data (and time) are the only ways to tell what’s really happening and we need to be open to ALL data coming in…
September 1st, 2008 at 7:00 pm
the icecaps are melting the icecaps are melting!