Doom and Gloom for Ice Saviours

[Manonthestreet]

A team of scientists unearthed a volcanic region previously hidden under ice sheets, with the geologist who led the team warning of destabilising consequences.

Edinburgh University researchers uncovered almost 100 volcanoes – with the highest almost as tall as Switzerland's 3,970-metre Eiger. Scientists uncover 91 volcanoes under Antarctica ice | Daily Mail Online
Anyone looking at warmists to save them is an idiot. They have no understanding of cause and effect as the model failures attest. They are in it for the money and power.

 

[Billy_Bob]

A team of scientists unearthed a volcanic region previously hidden under ice sheets, with the geologist who led the team warning of destabilising consequences.

Edinburgh University researchers uncovered almost 100 volcanoes – with the highest almost as tall as Switzerland's 3,970-metre Eiger. Scientists uncover 91 volcanoes under Antarctica ice | Daily Mail Online
Anyone looking at warmists to save them is an idiot. They have no understanding of cause and effect as the model failures attest. They are in it for the money and power.

I was reading this article earlier today and its stunning how little anyone knew and we have barley scratched the surface. Literally.

 

[Billy_Bob]

Speaking of Volcanoes.. The shield volcanoes (Mt St Helen's, Mt Shasta, and many others) along the west coast are showing signs of coming to life. Earth quakes and land deformations of 7 volcanoes has been seen in the last two months. Even Yellowstone has had over 779 earth quakes and minor deformation in the last two weeks.

It appears that we may be entering an active time world wide.

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July seismicity in Yellowstone was marked by the ongoing seismicity ~six miles north of West Yellowstone, MT where an energetic swarm added an additional 475 earthquakes in July to the 1028 earthquakes in June. The swarm includes the largest event of the month on July 18 (magnitude 3.6). Swarm activity for July consists of two earthquakes in the magnitude 3 range and 40 earthquakes in the magnitude 2 range. Including the events from last month beginning on June 12, total swarm seismicity includes one earthquake of magnitude 4.4, seven in the magnitude 3 range, and 112 earthquakes in the magnitude 2 range.

Earthquake sequences like these are common and account for roughly 50% of the total seismicity in the Yellowstone region.

Yellowstone earthquake activity is currently at elevated levels compared with typical background activity.


Ground deformation

Monitored locations within the Yellowstone Caldera show minimal change this month. Uplift north of the caldera, centered near the Norris Geyser Basin continues at a low rate. Behavior is similar to the past several months. Current deformation patterns at Yellowstone remain within historical norms.

 

[Old Rocks]

Damn, Silly Billy, you are dumb beyond description. We have only one shield volcano in Oregon, Newberry. The rest are strato volcanoes. And, no, the volcanoes in the Cascades are not overly restless right now.

 

[Old Rocks]

A team of scientists unearthed a volcanic region previously hidden under ice sheets, with the geologist who led the team warning of destabilising consequences.

Edinburgh University researchers uncovered almost 100 volcanoes – with the highest almost as tall as Switzerland's 3,970-metre Eiger. Scientists uncover 91 volcanoes under Antarctica ice | Daily Mail Online
Anyone looking at warmists to save them is an idiot. They have no understanding of cause and effect as the model failures attest. They are in it for the money and power.

Volcanoes are not very good at melting ice. In Washington State we have a growing glacier right beside a growing, steaming pile of lava rock inside the crater of St. Helens.

 

[Manonthestreet]

A team of scientists unearthed a volcanic region previously hidden under ice sheets, with the geologist who led the team warning of destabilising consequences.

Edinburgh University researchers uncovered almost 100 volcanoes – with the highest almost as tall as Switzerland's 3,970-metre Eiger. Scientists uncover 91 volcanoes under Antarctica ice | Daily Mail Online
Anyone looking at warmists to save them is an idiot. They have no understanding of cause and effect as the model failures attest. They are in it for the money and power.

Volcanoes are not very good at melting ice. In Washington State we have a growing glacier right beside a growing, steaming pile of lava rock inside the crater of St. Helens.

Now go read the article......science denier

Glacier expert Robert Bingham, who helped author the paper, warned The Guardianthe range could have worrying consequences.

'If one of these volcanoes were to erupt it could further destabilise west Antarctica’s ice sheets.

'Anything that causes the melting of ice – which an eruption certainly would – is likely to speed up the flow of ice into the sea.

 

[Old Rocks]

Temporarily. The ice closes up in Iceland after their volcanoes erupt. The worse effect would be to put more water under the ice and lubricate the glaciers. But it would be only temporary. Other than shied volcanoes, that is kind of how volcanoes work.

 

[Manonthestreet]

Temporarily. The ice closes up in Iceland after their volcanoes erupt. The worse effect would be to put more water under the ice and lubricate the glaciers. But it would be only temporary. Other than shied volcanoes, that is kind of how volcanoes work.

Alrdy being blamed for melting ............since 2014.....Researchers find major West Antarctic glacier melting from geothermal sources

 

[Old Rocks]

Scientists find 91 new volcanoes under Antarctic ice sheet
The volcanoes were not previously identified because their tops do not break through the surface of the Antarctic ice sheet.

It is unclear whether the Antarctic volcanoes are active, but previous studies have suggested that during warmer periods volcanic activity does occur in the region.

If the ice thins as the climate warms it is thought volcanic activity in the area could increase.

The project was carried out by researchers from the University of Edinburgh who remotely surveyed the underside of the ice sheet.

They were looking for peaks of basalt rock hidden beneath the ice, like the volcanoes that were already known about in the area.

Measurements from ice-penetrating radar were compared with satellite and database records, as well as information from aerial surveys and revealed 91 peaks.

It is hoped the discovery will allow scientists to understand how volcanoes affect long-term fluctuations in the ice sheet as well as what the continent was like in past climates.

Scientists find 91 volcanoes under Antarctic ice

Thus far, it looks as if these are not that big a deal. However, a thinning ice sheet could change that. The primary melt of ice in the Antarctic is coming from a warming ocean.

 

[Manonthestreet]

Deniers deny...............

 

[Old Rocks]

Researchers find major West Antarctic glacier melting from geothermal sources

The findings of lead author Dusty Schroeder and his colleagues show that the glacier sits on something more like a multi-burner stovetop with burners putting out heat at different levels at different locations.

"It's the most complex thermal environment you might imagine," said co-author Don Blankenship, a senior research scientist at UTIG and Schroeder's Ph.D. adviser. "And then you plop the most critical dynamically unstable ice sheet on planet Earth in the middle of this thing, and then you try to model it. It's virtually impossible."

That's why, he said, getting a handle on the distribution of geothermal heat flow under the ice sheet has been considered essential for understanding it.

Gathering knowledge about Thwaites Glacier is crucial to understanding what might happen to the West Antarctic Ice Sheet. An outlet glacier the size of Florida in the Amundsen Sea Embayment, it is up to 4,000 meters thick and is considered a key question mark in making projections of global sea level rise.

The glacier is retreating in the face of the warming ocean and is thought to be unstable because its interior lies more than two kilometers below sea level while, at the coast, the bottom of the glacier is quite .shallow

Because its interior connects to the vast portion of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet that lies deeply below sea level, the glacier is considered a gateway to the majority of West Antarctica's potential sea level contribution.

Researchers find major West Antarctic glacier melting from geothermal sources

But the warming ocean remains the primary cause of the retreat.

 

[Old Rocks]

Deniers deny...............

LOL Show me where I denied that volcanoes can melt ice.