Posted on 08/29/2005 1:37:32 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
The real cause of El Ninos is still obscure. However, the recent discovery of over 1,000 previously unmapped submarine volcanos rising from the seafloor in the eastern Pacific may lead to El Nino's source. The synchronous eruption of, say, 100 of these volcanos might warm the ocean around Easter Island a tad -- just enough to warm the atmosphere above a bit -- resulting in a shift of the high pressure area.
(Excerpt) Read more at science-frontiers.com ...
Sorry, I have no idea how I got two "El" in the title of this topic. From my links page:
Energy: Alberta's Tar Sands
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/536525/posts
Energy: California's crisis
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1098109/posts?page=5#5
Energy: Coal in a Nice Shade of Green (thanks neverdem)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1371023/posts
Energy: Coal-to-liquid solution for energy woes
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1174878/posts
Energy: EU in push for support on nuclear fusion reactor... (thanks AKSurprise)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1227151/posts
Energy: Fossil Fuels Made without Fossils
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1261047/posts
Energy: Heavy-Metal Nuclear Power
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1288533/posts
Energy: Here is what the acolytes of solar power don't want you to know... (thanks Boot Hill)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/946342/posts
Energy: High oil prices hurt OPEC's influence
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1229392/posts
Energy: How Long Will the Oil Age Last?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1182542/posts
Energy: Iran warns US, European pressure on nuclear could prompt oil crisis
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1356921/posts
Energy: Israel Strikes Oil ("New Find Fuels Israel's Economy")
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1208484/posts
Energy: Japan's Top Court Gives OK To Reopen Monju Fast Breeder Reactor
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1413721/posts
Energy: Major Iraq wheat deal for US
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1320310/posts
Energy: New Mystery of Water
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1325516/posts
Energy: Norton Confidently Makes Case for Alaskan Oil Drilling
http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3a6921983e0d.htm
Energy: Oil from Coal (a nice digest post from 2001)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/599330/posts
Energy: Petroleum Will Not Run Out Before We Burn Up
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1177382/posts
Energy: Resolved -- It wasn't about oil
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1311405/posts
Energy: Tumbleweeds good for uranium clean-up [DU contaminated soil cleansed, plants harvested]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1280657/posts
Energy: Warning -- the Hydrogen Economy May Be More Distant Than It Appears
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1318627/posts
Energy: Where Our Energy Will Come From
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1271331/posts
Energy: Windmills in the Sky
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1465179/posts
Energy: World's Fastest Electric Car
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1292052/posts
From your links, gas hydrates are not stable in liquid water unless it is some km below sea level.
In any case, with our current rising energy costs, expoloitation may become viable.
Thanks, interesting stuff. Especially the info on the wealth of untapped gas(es).
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