Massive volcano exploded under Antarctic icesheet, study finds

AFP on Yahoo ^ | 1/20/08 | AFP

[dr_lew]

The 2004 Sumatran tsunami was measured across the entire world.

So that entailed measurements accurate to ... what ? 0.00000001 mm ?

Believe it or not you can achieve extreme accuracy in sea level measurement.

Be precise.

[Colorado Doug]

He also speaks to NASA’s top scientist studying climate, who says the Bush administration has restricted what he can say about global warming.

It's a shame that NASA doesn't seem to be much involved with space exploration anymore. I can remember a time when NASA could actually put a man on the moon.

[djf]

I have never understood people emphasizing that most of the worlds fresh water is in Antarctica.

It’s like saying most of the worlds hot babes are on the moon or something.

I mean, I don’t here people saying, when they’re thirsty, “Dam! I’m thirsty! Wish I wuz in Antarctica!”

[ValerieTexas]

"It may be possible that heat from the volcano has caused some of that acceleration," says BAS professor David Vaughan, who stresses though that global warming is by far the greater likelier cause.

snicker snicker -- I saw that one coming! OF COURSE he says that Global Warming is mostly responsible, he wants to keep his job. Denial of Man-caused GW is heresy. They don't even want to admit the sun has anything to do with the earth's climate. It's just not scientific.

[aruanan]

"It may be possible that heat from the volcano has caused some of that acceleration," says BAS professor David Vaughan, who stresses though that global warming is by far the greater likelier cause.

Notice the pathetic genuflection.

[NotJustAnotherPrettyFace]

Now, someone organize a concert for Musicians Against Volcanoes.

I can do that. Actually my group can headline it :-).

We'll start off by singing "Steam Heat" (from the musical, "The Pajama Game").

[Grimmy]

Pretty cool :)

[SunkenCiv]

One little volcano under the ice sheet... I mean, c’mon... what possible effect could that have on melting? Be serious. ;’)

[SunkenCiv]

Antarctic volcanoes identified as a possible culprit in glacier melting
International Herald Tribune | January 20, 2008 | Kenneth Chang
Posted on 01/20/2008 11:02:37 PM EST by RDTF
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1956913/posts

[SunkenCiv]

Heh...

contributing nearly 0.2mm (0.008 of an inch) per year to sea-level rise

A .2 mm sealevel rise is not measurable. Of course that comes in handy when one wants to claim that the sealevel is rising but doesn't want to offer any evidence. But regardless, it's the long term impact we need to worry about. Why, in a hundred years, that will add up to, uh, 20 mm...

[Sacajaweau]

I like to think of the Universe as a dynamic, undulating mass, constantly adjusting itself to the nature of the Universe to stabilize itself.

[Fresh Wind]

...the slab of frozen water, hundreds of metres (feet) thick in places, that holds most of the world's stock of fresh water.

So, rain comes directly from this glacier? Who knew!

[Fresh Wind]

A .2 mm sealevel rise is not measurable.

That 0.2mm figure is based on an average sea level rise over the last century or two. Scientists know with great certainty what the sea level was in the 1800s, so they know that this figure is accurate.

[YOUGOTIT]

According to: Alexandre Aguiar, MetSul Weather Center, Brazil

“Southern Hemisphere’s ice cover now is at the same level as last June, i.e., a level seen during the last winter in the Southern Hemisphere. Besides, there are two more millions square kilometers of ice now compared to December 2006. And the large positive anomaly has persisted since September.”

So the volcano should be heating up the ground so the ice sheet will flown down hill at a faster rate. Because ice as water only flows down hill not up hill.

[SunkenCiv]

20mm (a century of rise) is less than an inch, about which there can’t be “great certainty”, and there isn’t any such rise recorded all over the world. If there were, there wouldn’t be any way to connect it to anything but natural climate change. At different periods (most recently, the Medieval Warming) the sealevel was higher, while at other different periods the sealevel was lower; there aren’t exact figures, merely the former presence of seaports either well above sealevel (as in some former English ports) and below sealevel.

[UCANSEE2]

First, the planet is expanding in size.

Millions of tons of water droplets pelt the Earth from outer space continuously.

Millions of tons of space dust also pelt the Earth.

Then there are asteroids and meteorites that have crashed into the Earth.

You cannot add mass to a sphere without an accompanying increase in volume.

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Second. Measuring the sea level at the coastlines is analagous to measuring the speed of the galaxy through space.

Just where is the ‘non-moving’ spot in the universe that we are basing this measurement on?

Likewise, there are claims that we are at the center of the Universe.

Just where, in an INFINITE UNIVERSE, would one find the center?

[SunkenCiv]

slowly but surely (most of the time), like sands through an hourglass...

Small Comets and Our Origins
University of Iowa | circa 1999 | Louis A. Frank
Posted on 10/20/2004 2:13:25 AM EDT by SunkenCiv
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1250694/posts

An Argument for the Cometary Origin of the Biosphere
American Scientist | September-October 2001 | Armand H. Delsemme
Posted on 09/06/2004 8:16:38 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1208497/post

Clandestine comets found in main asteroid belt - Earth oceans origin
newscientist space | 23 March 2006
Posted on 03/24/2006 5:26:05 AM EST by S0122017
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1602203/posts

[BillT]

This explains the growing ice sheet!

[Gandalf_The_Gray]

That 0.2mm figure is based on an average sea level rise over the last century or two. Scientists know with great certainty what the sea level was in the 1800s, so they know that this figure is accurate.

Please cite your source for those assertions.

I would like to know which "scientists" we are talking about and where they published their study. Please quantify the "certainty" with a numerical estimate of measurement precision as well as the actual magnitude of the "average rise". With those facts in hand we will be able to judge if indeed "this figure is accurate".

Regards,
GtG

[uglybiker]

It’s really the mole people getting ready to launch flying saucers from their under-icesheet base to take over the world... but you didn’t hear it here. ;-)

Of course not. It came from Ron Paul supporters! :-P