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Ice cap thaw may awaken Icelandic volcanoes
Reuters ^ | April, 16, 2010 | Alister Doyle

Posted on 04/16/2010 6:22:42 PM PDT by apillar

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.

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TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: catastrophism; climatechange; globaloney; globalwarminghoax; manbearpig; stuckonstupid
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To: apillar

Sure, why not. Didn’t Danny Glover say that global warming is to blame for all the current earthquakes?


81 posted on 04/16/2010 7:13:51 PM PDT by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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To: apillar
We knew this was coming

Ecclesiastes 1:9
The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.

82 posted on 04/16/2010 7:19:34 PM PDT by Theophilus ('a dog is smarter than its tail', but if the tail were smarter, then the tail would 'wag the dog'.)
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To: Psycho_Bunny
The greater part of the ice on top of Iceland disappeared for the most part about 13,000 years ago. The amount that's been there since has been a quite modest percentage.
83 posted on 04/16/2010 7:20:19 PM PDT by muawiyah ("Git Out The Way")
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To: Psycho_Bunny
Actually, wouldn’t the greater amounts of ice increase the pressure of the magma and lead to bigger eruptions?

There is some truth to what they are saying but it is counterbalanced by factual inaccuracies in their claims. Here's why: overburden does in fact cap magma, specifically it keeps dissolved gasses in solution. Mount St. Helens is a prime example of an earthquake causing a landslide which relieved overburden which caused dissolved gasses to "boil out" resulting in a massive volcanic explosion. Problem is, icelandic vulcanism is from a mid-oceanic ridge and is therefore basaltic. Basaltic magmas are MUCH less viscous (e.g. more fluid) than the continental rhyolite/dacite composition of Mount St. Helens, which is more like gas charged toothpaste, and therefore exsolved gasses are not explosively released but rather gently vented. So they've jumbled some science in with some misconceptions and packaged it up as some sort of scientific mumbo-jumbo which in the final analysis ain't worth squat.
84 posted on 04/16/2010 7:23:18 PM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: apillar

But if the ice doesn’t melt and all of that weight remains, Iceland will capsize!!


85 posted on 04/16/2010 7:23:22 PM PDT by mikey_hates_everything
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To: cripplecreek

Isn’t nature lovely? According to your theory, nature is self-correcting and in perfect harmony with itself. I just love it when things work out in the end.


86 posted on 04/16/2010 7:26:28 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: rmlew

;’)


87 posted on 04/16/2010 7:29:36 PM PDT by SunkenCiv ("Fools learn from experience. I prefer to learn from the experience of others." -- Otto von Bismarck)
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To: apillar

It’s silly theory. But consider what it would mean for the AGW theory were it true: it would mean they left out a massive negative feedback mechanism in all their computer models that purport to show catastrophic warming.


88 posted on 04/16/2010 7:30:23 PM PDT by The_Reader_David (And when they behead your own people in the wars which are to come, then you will know. . .)
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To: apillar

They don’t need no globull warming to melt the glaciers; the volcanoes will do the job on their own.


89 posted on 04/16/2010 7:30:24 PM PDT by Mike Darancette (The Tree of Liberty ....)
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To: apillar

Perfect! This way, they can blame The Cooling on The Warming!


90 posted on 04/16/2010 7:30:35 PM PDT by Travis McGee (---www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com---)
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To: SpaceBar

I was just being a smart ass but you’ve sparked my interest in the subject. Thanks.


91 posted on 04/16/2010 7:32:05 PM PDT by Psycho_Bunny (Socialism is for people who've given up.)
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To: J Edgar

If you want to push your erroneous agenda you’ll have to come up with a lie.


92 posted on 04/16/2010 7:35:33 PM PDT by 353FMG (What can Islam possibly contribute to America other than its destruction?)
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To: Smokin' Joe; Ezekiel

The people who think volcanic eruptions are caused *by* ‘climate change’ got it ash-backwards...


93 posted on 04/16/2010 7:41:45 PM PDT by mikrofon (Big Eyjafjallajokfullation)
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To: HereInTheHeartland

” I think now my chocolate lab is sophisticated enough to have a career in journalism.”

“That awful power, the public opinion of a nation, is created in America by a horde of ignorant, self-complacent simpletons who failed at ditching and shoe making and fetched up in journalism on their way to the poor house.”

— Mark Twain

“Laziness has become the chief characteristic of journalism, displacing incompetence.”

— Kingsley Amis

Amis had obviously not read Doyle, or he would have realized that certain people can absolutely embrace BOTH characteristics.

Doyle’s ignorance is encyclopedic!


94 posted on 04/16/2010 7:41:58 PM PDT by hadit2here ("Most men would rather die than think. Many do." - Bertrand Russell)
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To: dynachrome; Amagi; rdl6989; Tunehead54; Clive; Little Bill; tubebender; marvlus; IrishCatholic; ...
Thanx !

 


Beam me to Planet Gore !

95 posted on 04/16/2010 7:42:54 PM PDT by steelyourfaith (Warmists as "traffic light" apocalyptics: "Greens too yellow to admit they're really Reds."-Monckton)
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To: apillar

Well if that happens Global Warming is done for - since these same scientists admit that vulcanic activity in the past has actually helped cool the earth’s atmosphere, significantly increased activity in the future would lead to much more cooling, thus putting a brake on warming - a pretty neat auto-correction mechanism - thanks, Mother Nature.....


96 posted on 04/16/2010 7:51:57 PM PDT by Intolerant in NJ
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To: Hillbillary
#64

I just know I have seen those ears somewhere. Give me a minute...

97 posted on 04/16/2010 7:52:13 PM PDT by gov_bean_ counter (Obie Wan Nairobi from the 1/2 dark side. The farce strong with this one, it is...)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege; Cobra64

>>And I’m still waiting for the first Freeper to say “It’s Bush’s fault.”

Oh, I’m sure that has been done already, but I’m not going to go dig through the threads to find it.

Oh, heck, that’s just a challenge. AAAAAND . . .

Here it is:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2476151/posts

Post 2 on that thread, by Cobra64. Three weeks ago!


98 posted on 04/16/2010 7:59:36 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (No Representation without Taxation!)
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To: apillar

What a maroon! Everyone knows that the ice and snow cause the magma to generate more pressure resulting
in a bigger explosion when it finally does blow! By melting off some excess ice
we are reducing the blast pressure.

See how easy it is to manufacture science!


99 posted on 04/16/2010 8:00:18 PM PDT by soycd
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To: Jeff Chandler

I beat that. I found one from 3 weeks ago.


100 posted on 04/16/2010 8:00:19 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (No Representation without Taxation!)
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