[decimon]

Caption: This images shows bands of glowing magma from submarine volcano.

Credit: NOAA/National Science Foundation

Usage Restrictions: None

[decimon]

Low blow ping.

[ottbmare]

This business about volcanoes releasing CO2—this is absolute nonsense. The concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere is entirely due to selfish Americans driving SUVs and pickup trucks we don’t really need. And to our absurd insistence upon using electricity, too!

[Deaf Smith]

http://www.volcano.si.edu/world/vol_extra.cfm?name=Fiji_Pumice#sean_1302
Wouldn't it be easier to study pumice, floating in the ocean than ash on a island to prove that undersea volcanoes can explode?

[a fool in paradise]

The West MUST raise taxes to prevent any further global geologic change!

[DaxtonBrown]

If sub sea volcanoes are releasing CO2, doesn’t that suggest vast deep hydrocarbon deposits?

[norwaypinesavage]

"Given that mid-ocean ridges constitute the largest volcanic system on Earth, this discovery has important implications for the global carbon cycle which have yet to be explored."

Don't worry, the EPA will fix this. They can simply prohibit US citizens from exhaling for two months after each underwater eruption.

[aruanan]

It’s been known for quite a while that the increasing amount of atmospheric CO2 is much greater than can be explained by anthropogenic CO2, especially since the increase started before the beginning of the Industrial Revolution.

[aruanan]

By using an ion microprobe, Christoph Helo, a PhD student in McGill's Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, has now discovered very high concentrations of CO2 in droplets of magma trapped within crystals recovered from volcanic ash deposits on Axial Volcano on the Juan de Fuca Ridge, off the coast of Oregon.

Oh jeez! Now our selfish Western lifestyle is even polluting the undersea magma!

[aruanan]

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Whoo hoo! I spent a whole summer there.

[bmwcyle]

And submarines can hit what they produce.