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NASA Discovers Mantle Plume Almost as Hot as Yellowstone Supervolcano That's Melting Antarctica
Newsweek ^ | Nov 8, 2017 | Hannah Osborne

Posted on 11/09/2017 3:47:05 AM PST by smileyface

A mantle plume producing almost as much heat as Yellowstone supervolcano appears to be melting part of West Antarctica from beneath.

Researchers at NASA have discovered a huge upwelling of hot rock under Marie Byrd Land, which lies between the Ross Ice Shelf and the Ross Sea, is creating vast lakes and rivers under the ice sheet. The presence of a huge mantle plume could explain why the region is so unstable today, and why it collapsed so quickly at the end of the last Ice Age, 11,000 years ago.

(Excerpt) Read more at newsweek.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Technical
KEYWORDS: antarctica; antartica; catastrophism; chatforum; climatechangehoax; earthcore; globalwarming; globalwarminghoax; iceage; mantle; nasa; rossiceshelf; rosssea; science
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To: smileyface

It’s the Mojo risin...


41 posted on 11/09/2017 6:02:02 AM PST by PTBAA
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To: Sacajaweau

Actually a British team reported on this about 10 years ago. They reported mainly on the effect. NASA has done a commendable job of detailing and analyzing the cause. This is an example of how science should work.


42 posted on 11/09/2017 6:39:51 AM PST by CMAC51
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To: smileyface
We must spend trillions of dollars to install a refrigeration system to cool the region below West Antarctica!

Anyone who is close buddies with Algore, get word to him so he can start investing in refrigeration stock before the releases his new movie "An Inconvenient Warming Mantle Truth." The temperature down there must be a billion degrees and we must stop it.

43 posted on 11/09/2017 6:39:54 AM PST by Right Wing Assault (Kill: NFL, Hollywood, NBA, BLM, CAIR, Antifa, SPLC, CNN, ESPN, NPR, TWITTER, FACEBOOK)
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To: null and void

Wife probably sensed that I laughed at that....unpleasantries await me..


44 posted on 11/09/2017 6:45:28 AM PST by jughandle (Big words anger me, keep talking.)
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To: CMAC51
I had a circa 1850 book detailing these ocean volcanoes, how they work and what they spew. Wish I still had the book.

Also have/had an old map c 1900 showing hot spots in the Pacific. Probably still have that.....somewhere.

45 posted on 11/09/2017 6:47:34 AM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: smileyface

Newsweak had a “what if” article a couple of months ago about newly discovered sub-glacial volcanoes in the Antarctic, and worried about what if several of them went off in a short time.


46 posted on 11/09/2017 6:58:15 AM PST by VanShuyten ("...that all the donkeys were dead. I know nothing as to the fate of the less valuable animals.")
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To: 75thOVI; Abathar; agrace; aimhigh; Alice in Wonderland; AndrewC; aragorn; aristotleman; ...
Thanks smileyface.

47 posted on 11/09/2017 7:15:43 AM PST by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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To: CMAC51

True.

I remember reading about the initial findings. I also remember people saying it was fake.


48 posted on 11/09/2017 7:49:52 AM PST by redgolum
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To: smileyface

I’ve already seen people saying “this doesn’t disprove climate change as the major cause of melting, it is just a modifier for the models”.
In short, melting ice is still mostly due to the cause we say justifies our political demands.


49 posted on 11/09/2017 7:53:51 AM PST by tbw2
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To: smileyface; CondorFlight; Sacajaweau
I read about this, must be 15 years ago, around 1990, when the climate hysterians were just putting up their megaphones. I remember thinking, "Yeah, uh-huh, having volcanically active hotspots under the Western Antarctic would probably influence glacier melting, ocean water temp and all the rest of it. Nothing to do with CO2."

So, surprise, surprise.

The great thing is, that under a Trump Administration, they can finally say it.

We're OK now. Everybody exhale.

50 posted on 11/09/2017 7:59:50 AM PST by Mrs. Don-o (C - O - 2, I love you!)
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To: bmwcyle

I don’t think this would have been published under the previous administration. I was wondering how we could get to that pure water.


51 posted on 11/09/2017 8:12:18 AM PST by huldah1776 ( Vote Pro-life! Allow God to bless America before He avenges the death of the innocent.)
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To: smileyface

‘The Thing’ left the engine running after crashing is all


52 posted on 11/09/2017 9:31:13 AM PST by i_robot73 ("A man chooses. A slave obeys." - Andrew Ryan)
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To: Gay State Conservative

Our dumb as rock governor Inslee (D), Washington, is licking his chops at advancing climate change policy with the now majority Democrat led legislature.


53 posted on 11/09/2017 9:36:52 AM PST by shotgun
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To: CondorFlight
You mean Al Gore was wrong, and it’s not melting because of the cow population in the US?

Al has sent some mixed messages on the subject, don't you think?


54 posted on 11/09/2017 10:11:52 AM PST by Charles Martel (Progressives are the crab grass in the lawn of life.)
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To: smileyface

So commies can stop whining about the melting of ice due to man made global warming now? (ha ha)


55 posted on 11/09/2017 11:48:40 AM PST by SaraJohnson ( Whites must sue for racism. It's pay day.)
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To: jughandle; PeatownPaul; smileyface; All

I need a biggish vehicle because I am renovating some houses—Home Depot, Lowes, the dump visits. But I hate to pay for gasoline. Nearly cried when my 1996 Dodge Caravan, 4 cylinder gave up on me. My fear was I would not find a good 4 cylinder vehicle. Now I have a brand new Ford Transit Connect, longer edition with 2 front seats. Love it and get very good mileage with it’s 4 cylinders. On long trips I can get a good rest on the mattress I put in the rear while my guy drives.


56 posted on 11/11/2017 5:21:12 PM PST by gleeaikin
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To: Right Wing Assault; CMAC51; smileyface; Sacajaweau; SunkenCiv; tbw2; Mrs. Don-o; All

Actually if this superplume does what SPs often do, that is blow sky high with giant ash falls, then we are in big trouble. A huge quantity of ash on the snowy surface of Antarctica would speed up melting of the snow under the ash as the sun’s heat was absorbed by the ash. Thus we would have the one two punch of tremendous heat from the blast plus long term heating from the sun on the ash fall. Has anyone estimated the amount of sea level rise from such a scenario?


57 posted on 11/11/2017 5:37:06 PM PST by gleeaikin
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To: huldah1776; Right Wing Assault; CMAC51; smileyface; Sacajaweau; SunkenCiv; tbw2; Mrs. Don-o; ...

There is a lot of interesting information at the continuation of the posted article. In addition here is an interesting link about what could happen if the volcanic activity increased significantly. Two dates of “Catastrophism” interest in the articles are 11,000 and 18,000 years ago when significant things happened to this ice sheet area.

http://www.newsweek.com/antarctica-subglacial-volcanoes-eruption-risk-sea-ice-659537?utm_source=internal&utm_campaign=right&utm_medium=related3


58 posted on 11/11/2017 6:02:56 PM PST by gleeaikin
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To: gleeaikin

Thanks for the links. I love catastrophes. Only because I simply imagine I’m not there.


59 posted on 11/12/2017 8:57:57 AM PST by Mrs. Don-o (Stone cold sober, as a matter of fact.)
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To: smileyface

In related news, geologists have named the feature Algore ‘s Butt, noting that polar bears are dying.


60 posted on 11/12/2017 9:01:18 AM PST by ameribbean expat (Veritas Vincit)
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