[NormsRevenge]

This image released by NASA in 2002 shows Antarctica. A powerful volcano erupted under the icesheet of West Antarctica around 2,000 years ago and it might still be active today, a finding that prompts questions about ice loss from the white continent, British scientists report on Sunday. (AFP/NASA-HO/File)

[coloradan]

Uh oh, yet another spear in the Sacred Cow.

[NormsRevenge]

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. ;-)

[RightWhale]

The location of this event would probably keep it from affecting the northern hemisphere.

[BIGLOOK]

And we are just hearing about this now?

Save the penguins.....

[CodeToad]

Cow farts and SUV tailpipes did it....2,000 years ago. Really, ask Albore, he knows.

[squidly]

That would be the same volcano that messes with the ozone layer down there, yes?

[razorback-bert]

This wider change most probably has its origin in warming ocean waters

Of course.

[pillut48]

Atlantis checking in from the Pegasus galaxy?
(Stargate reference) ;-)

[submarinerswife]

The Global Warming freaks will attack this, but it’s pretty cool. Intriguing.

[annie laurie]

Ping of possible interest.

[wastedyears]

Another hole blown in the global warming cult.

[boomop1]

Well, I won’t move there.

[kingu]

Volcanic heat "cannot explain the more widespread thinning of West Antarctic glaciers that together are contributing nearly 0.2mm (0.008 of an inch) per year to sea-level rise," he adds.

How would one be able to measure the change in the level of the sea to such an exacting standard as 0.2mm? You would need an absolutely stable rockmass to measure from which is well away from any plate tectonics, which describes absolutely no place on the planet.

[Ukiapah Heep]

Probably created by death-rays eminating from AlGore's eyes!

[rfp1234]

"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. Volcanic heat "cannot explain the more widespread thinning of West Antarctic glaciers that together are contributing nearly 0.2mm (0.008 of an inch) per year to sea-level rise," he adds. "This wider change most probably has its origin in warming ocean waters."

This 'prof' spins more than Lanny Davis doing a triple lutz. Warming ocean waters? Where did the heat come from? Undersea volcanism and sub-ocean floor methane emissions have been going on longer than those nasty SUVs.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

...global warming is by far the greater likelier cause.

Of course it is, not matter what other evidence may indicate.

Volcanic heat "cannot explain the more widespread thinning of West Antarctic glaciers that together are contributing nearly 0.2mm (0.008 of an inch) per year to sea-level rise

Let's see...if I remember my engineering correctly, that results in ...

1,000 [year] x 0.008 [inch/year] = 8 inches!

OMG. 8 inches in 1,000 years. Head for the hills! Spend trillions junking our energy infrastructure and make us all live like cave men. Deny developing countries the benefits of plentiful energy. It's a calamity!

[gitmo]

Isn’t that where Muller pulled Sculley out of the spacecraft? Must not be a natural volcano.

[steelyourfaith]

"Hot Air Cult"

~~Anthropogenic Global Warming ™ ping~~

[NormsRevenge]

Monitoring of Pine Island Glacier, Antarctica, Reveals Wide New Crack
http://nsidc.org/iceshelves/pine_island
22 March 2001

Pine Island Glacier has undergone a steady loss of elevation with retreat of the grounding line in recent decades. Now, space imagery has revealed a wide new crack that some scientists think will soon result in a calving event.

Glaciologist Robert Bindschadler of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center predicts this crack will result in the calving of a major iceberg, probably in less than 18 months.

Discovery of the crack was possible due to multi-year image archives and high resolution imagery. “This multi-year archive of Landsat 7 images is an invaluable investment in research on Antarctica,” says Bindschadler.

ASTER and MODIS images can also shed light features of the Antarctic surface, including the recently discovered crack. NASA’s Earth Observing System, for which NSIDC is a distributed active archive center, distributes both MODIS and ASTER data in addition to Landsat data.

[John123]

Well, they say even a broken watch is right twice a day. Melting ice? Dead Polar Bears and Penguins? GLOBAL WARMING!!!