Study finds Arctic seabed afire with lava-spewing (and "huge volumes of CO2")

canada.com ^ | June 25, 2008 | Margaret Munro

[Pablo64]

"..."fountains" of gas and molten lava that have been blasting out of underwater volcanoes near the North Pole."

Hey, won't that melt...the...ice...? Oh, never mind, I forgot that my Chevy pickup is responsible for that. Silly me.

[justa-hairyape]

Right.....huge amounts of heat from the volcanos don't count, only the emissions from my SUV do. A$$holes.

Those undersea volcanoes transfer an immense amount of heat to the ocean water, which eventually affects our atmoshperic climate. None of those effects have ever been seriously factored into the Global Warming Models.

[RJL]

Study finds Arctic seabed afire with lava-spewing

Gee, I wonder if red hot lava would melt Arctic ice?
/S

[Walkingfeather]

hot magma shooting up against ice wouldnt have a melting effect right al gore?

[DariusBane]

Ok, so what is the truth?

[tubebender]

This must have set off seismographs around the world or how did they know one happened in 1999...

[RightWhale]

one volcano can produce more CO2 in one eruption than mankind can produce in his entire existence...

Rephrase: If one volcano can produce more CO2 in one eruption than mankind can produce in his entire existence then there is no oil down there.

The first statement is false, so there is no oil down there.

[Straight Vermonter]

volcanism produces about 5X10^11 kg of CO2 per year...Current fossil fuel and land use practices now introduce about a (net) 17.6X10^12 kg of CO2 into the atmosphere.

http://volcano.und.edu/vwdocs/frequent_questions/grp6/question1375.html

[Nahanni]

Because he can not make money off of them.

[Amelia]

There are no volcanoes exploding in the area right now, but they scientists say there appears to still be a lot happening on the sea floor. "I had the impression this whole central volcano area was oozing warm fluid," says Henrietta Edmonds of the University of Texas, who was on the expedition tracking the plumes of warm waters rising from the spreading ridge.

So if the heat & warm water can't melt the Arctic ice, where is it going?

[go-ken-go]

THERES AN ARTICLE ON DRUDGE RIGHT NOW THATS SAYS THERE IS A 50/50 CHANCE THERE WON’T BE ANY ICE IN THE NORTH POLE THIS SUMMER..

WONDER IF THEY KNOW ABOUT THE VOLCANOES UNDERNEATH? YA THINK

[DariusBane]

Ok,

I forgot my college logic class... lol Nicely done.

[DariusBane]

Great, so now can you tell me which is producing more, vulcanism or land use? (i have no idea what you just said).

[PeaceBeWithYou]

In one of the reports online, I read that Sohn had said at least 10 times the usual amount of CO2 released in similar eruptions.

Volcanos belch CO2 into the air, soil, and water even when they're not erupting, no one is seriously monitoring it, nor could you if you tried. I don't doubt that volcanos release more CO2 than manmade sources, lots more.

Like everything else in the climate alarmist game the assumption is that man is the culprit.

CO2 is plant food, they crave it. That CO2 levels have increased over the past 10 years while temps have cooled proves that temp and CO2 are not linked - no matter how much al's still sore wants it to be so.

[Straight Vermonter]

Volcanoes= 500,000,000,000 kg/yr of CO²

Fossil fuels=17,600,000,000,000 kg/yr of CO²

[missanne]

It depends on what your defination of is is....IMHO

[beaversmom]

For the good of the planet, we must sacrifice Al Gore to the volcano god.

[Pablo64]

I think the comparison you were looking for with volcanoes is the amount of CFC's they spew forth, not CO2.

In his book The Way Things Ought to Be, Rush Limbaugh pointed out that Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines spewed out more than a thousand times the amount of ozone-depleting chemicals in one eruption than all the CFC's manufactured by mankind in history. The comparison was a response to the ridiculous notion that mankind has the power to destroy the ozone layer, not about so-called greenhouse gasses (specifically CO2).

Does that help?

[jpsb]

Your source is full of you know what. This is a bald face lie.

"Hence, volcanism produces about 3% of the total CO2 with the other 97% coming from man-made sources.

[Straight Vermonter]

The line you quote was badly worded. The writer was comparing just the two elements in question and leaving out other large contributors like the oceans.