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

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

[steelyourfaith]

 

Beam me to The Top of the World !

[NoLibZone]

Russia will have a substantial Carbon Tax bill.

[theBuckwheat]

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Volcanoes= 500,000,000,000 kg/yr of CO2
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Does this figure include these newly discovered vents and their “huge volumes”?

[jpsb]

It is not possible to categorize the amount of CO2 from "volcanism", simplely not possible. Sometimes volcanoes put out a get deal of CO2 sometime they don't. It all depends on which volcano is erupting. A small eruption like Mt Saint Helens, not too much CO2, a super eruption like Toba (could at super volcano be erupting right now under the Arctic?) lots.

Personally I do not believe your source, I think it is agenda driven.

[DariusBane]

Yes, thank you. I keep wondering what happened to the hole in the ozone. I am still scared of that, yet the greenies want me to move on to being afraid of global warming. I’m just not ready to make the change yet.

[Pablo64]

Well, you may be smart to wait to make the change. I think the greenies are now moving away from global warming to global “climate change”. That way, it doesn’t matter what happens, you can still panic. It’s really very convenient.

[DariusBane]

Thank goodness for that. If the time ever comes that I can live without anxiety then I will have to remove a limb with a rusty saw so that I can worry about something. Thanks so much for your encouraging words.

[SunkenCiv]

Note: this topic is from June.

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[Mike Darancette]

In the valley where the two crustal plates are coming apart, which is about 12 kilometres across, they found dozens of distinctive flat-topped volcanoes that appear to have erupted in 1999, producing the layer of dark, smoky volcanic glass on the seabed.

Wasn't 1999 about the time that the multi-year ice started to thin out?

[Mike Darancette]

Of course this does not include volcanoes that we don’t know about. The earth is 70% ocean...

[Mike Darancette]

So there are no sources of CO2 other than volcanoes and Fossel Fuels?

[Straight Vermonter]

Please show me where I said that. I’ll wait for 2 months for your next post on the topic.

[Mike Darancette]

Please show me where I said that.

Those are the only two sources of CO2 that you listed. So seldom are the other sources of CO2 are quantified. I wonder why?