Posted on 07/24/2008 10:51:43 PM PDT by zeestephen
Well inside the Arctic Circle, scientists have found black smoker vents farther north than anyone has ever seen before. The cluster of five vents – one towering nearly four stories in height – are venting water as hot as 570 F.
The vents are located at 73 degrees north on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge between Greenland and Norway. That's more than 120 miles from the previous northernmost vents found during a 2005 expedition.....
The area around the vents was alive with microorganisms and animals. Preliminary observations suggest that the ecosystem around these Arctic vents is diverse and appears to be unique, unlike the vent communities observed elsewhere.....
(Excerpt) Read more at sciencedaily.com ...
But, no mention.
I suspect the impact is quite small.
However, it was the first thing I thought about, so some science based data would have been appropriate and helpful.
at a minimum, it’s another thing that the completely didn’t know before.
Funny how new things just keep being discovered.
Both impactful and small.
We should build a spa there.
The top three feet of a chimney nearly 40 feet tall are visible as the arm of a remotely operated vehicle reaches in to sample fluids. The vent is part of the northernmost hydrothermal vent field yet seen and sampled. (Credit: Centre for Geobiology/U. of Bergen)
But, no mention.
What makes you think that 570 degree water might have any effect on sea ice?
Since that has the possibility of throwing cold water (pardon the pun) on the AGW theories, you must be one of those oil-company-funded holocaust climate chage deniers that I keep reading about. You guys are everywhere.
There are plenty of articles about that. In fact not long ago about some volcanic activity found under the pole ice. Try looking at "friends of science" They keep a large archive of links to articles and research papers.
The Friends of Science Society (FoS) is a Canadian non-profit group based in Calgary, Alberta, that is "made up of active and retired engineers, ...
There have always been areas of ocean in the Arctic that do not freeze over in the coldest winters. IIRC, they are called polnyas (sp?). That seems to be an area where we should be looking for upwelling warm water. There is one North of Canada among the islands. See http://www.lermanet.com/antarcticmelt/
Those vents are just so fascinating! There was a show on the Science channel the other night about ‘underwater volcanoes’, and it mentioned vents like this. They are just TEEMING with all kinds of life; some things that scientists had never seen before they found these vents.
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Not small, if as is evidently the case, there are hundreds of volcanoes etc. in the arctic venting heat into the ocean.
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