[JmyBryan]

Scientific consensus has determined that plumes of this nature have no measurable effect on ocean temperatures. /s

[crusty old prospector]

I guess back in igneous petrology, we were taught that these were called “hotspots.” The Hawaiian Islands have been formed as they moved across it to form the volcanoes that form the chains.

[A.Hun]

In February, the PLUME data will be publicly available and researchers can decide for themselves whether plumes really exist. Accepting the new results is "going to take time for people," Wolfe says. "I'm optimistic, but in science you never know."

Hmmmm..Phil Jones and his cabal should take notice of how science is supposed to work.

[skeeter]

I’d love to see an illustration of this effect.

[JimSEA]

Similar data are also coming from a group running a seismology array in Yellowstone.

That should be interesting, one plume under the sea bed and one under the crust.

[Auntie Dem]

Don’t get too excited about this. It could be a complete fabrication, with falsified data and all. Remember this is from Nature. Didn’t they recently come out defending the UEA Climate Frauds, and claiming they did nothing wrong?

Birds of a feather...

[SunkenCiv]

But What About The Hawaiian Volcanic Chain?
Science Frontiers ONLINE
No. 103: Jan-Feb 1996
http://www.science-frontiers.com/sf103/sf103g10.htm

[SunkenCiv]

Wandering hot spots worry geologists
by Betsy Mason

"Hot spots" where plumes of molten magma break through the Earth's crust appear to be wandering across the planet - a discovery that undermines many of the accepted ideas about how the Earth's tectonic plates are moving... [A] new study by Robert Duncan of Oregon State University in Corvallis and his colleagues shows that the Hawaiian hot spot has probably shifted... "People suspected that hot spots were moving," says geologist Robert Butler of the University of Arizona in Tuscon. "But the one they all wanted to hang onto was the biggest, baddest hot spot of them all - the Hawaiian hot spot."

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks neverdem.

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