Volcanic eruptions reshape Arctic ocean floor: study

[actsnoblemartin]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080625...yoceansvolcano

PARIS (AFP) - Recent massive volcanoes have risen from the ocean floor deep under the Arctic ice cap, spewing plumes of fragmented magma into the sea, scientists who filmed the aftermath reported Wednesday.

The eruptions -- as big as the one that buried Pompei -- took place in 1999 along the Gakkel Ridge, an underwater mountain chain snaking 1,800 kilometres (1,100 miles) from the northern tip of Greenland to Siberia.

[retiredman]

congratulations on at least being able to spell arctic correctly. Our more learned members seem incapable of that.

[Gaffer]

Yurt beat you to it on this one Martin. we have already determined it's Bush's fault.

[Chessplayer]

Is this study part of the preparation to claim that the article below is unfounded?

http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/weathe...ing/index.html

(CNN) -- The North Pole may be briefly ice-free by September as global warming melts away Arctic sea ice, according to scientists from the National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder, Colorado.

[Gaffer]

Is this study part of the preparation to claim that the article below is unfounded?

http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/weathe...ing/index.html

(CNN) -- The North Pole may be briefly ice-free by September as global warming melts away Arctic sea ice, according to scientists from the National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder, Colorado.

What are those "scientists going to say when the ice doesn't melt?

[retiredman]

What are those "scientists going to say when the ice doesn't melt?

what will YOU say when it does?

[MtnBiker]

speculation

[Gaffer]

what will YOU say when it does?

It won't so I won't have to say anything. I'll just smile and say told you so.

[retiredman]

It won't so I won't have to say anything. I'll just smile and say told you so.

weasel-like dodge

[Gaffer]

weasel-like dodge

[MtnBiker]

The eruptions are estimated to have happened in 1999 and are recently discovered. Have climate models accounted for this in the last 9 years? And how do climate models estimate such activity in the future?

[Yurt]

The eruptions are estimated to have happened in 1999 and are recently discovered. Have climate models accounted for this in the last 9 years? And how do climate models estimate such activity in the future?

unfortunately, you will most likely have a resounding silence from the far left enviros

[MtnBiker]

It won't so I won't have to say anything. I'll just smile and say told you so.

Here is an update.


http://wattsupwiththat.wordpress.com...osphere-today/

and

http://wattsupwiththat.wordpress.com...2008-how-much/

[Gaffer]

Here is an update.


http://wattsupwiththat.wordpress.com...osphere-today/

and

http://wattsupwiththat.wordpress.com...2008-how-much/

Well, now I can say I told him so. The end of the summer is here and there is still lots of ice at the pole.

[MtnBiker]

Alaska glaciers grew this year, thanks to colder weather
By Craig Medred | Anchorage Daily News
Two hundred years of glacial shrinkage in Alaska, and then came the winter and summer of 2007-2008.

Unusually large amounts of winter snow were followed by unusually chill temperatures in June, July and August.

"In mid-June, I was surprised to see snow still at sea level in Prince William Sound," said U.S. Geological Survey glaciologist Bruce Molnia. "On the Juneau Icefield, there was still 20 feet of new snow on the surface of the Taku Glacier in late July. At Bering Glacier, a landslide I am studying, located at about 1,500 feet elevation, did not become snow free until early August.

"In general, the weather this summer was the worst I have seen in at least 20 years."

Never before in the history of a research project dating back to 1946 had the Juneau Icefield witnessed the kind of snow buildup that came this year. It was similar on a lot of other glaciers too.

"It's been a long time on most glaciers where they've actually had positive mass balance," Molnia said.

http://http://www.mcclatchydc.com/ho...ory/53884.html


Thicker glaciers, oh dear!