Volcanoes Long Seen to be the Cause of Antarctic Glacier and Ice Sheet Melt; Not Global Warming -- but Warmists never mentioned it
Mitch Battros - Earth Changes Media
January 2008, Hugh Corr and David Vaughan of the British Antarctic Survey, published data on a previously unknown underwater volcano first discovered in 2004 off the coast of Antarctica The presence of a volcano was first suggested in sonar studies during the January 2004 research expedition. "This is the first time we have seen a volcano beneath the ice sheet punch a hole through the ice sheet." The finding helps explain mariners' historical reports of discolored water in the area. Material from underwater volcanoes is known to cause discoloration in water over them. The eruption occurred close to the massive Pine Island Glacier, an area where movement of glacial ice towards the sea has been accelerating alarmingly in recent decades. Co-researcher Hugh Corr states: "We believe this was the biggest eruption in Antarctica during the last 10,000 years. It blew a substantial hole in the icesheet and generated a plume of ash and gas that rose around 12 kms (eight miles) into the air."
The eruption occurred close to the massive Pine Island Glacier, an area where movement of glacial ice towards the sea has been accelerating alarmingly in recent decades. Co-researcher Hugh Corr states: "We believe this was the biggest eruption in Antarctica during the last 10,000 years. It blew a substantial hole in the icesheet and generated a plume of ash and gas that rose around 12 kms (eight miles) into the air." olcanic heat could still be melting ice to water and contributing to thinning and speeding up of the Pine Island glacier, which passes nearby. Vaughan suggests the heat from volcanoes is the cause of glacier melt
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