Air Con: The Seriously Inconvenient Truth About Global Warming by Ian Wishart

Air Con: The Seriously Inconvenient Truth About Global Warming by Ian Wishart

Author:Ian Wishart
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Tags: Climate change, Earth Sciences, Global warming, Environment, Religion, Weather, Science, Politics, Climatology
ISBN: 9780958240147
Publisher: Howling At The Moon Publishing Ltd
Published: 2009-05-18T12:00:00+00:00


There are thousands of volcanoes, and millions of vents, under the ocean. All of them piping emissions at temperatures of 300°C (576°F) or higher into the oceans around them. It’s possibly no coincidence that satellite maps of areas where sea levels have increased due to thermal expansion show the greatest sea level rises over known volcanic zones like the Pacific’s Ring of Fire.

There’s also the not unrelated issue of underwater volcanoes pushing out CO2. Off the coast of Hawaii in 1997, unbeknown to most of us, the underwater volcano Loihi blew its stack in what scientists called “A Mount St. Helen-size event”:284

Hawaiian volcanologist Alexander Malahoff explained:

“Pele’s Dome, an area on the southern rim of the volcano that previously had been considered very stable, has simply vanished into a giant pit, which we have named the Pele’s Pit Crater. What we learn from this event will have profound implications for virtually everything we now know about undersea volcanism—including the effects of volcanic carbon dioxide emissions on climate, the possible generation of tsunamis that could strike coastal areas, and the impacts on the microscopic organisms that live in and near sea floor vents.

Loihi is also a big carbon dioxide polluter.



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