Huge Volcanoes May Be Erupting Under Arctic Ice

[Whitecorvette]

New evidence deep beneath the Arctic ice suggests a series of underwater volcanoes have erupted in violent explosions in the past decade.

Hidden 2.5 miles (4,000 meters) beneath the Arctic surface, the volcanoes are up to a mile (2,000 meters) in diameter and a few hundred yards tall.

They formed along the Gakkel Ridge, a lengthy crack in the ocean crust where two rocky plates are spreading apart, pulling new melted rock to the surface.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,374542,00.html

[Deputyez]

Could this be the cause of the melting ice cap rather than global warming???:thinking

[Jennifleur]

That, or the fact that the sun as well is heating up. Scientists have noticed temperatures on Mars rising as well. Although I'm surprised they haven't found a way to blame our carbon emmisions for that as well... :rolleyes

[OtherSideOfTheBoat]

Could this be the cause of the melting ice cap rather than global warming???:thinking
I am sure ALL:pound scientists agree that global warming causes volcanoes.

[Betty]

"I am sure ALL scientists agree that global warming causes volcanoes."
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Only those that want to KEEP there jobs.:lol2

[saint-in-training]

People have just become so big for their britches that they think they are so big and important they can cause weather changes...me, me, me.

[Katrina]

I am sure AL scientists agree that global warming causes volcanoes.

Better

[Jubilee on Earth]

Wait! I know what it is. These underwater volcanoes are a result of the slowly-shifting magnetic pole reversal that is due to end the earth in 2012, as predicted by the Mayans.

At which time the earth does not quite end -- we all simply reach a new age of enlightenment.

:spew

[Jennifleur]

Wait! I know what it is. These underwater volcanoes are a result of the slowly-shifting magnetic pole reversal that is due to end the earth in 2012, as predicted by the Mayans.

At which time the earth does not quite end -- we all simply reach a new age of enlightenment.

:spew

:pound

Well, except for those of us not deemed "fit" for said "enlightenment" and who are standing in the way of "evolutionary progress". :heh

[Cosmo]

That, or the fact that the sun as well is heating up. Scientists have noticed temperatures on Mars rising as well. Although I'm surprised they haven't found a way to blame our carbon emmisions for that as well... :rolleyes

Well NASA does keep sending probes there, so it is our fault. All these probe vehicles are causing global warming on mars. NASA needs to develope a probe vehicle that runs on more environmental friendly fuels.

I am being sarcastic of course. :heh