Ice streams in the Greenland ice sheets have been one of the leading talking points in anthropogenic global warming. We are told that when those ice sheets melt, Florida and New York and New Orleans are doomed. We are also told that humans are responsible for the melting ice because of carbon dioxide emissions. i wonder if the volcano under the ice has anything to do with the ice stream right above it:
The ice sheet in northeast Greenland is especially worrisome to scientists. It had no known ice streams until 1991, when satellites spied one for the first time. Dubbed the Northeastern Greenland Ice Stream, it carries ice nearly 400 miles, from the deepest interior of the island out to the Greenland Sea.
“Ice streams have to have some reason for being there. And it’s pretty surprising to suddenly see one in the middle of an ice sheet,†von Frese said.
The newly discovered hotspot is just below the ice stream, and could have caused it to form, the researchers concluded. But what caused the hotspot to form?
“It could be that there’s a volcano down there,†he said. “But we think it’s probably just the way the heat is being distributed by the rock topography at the base of the ice.â€
Now, if the U.N. can figure out a way to blame this on the United States and tax us for it, it will make the evening news.
