{"id":388635,"date":"2025-07-14T08:56:47","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T06:56:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=388635"},"modified":"2025-07-14T08:56:48","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T06:56:48","slug":"voodoo-science-strikes-again-climate-change-is-awakening-volcanoes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=388635","title":{"rendered":"Voodoo-science strikes again: Climate change is awakening volcanoes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From JoNova<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Jo Nova<\/p>\n\n\n

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Image by\u00a0Yol Gezer<\/a>\u00a0from\u00a0Pixabay<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Don\u2019t panic, but the unleashed fossil spirits from The Ford 150 are about to plague us with volcanoes<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

If only you bought your oranges locally, instead of flying them in from California, the lava would have behaved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If ever you have doubts that we are merely 3 genes away* from being mammoth hunting tribes of prophets and bone pointing shamen, look no further than modern captive science. These nice geochemists haven\u2019t even published a paper yet, but five minutes after giving a speech at a conference, it\u2019s already click-bait headlines and advertising for The Blob. Not that the captive researchers seem to mind (more\u2019s the pity).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We are about to enter the doom loop where climate change melts glaciers which trigger volcanoes, which melts more glaciers. The press release<\/a> even says \u201cexplosive time bombs\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Except, of course, this is really about the Great Ice Sheets melting from the last ice age, not about humans raising global temperatures by a thousandth of a degree. And we\u2019ve known about this since 1992 when Sivaldason et al reported that a kilometer thick block of ice slowed down volcanic eruptions in Iceland during the depths of the ice-cold climate. The new team have just shown this happened in Chile too.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Melting glaciers are awakening Earth’s most dangerous volcanoes | ScienceDaily<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n
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Melting glaciers are awakening Earth\u2019s most dangerous volcanoes<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

European Association of Geochemistry<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scientists have discovered that melting glaciers could unleash powerful volcanic eruptions by removing the weight that keeps magma trapped deep underground. Antarctica may hold hundreds of these explosive time bombs. Melting glaciers may be silently setting the stage for more explosive and frequent volcanic eruptions in the future, according to research on six volcanoes in the Chilean Andes.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

The Guardian<\/em> goes full Absurdium: \u201cA barrage of explosions\u201d<\/a><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

After the Patagonian ice sheets melted 12,000 years ago, volcanoes increased two to six fold they say\u2026. as if increasing atmospheric CO2 by 0.01% somehow compares to removing a block of ice that was 1.5 to 2 km thick and weighed 540 trillion metric tons:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Melting glaciers and ice caps could unleash wave of volcanic eruptions, study says<\/a><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

The melting of glaciers and ice caps by the climate crisis could unleash a barrage of explosive volcanic eruptions, a study suggests.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cPrevious research has shown volcanic activity increased globally<\/a> by two to six times after the last ice age\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cA recent review by scientists found there had been relatively little study on how the climate crisis had been affecting volcanic activity<\/a>. They said more research was \u201ccritically important\u201d in order to be better prepared for the damage caused by volcanic eruptions to people and their livelihoods and for possible climate-volcano feedback loops that could amplify the climate crisis. For example, more extreme rainfall<\/a> is also expected to increase violent explosive eruptions.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Should we toss darts at Voodoo dolls?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The witchdoctors of modern science are one-variable thinkers, and every answer is \u201cclimate change\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We don\u2019t even know how many volcanoes there are<\/em> on Earth. Most volcanoes are underwater and a couple of years ago we found another 19,000 of them<\/a> that the experts didn\u2019t know about. Sometimes we only find new seamounts when we run into them in a nuclear sub, like the USS San Francisco did in 2005.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We also don\u2019t even know when underwater volcanoes erupt today, let alone whether they were more or less active in 21,000BC. It\u2019s hard to believe, but we can see a volcano explode on Io, easier than we can see one in a deep sea trench. Eruptions under two  kilometers of water can be somewhat muted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The feedback doom loops suggested here are vicarious guesses. Who knows \u2014 when the great ice sheets squashed down volcanoes on land, the magma might just have been squeezed out of undersea trenches instead. And underwater eruptions rewrite all the rules. Sudden heating of water might divert ocean currents, it might unleash nutrients that feed vast phytoplankton blooms which in turn emit benzene and toluene aerosols<\/a> that rise up and increase cloud cover, cooling the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

*No disrespect intended. There probably weren\u2019t many dumb mammoth hunters in the northern Tundra in an ice age.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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If ever you have doubts that we are merely 3 genes away* from being mammoth hunting tribes of prophets and bone pointing shamen, look no further than modern captive science. These nice geochemists haven\u2019t even published a paper yet, but five minutes after giving a speech at a conference, it\u2019s already click-bait headlines and advertising for The Blob. 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