Ocean_Warming

Mysterious "Swarm" of Quakes Strikes Oregon Water
(And we wonder why the oceans are warming)
16 Apr 08 - About 600 earthquakes have been recorded about 190 miles offshore
from Yachats. Earthquake swarms normally indicate volcanic activity. Scientists say
they may find lava oozing out onto the seafloor or hot water percolating up from
magma-heated undersea hot springs.
See Mysterious Swarm of Quakes Strikes Oregon Water
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The Sounds of Climate Change
Underwater volcanoes heating the seas?
8 Jan 08 - "Earthquakes and magma spewing on the seafloor
go hand in hand ... there are new heat sources right off the coast
of Deception Island that no one was aware of before.
See Sounds of Climate Change
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Warming Deep-Sea Temperatures Ended Last Ice Age
Study Validates My Theories
See Warming Deep-Sea Temperatures Ended Last Ice Age
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Unrecognized Underwater Volcanic Activity
13 Jul 07 - Transform faults are not developing or behaving as
theories of plate tectonics say they should. The faults are often
segmented and show signs of recent or ongoing volcanism.
See Unrecognized Underwater Volcanic Activity
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Three Million Underwater Volcanoes
9 Jul 07 - Researchers estimate that in total there could be about 3 million submarine
volcanoes, 39,000 of which rise more than 1000 meters over the sea bed.
See Three Million Underwater Volcanoes
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Japanese scientists discover huge undersea lava plateau
9 Jan 07 - See Underwater Lava Plateau
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Pacific Ocean gives birth to new volcanic island
9 Nov 06 - See New Volcanic Island Near Tonga
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Volcanism killed the Dinosaurs
"It wasn't the impact of an asteroid that killed the dinosaurs 65 million years ago," says new research from Cardiff University in Wales. "It was a mantle plume, a huge volcanic eruption from deep within Earth's mantle...."
See Volcanism Killed Dinosaurs

Here's an important study showing that
El Niño activity correlates with ice ages.
(Meyerson, Mayewski, et al., Annals of Glaciology 35: 430-436.)

The authors found that a shift toward cooler conditions during the Little Ice Age was concurrent with an increase in the frequency of El Niño events. This is contrary to what is generally predicted by climate models, where cooling leads to less El Niño activity and warming leads to more.

The findings were harmonious with the historical El Niño chronology of both South America and the Nile region, which depict "increased El Niño activity during the period of the Little Ice Age and decreased El Niño activity during the Medieval Warm Period.
http://www.co2science.org/journal/2003/v6n34c1.htm

This goes along with what I have been saying for years - that today's increase in El Niño activity is the precursor to an ice age.

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We’ve forgotten that this isn’t the first time our seas have warmed. Sea temperatures also shot upward 10^º to 18^ºF just prior to the last ice age.

As the oceans warmed, evaporation increased. The excess moisture then fell to the ground as giant blizzards, giant storms and floods (Noah's Deluge type floods), and a new ice age began.

The same thing is happening today.

It’s not global warming, it’s ocean warming, and humans have nothing to do with it. Our seas are being heated, I believe, by underwater volcanism. Here’s why:

We are living in a period of vastly increased volcanism, said Dixy Lee Ray in her 1993 book Environmental Overkill, the greatest in 500 years.

Eighty percent of all volcanism (say experts at NOAA) occurs underwater.

Therefore, underwater volcanism should also be the greatest in 500 years.

Our seas, heated by underwater volcanism, are leading us directly into the next ice age . . . and we don’t even know it.

That's what El Niño is all about. Warmer seas send excess moisture into the sky, leading to increased precipitation.

Worldwide flood activity is the worst since before Christopher Columbus. In Poland, it's the worst in several thousand years. In the U.S., precipitation has increased 20 percent just since 1970. This is no coincidence.

When that precipitation begins falling in the winter, you have the makings of an ice age.

Volcanic Eruptions, Not Meteor, May Have Killed Dinosaurs New discovery validates theories in Not by Fire but by Ice 30 Oct 07 - "A series of monumental volcanic eruptions in India may have killed the dinosaurs 65 million years ago, not a meteor impact in the Gulf of Mexico. See Volcanic Eruptions Killed Dinosaurs
	Rajahmundry quarry near the Bay of Bengal, about 1000 km from the center of the Deccan Traps near Mumbai. (Photo courtesy Gerta Keller

THE NEXT ICE AGE - NOW!