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Scientists have found an active volcano beneath Antarctic ice that last erupted just 2,000 years ago. The hotspot lies beneath the Pine Island region of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, where glaciers are retreating more quickly than elsewhere on the continent. The dramatic find might help to explain this particularly rapid loss of ice....
From "Nature" publication
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Are you trying to ruin Al Gore's day?
This will be totally inconvenient to him.
Volcano found under Antarctic ice
What exactly were they looking for when they found the Volcano, or they were indeed looking for a volcano?
. . . better to leave the ice alone.
Awesome, sooner or later they will find some prehistoric animals either alive or frozen, either way perfectly preserved.
Or even the pre-historic incurable virus that wiped out the Dinosaurs. (just kidding :~})
The dramatic find might help to explain this particularly rapid loss of ice....
<slaps forehead> Now who'd 'a thunk it? That a little thing like a volcano might release enough heat to melt ice?
1. More people live in the extreme north than the extreme south.
2. Slow natural adaptation to extreme cold necessitates the use of heavy tread-snow boots.
3. The use of such boots encourages excessive foot stomping (to remove snow before going indoors).
4. The resulting vibrations travel through the earth's core, increasing volcanic activity on the opposite pole.
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