Seabed Volcanoes Can Influence West Antarctic Glacier Melts Read Newsmax: Seabed Volcanoes Can Influence West Antarctic Glacier Melts

by Larry Bell, September 3, 2018 in Newsmax


New evidence now updates and confirms a column I wrote in June 2014 that some or all of the highly publicized melting of western coastal Antarctic glaciers may be caused by seabed volcanoes rather than having much or anything to do with climate change.

An article published in June 22 edition of the journal Nature Communications reports that an international team of scientists tracing a chemical signature of helium in the seawater discovered that contemporary volcanic heat is causing observed melting beneath the massive west Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS.)