Scientist Says We're Heading into Ice Age due to Underwater Volcanoes

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About a mile beneath the ocean, some of the most intense volcanoes erupt lava with temperatures at 2200 degrees F.

According to Ice Age Now:

 

“It was an underwater Fourth of July,” said Bob Embley, a marine geologist for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, in a news release. “Since the water pressure at that depth suppresses the violence of the volcano’s explosions, we could get the underwater robot within feet of the active eruption.”

SLIDESHOW: Scenes from the Undersea Volcanic Eruption

“Bright-red lava bubbles shot out of the volcano, releasing a smoke-like cloud of sulfur. The lava froze almost instantly as it hit the cold sea water, causing black rock to sink to the sea floor.

For the first time ever, scientists were able to witness the creation of a material called boninite, which had previously been found only in samples at least a million years old.

“Although 80 percent of the earth’s volcanic activity occurs in the sea, scientists from NOAA and the National Science Foundation had never witnessed an eruption this deep and in this detail.”

  Eighty percent? I think underwater volcanic activity is thousands of times
    more prevalent than now believed. 

    As I say in Not by Fire but by Ice, those underwater volcanoes are pumping
    red-hot lava – 2,200 degrees Fahrenheit hot – into the seas and heating them.
    That’s ten times the boiling point! (See the chapter entitled “Fish Stew.”)

     In turn, the warmer seas pump ever more moisture into the skies, which
     inevitably results in ever more precipitation. When that precipitation falls 
     in the winter, you have the makings of an ice age. I think we’re seeing that
     happen right now. It’s not global warming, it’s ocean warming, and it’s 
     leading us into the next ice age.

     Warmer seas and colder skies: A deadly combination.

For more information check out this report at Fox News about underwater volcanic eruptions:

“Deep sea biologists are obsessed with determining the rate of processes, how fast something happens. The anticipation here is if this ground remains unstable because of lava pushing out and breaking away, it will not provide a surface area for these organisms to colonize,” he said.