Emergent Plate Climatology theory gets a boost from a new study from the University of California with a new paper titled, ‘Hydrothermal carbon release to the ocean and atmosphere from the
eastern equatorial Pacific during the last glacial termination.’ [1]
The authors contend that increased tectonic activity, either locally or globally, equates to more heat and chemically charged heated fluid release from active geological features into oceans, sub-glacial polar areas, and atmosphere.
“We document late glacial and deglacial intervals of anomalously old 14C reservoir ages, large benthic-planktic foraminifera 14C age differences, and increased deposition of hydrothermal metals in marine sediments from the eastern equatorial Pacific (EEP) that indicate a significant release of hydrothermal fluids entered the ocean at the last glacial termination. The large 14C anomaly was accompanied by a ∼4-fold increase in Zn/Ca in both benthic and planktic foraminifera that reflects an increase in dissolved [Zn] throughout the water column.”
PSI contributor, Richard F. Cronin adds some takeaway points for readers consideration:
1) The increase in hydrothermal vent activity at the end of the last major glaciation broadly supports the concepts of Plate Climatology. I would direct the reader’s attention to the embedded link regarding “Global Warming and Plate Climatology”
Furthermore, the heat flux emanating from within the Earth is hardly settled science.
Re: the Earth’s internal heat flux, current thinking
In 2010, Davies & Davies provided an estimate for the internal heat flux of the planet = 47 TW +/- 2 TW. This is the value you will find if you research conventional sources. However, Davies & Davies only allowed for heat passing via conduction thru the mantle. They used the temperature profiles derived from approx. 38,347 borehole observations with a heavy bias for the developed regions of the world, a greatly diminished number in the oceans, and negligible observations around seismically active or volcanic regions. No observations were taken on Greenland nor Antarctica, yet we know that these regions have very high geothermal heat flow. Very few observations were taken across the inaccessible regions of northern Canada and Siberia. Yet, with the Earth as a globe, the thinnest layer of the crust is across the high northern latitudes, with the North Pole being the thinnest point. Much “modeling” followed.
The next paper was published in 2017 by L.B. Bezrukov et al wherein his team provided rough estimates of the energy carried with the gases vented from the planet. No one had thought of this before !!! They deduced a heat flux ranging between 300 to 420 TW. Much work remains thru observations of geoneutrinos to estimate the radiogenic ( and fission) sources of heat.
It strikes me that even more heat is provided from the liquids venting from the Earth. Liquids convey heat via both conduction and convection. Moreover, all of the acid gases venting from hydrothermal vents and submarine volcanoes react exothermically with the alkaline ocean waters, so we have the heat of reaction dissipated into the ocean waters.
Where is a legitimate heat and material balance for the Earth ?? You can’t get one in an Open System !!
As a final point, the reader should recognize that the temperature data presented in the current discussions over Global Warming are taken from surface monitoring stations. At a minimum they are affected by the urban heat island effect. Satellite observations have been largely downplayed, although the SABER satellites indicate a cooling trend in the upper atmosphere. See Mlynczak, Marshall:
[1] Lowell D Stott et al 2019 Environ. Res. Lett. 14 025007, ‘Hydrothermal carbon release to the ocean and atmosphere from the eastern equatorial Pacific during the last glacial termination,’ https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/aafe28/pdf
PRINCIPIA SCIENTIFIC INTERNATIONAL, legally registered in the UK as a company incorporated for charitable purposes. Head Office: 27 Old Gloucester Street, London WC1N 3AX.
Please DONATE TODAY To Help Our Non-Profit Mission To Defend The Scientific Method.
Only Richard because I am sure you are the one who has studied and studied the phenomenon of volcanic activity.
So Richard continue to keep PSI readers informed about the state of scholarship about what is going on in the earths interior and making its way to the earth’s surface and the bottoms of oceans and seas.
Only a fool would deny the forces that must have been involved in creating mountain ranges. And it is hard for me to imagine this activity had much to do with the Sun and its solar radiation.
But I wonder: Where are you on Immanuel Velikovsky’s Worlds in Collision? Of course, it would seem that such a possibility could have an influence upon volcanic activity.
There is so much that has been forgotten, or ignored, about the valid scholarship of previous scientists of the past Scientists make mistakes just as ordinary people do.
Hence, the importance of the freedom to have a forum like PSI.
“Motive Force for all Climate Change” at ClimateRealist(.)com, May 2009.
Earth has 800,000 cubic miles or Uranium and 1.2 million cubic miles of Thorium, subject to variable gamma radiation, causing variable fission and variable volcanism. This forcing factor is actively denied by Alarmists and Lukewarmist science posers.
incorporated for charitable purposes. Head Office: 27 Old Gloucester Street, London WC1N 3AX.
jerry krause
| #
Hi Richard,
Only Richard because I am sure you are the one who has studied and studied the phenomenon of volcanic activity.
So Richard continue to keep PSI readers informed about the state of scholarship about what is going on in the earths interior and making its way to the earth’s surface and the bottoms of oceans and seas.
Only a fool would deny the forces that must have been involved in creating mountain ranges. And it is hard for me to imagine this activity had much to do with the Sun and its solar radiation.
But I wonder: Where are you on Immanuel Velikovsky’s Worlds in Collision? Of course, it would seem that such a possibility could have an influence upon volcanic activity.
There is so much that has been forgotten, or ignored, about the valid scholarship of previous scientists of the past Scientists make mistakes just as ordinary people do.
Hence, the importance of the freedom to have a forum like PSI.
Have a good day, Jerry
Reply
Joseph Olson
| #
“Motive Force for all Climate Change” at ClimateRealist(.)com, May 2009.
Earth has 800,000 cubic miles or Uranium and 1.2 million cubic miles of Thorium, subject to variable gamma radiation, causing variable fission and variable volcanism. This forcing factor is actively denied by Alarmists and Lukewarmist science posers.
Reply