By Irina SEVERIN | Original: https://tinyurl.com/2765966v
Kīlauea erupted again. 48th time since December, 2024. It is interesting that the U.S. Geological Survey describes all other aspects of the eruption except its thermal influence on Pacific Ocean temperatures, which show extreme warming not only at the ocean surface but also at depth. Why? Because, according to the official climate theory, for global warming, including the oceans, only the concentration of CO2 matters.
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The rest is neither mentioned nor discussed despite the fact that the Pacific waters turn to vapor upon contact with volcanic lava that emerges at roughly 1,100–1,200°C (2,000°F+) during eruptions, lasting about 12 hours.
Enormous quantities of heat are transferred, seawater boils instantly, steam plumes form, local circulation changes, and underwater thermal gradients develop; the immediate coastal ocean can become significantly warmer over areas ranging from meters to several kilometers.
Also, the Kīlauea eruption triggers a much larger volcanic and hydrothermal system beneath the ocean around the Hawaiian hotspot, meaning magma heats groundwater and seawater underground.
Volcanic heat affects stratification locally, weakening local thermoclines, enhancing vertical mixing, creating buoyant plumes, and altering coastal currents, especially if eruptions are prolonged or repeating on a regular two-week basis, lava enters deep water, and submarine volcanic activity increases.
The ocean near Hawaii begins to behave like a giant heat sink as lava injects concentrated geothermal energy, and seawater rapidly absorbs and redistributes it around the Pacific. Even if the influence is small relative to the scale of the Pacific, it still exists.
What is puzzling to me is the scientific consensus's decisiveness (uncovered by AI) to minimize the effect to a local level, while insisting that, at the level of the whole Pacific, the influence is tiny.
The argument goes that "the Pacific Ocean is unimaginably vast and stores vast amounts of thermal energy from the Sun. Even a powerful volcanic eruption contributes only a very small amount compared with solar heating, atmospheric circulation, ocean currents like the North Pacific Gyre, and climate-scale heat transport."
Therefore, "Kīlauea strongly heats nearby ocean regions, sometimes intensely, but does not significantly raise the temperature of the entire Pacific Ocean."
However, there is no need for dramatic change in the Pacific Ocean temperature to cause significant change in weather patterns - a fact, for some reason, actively neglected by the scientific consensus.
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