{"id":532416,"date":"2010-04-18T11:54:34","date_gmt":"2010-04-18T15:54:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/?p=8454"},"modified":"2010-04-18T11:54:34","modified_gmt":"2010-04-18T15:54:34","slug":"as-icecaps-melt-more-volcanic-activity-in-our-future-say-scientists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/532416","title":{"rendered":"As Icecaps Melt, More Volcanic Activity in Our Future, Say Scientists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/files\/2010\/04\/Volcano_CO2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8471\" title=\"Volcano_CO2\" src=\"http:\/\/go635254.s3.amazonaws.com\/cleantechnica\/files\/2010\/04\/Volcano_CO2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"497\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nTwo vulcanologists published a paper in 2008 suggesting that as climate  change continues, the next decades could see more volcanic activity in  regions such as Iceland that are now under ice.<\/p>\n<p>Climate change could  spark off more volcanic eruptions in the now frozen  volcanic rim regions, Alaska, Patagonia and Antarctica and Iceland says Dr Carolina  Pagli,\u00a0 at Leeds University; one of the authors of the research. As  ice melts above volcanic rocks they are able to expand to turn into  magma more readily as pressure from above is reduced.<\/p>\n<p>Global warming melts  ice and this can influence magmatic systems, says Dr Freysteinn Sigmundsson,  the paper&#8217;s other author, at the Nordic Volcanological Centre at the  University of Iceland. \u00a0\u201cOur work suggests that  eventually there will be either  somewhat larger eruptions or more  frequent eruptions in Iceland in  coming decades.\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/2010\/04\/18\/as-icecaps-melt-more-volcanic-activity-in-our-future-say-scientists\/#more-8454\" class=\"more-link\">(more&#8230;)<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/cleantechnica\/com?a=N6rB4FVR038:XGP7KT7aojA:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/cleantechnica\/com?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/cleantechnica\/com?a=N6rB4FVR038:XGP7KT7aojA:gIN9vFwOqvQ\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/cleantechnica\/com?i=N6rB4FVR038:XGP7KT7aojA:gIN9vFwOqvQ\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/cleantechnica\/com?a=N6rB4FVR038:XGP7KT7aojA:F7zBnMyn0Lo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/cleantechnica\/com?i=N6rB4FVR038:XGP7KT7aojA:F7zBnMyn0Lo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/cleantechnica\/com?a=N6rB4FVR038:XGP7KT7aojA:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/cleantechnica\/com?i=N6rB4FVR038:XGP7KT7aojA:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/cleantechnica\/com?a=N6rB4FVR038:XGP7KT7aojA:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/cleantechnica\/com?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/cleantechnica\/com\/~4\/N6rB4FVR038\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two vulcanologists published a paper in 2008 suggesting that as climate change continues, the next decades could see more volcanic activity in regions such as Iceland that are now under ice. Climate change could spark off more volcanic eruptions in the now frozen volcanic rim regions, Alaska, Patagonia and Antarctica and Iceland says Dr Carolina [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6398,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-532416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6398"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=532416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532416\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=532416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=532416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=532416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}