Well, here’s an interesting hypothesis:
How are seafloor volcanic eruptions affected by Earth’s motion around the sun? New research suggests the planet’s volcanism is inextricably linked to sea levels, which, in turn, are directly linked to minute fluctuations in Earth’s orbit around the sun.
As a result of these variations in the frequency of their eruptions, underwater volcanoes might have a greater impact on Earth’s climate cycle than current predictive models estimate.
“People have ignored seafloor volcanoes on the idea that their influence is small, but that’s because they are assumed to be in a steady state, which they’re not,†Maya Tolstoy, a marine geophysicist with the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, reportedly said.
Yet another factor which will need to be factored into climate change models. Nature is complicated.
How timely.
“Nature is complicated,” and analysis thereof is ripe for manipulation. This:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/earth/environment/globalwarming/11395516/The-fiddling-with-temperature-data-is-the-biggest-science-scandal-ever.html
…was first brought to my attention awhile back by someone who has a degree in environmental science and is an unabashed “environmentalist.” That said, he raised the issue because he is intellectually honest and knows there is zealotry and politics getting in the way of science.
I still say to this day, Alex Knapp’s concerns about the oceans are worthy of investigation, but this AGW stuff is pure crap. Wouldn’t it be ironic if a real issue went un acknowledged because of a bunch of charlatans crying wolf.
Truth often gets lost in the quest for power, whether it involves political ideology, closed-minded adherence to “settled science or personal muscle pumping.