Amidst all the hype over melting from above of the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets due to global warming, little attention has been paid to melting from below due to the earth’s volcanic activity. But the two major ice sheets are in fact melting on both top and bottom, meaning that the contribution of global warming isn’t as large as climate activists proclaim.
In central Greenland, Japanese researchers recently discovered a flow of molten rocks, known as a mantle plume, rising up beneath the island. The previously unknown plume emanates from the boundary between the earth’s core and mantle (labeled CMB in the following figure) at a depth of 2,889 km (1,795 miles), and melts Greenland’s ice from below.
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