On June 22, a group of scientists from the University of Rhode Island and the University of East Anglia published an article in the newspaper Nature Communications, where they said they had discovered a new factor in the rapid melting of the Pine Island Glacier in Antarctica, a previously unknown active volcano buried deep under ice.
Combined with another scientific study released in 2017 by a group of scientists at the University of Edinburgh, which announced the existence of 91 volcanoes buried under the ice sheets of West Antarctica, in addition to 41 previously discovered. A very disturbing conclusion was drawn from all this. The ice sheets of West Antarctica are rapidly melting due to a vast network of buried volcanoes that are much more active than scientists previously believed.
On June 22, the article "Evidence for an Active Source of Volcanic Heat Beneath the Pine Island Glacier" summarized what is currently known about the volcanoes that make up the West Antarctic Rift System (VARS):
“To date, as many as 138 volcanoes have been discovered throughout West Antarctica, including the currently active Mount Erebus, along the Terror Rift, and mountains. Siple and Mt. Waesche, which are indicative of recent turbulence. However, the location and extent of volcanic activity along the WARS is being discussed because many of these 138 known volcano-like objects are buried under several kilometers of ice, and some evidence suggests that most of the inland subglacial volcanoes are dormant."
The assumption that most volcanoes in West Antarctica are dormant is increasingly challenged by new scientific discoveries. Signals of volcanic activity are detected in sea waters, as evidenced by rare isotopes such as helium-3, which were used by the authors of the Pine Island glaciers article.
In addition, the increase in heat and seismic activity in Antarctica indicates a large amount of magma moving deep beneath the West Antarctic Ice Caps (WAIS), as the June 22 document suggested:
“Visible surface deformations in the WAIS thickness also suggest localized heat flows that are most likely volcanic due to their intensity, while ash layers from ice cores show more recent eruptions. Finally, the discovery of earthquakes back in 2010 suggests magma migrates under the Executive Committee mountains in the Marie Bird Land area, where seismic studies have revealed thin crust and low-density mantle material."
According to Professor Karen Heywood, one of the co-authors of Evidence for an Active Source of Volcanic Heat Beneath the Pine Island Glacier:
Promotional video:
While the June 22 document focused on the impact of a buried volcano melting the Pine Island Glacier, it briefly mentioned the wider impact of other volcanoes on the West Antarctic Ice Sheets (WAIS):
New data on the influence of one or more active volcanoes in explaining the rapid melting of the Pine Island Glacier, as well as the rise in temperature and melting observed elsewhere on the frozen continent, indicate powerful transformational events in West Antarctica.
The following long-term temperature map of Antarctica, along with recently discovered volcanoes, shows how and why West Antarctica heats up much faster than East Antarctica.
The left image shows the increase in temperature in Antarctica from 1956 to 2006 (accredited by NASA / Goddard Space Flight Research Studio); The right image shows the 2017 discovery of 90 new volcanoes in Antarctica.
If global warming due to CO2 emissions is the explanation, then ocean warming will be uniform as both East and West Antarctica heats up. Most scientific evidence, however, points to the melting of West Antarctica.
The June 22 document, along with other scientific research, provides a compelling explanation of what is really driving the melting of the West Antarctic ice sheets. Submarine volcanoes are more active than previously thought, and glacial plates are melting much faster than scientists believe.
If we take the upcoming solar cycle 25 (2019-2030) as a catalyst to trigger volcanic activity around the Earth through increased solar activity, West Antarctica's ice sheets could disappear in as little as ten years or so.
There are four main effects that can occur from West Antarctica ice sheets disappearing so quickly.
First, ocean levels will rise much more dramatically than previously thought. If all the ice in West Antarctica melted, ocean levels would rise by 10 feet (3.3 meters). Instead of humanity having centuries to prepare, many geologists estimate that it will only have ten years.
Second, the whistleblower claims that there are large underground bases in Antarctica that belong to several secret space programs dating back to World War II that will be open to the world. It can be predicted that countries and corporations running such secret programs will not allow themselves to be crowded out by geological events and accelerate formal disclosure initiatives.
Third, ancient artifacts of a frozen advanced civilization buried under the Antarctic ice will be discovered, confirming rumors and eyewitness accounts of such a discovery since the early 1990s. The technology and knowledge gained from such discoveries could provide humanity with rapid scientific revolutions spanning aerospace, medical, archaeological, and even religion.
Finally, the rapid repulsion of West Antarctic ice will affect the centrifugal forces driving the Earth's axis of rotation, leading to a possible pole shift, as discussed by Charles Hapgood and Albert Einstein in Earth's Shear Crust (1958).
The scientific rationale for the Pine Island Glacier, melted by volcanic activity, should serve as a warning about the profound impact of such a phenomenon, repeated throughout the chain of volcanoes buried deep beneath West Antarctica, and about the severe consequences that this has on the entire planet.