Hydrothermal vent [image credit: USGS]
The author argues: “In summary, evidence substantiates that a well-defined, persistent and non-moving ocean warm trend originating off the East Coast of the United States is the result of super-heated and methane enriched fluids emitted from numerous seafloor hydrothermal vents/hot springs. This has far-reaching implications concerning the root cause of current worldwide ocean warming.”
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A well-defined ocean warming trend originating off the United States East Coast is likely from super-heated and methane-enriched fluids emitted from numerous seafloor hydrothermal vents/hot springs, says James Kamis at Climate Change Dispatch.
Supporting evidence:
This trend has shown up on shallow Sea Surface (SST) maps since their advent in 1997 and has likely been present for thousands of years.
The SST mapping system continuously measures worldwide ocean temperatures by integrating satellite and ocean buoy data.
Every two or three days the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) posts this temperature data in map view.
A review of SST data indicates that the East Coast ocean warming trend is the only very strong warming feature ever recorded along the entire East Coast.
The “ocean floor heat source point” has never moved (Figure 1). It has maintained the same temperature scale since 1997.
Integration then analysis of these characteristics and other information, primarily geological in nature, proves that the warm trend is the result of emissions from seafloor geological features such as a group of hydrothermal vents.
Conversely, these characteristics and other information prove that the forces and situations listed below are not the root cause of the East Coast ocean warming trend.
— Uniform worldwide atmosphere warming as per the global warming theory. Uniform atmospheric warming would lead to the generation of other East Coast warming trends that have the same temperature magnitude. This is not the case.
— Similar ocean water depth. Similar ocean depths are present all along the East Coast and none of these depths are home to another high-magnitude temperature ocean trend.
— Gulf Stream ocean current. A review of all SST Maps indicates that the Gulf Stream ocean current, which circumvents the entire north and the central Atlantic Ocean, has never generated another warming trend with the temperature magnitude as per the East Coast trend.
— Human-generated warm fluids flushed into the Atlantic Ocean. The East Coast warming floor heat source point encompasses an area off the coast of North Carolina and Virginia. This source point is not positioned near a major metropolitan area. Additionally, other large metropolitan areas such as Miami, Baltimore, and New York City do not have significant ocean floor heat source points and high magnitude temperature warm trends associated with them.
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