Letter: Global warming is driven by under-sea volcanoes

To the editor:

Online commenter (July 12) stated that “renewable” energy sources (I assume he means solar and wind) are cheaper than coal energy. Not so according to levelized cost of energy Archives — American Experiment . Wind and solar can look cheap, so long as you ignore most of the costs of integrating them on to the grid and backing them up.

He also disagrees with my stating that man’s puny 0.0016% of atmospheric gas (CO2) is not causing global warming.

However, in April 2023, AAAS ‘Science’ reported that high-resolution satellites had recently found more than 19,000 new under-sea volcanoes, bringing the total to over 43,000. So, we really don’t have a good handle on how much carbon dioxide and heat is being pumped into the ocean. These volcanoes and the 40,000-miles of mid-ocean mountain ridges pump enormous amounts of heat into the ocean. All that hot water is being moved by ocean currents, but all those mountains create vortices that shift water in directions we don’t fully understand — and that can have an enormous effect on global climate.

Recently, I discovered that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), a non-scientific organization, has been manipulating the data regarding the increase in solar radiation absorption by the planet, distorting the facts to make it appear as though human CO2 emissions are the primary cause of global warming. See https://iowaclimate.org/2024/07/26/nikolov-zeller-misrepresentation-of-critical-satellite-data-by-ipcc/

Global warming is driven by under-sea volcanoes, hot 40,000-mile-long mid-ocean mountain ridges and rifts, ocean currents, and the amount of sunlight penetrating Earth’s surface.

For these reasons, common sense tells us man’s puny 0.0016 % CO2 in the atmosphere is really a climate non-player.

Phil Drietz
Delhi, MN