Letter: Global warming is driven by undersea volcanoes

I totally agree with the July 6, 2025, article by Sens. Jeff Magrum and Tim Mathern that carbon capture and storage is a big waste of taxpayer money, a safety hazard and destroys private property rights.

However, they left out a key aspect: ‘The idea that manmade carbon dioxide is causing climate change is false’.

I say this after having written 13 letters in the Duluth News Tribune since March 23, 2023, giving reasons why manmade climate change is fake science.

I received feedback, but no solid rebuttals using empirical evidence detailing how man’s puny 0.0016% of atmospheric gases can jerk the global climate system around.

Recently, I found out that the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change), a non-scientific organization, has been fudging the data regarding the increase of solar radiation absorption by the planet, and twisting things around to make it look like man’s CO2 is the culprit.

Additionally, high-resolution satellites have recently found more than 19,000 new under-sea volcanoes, bringing the total to over 43,000, according to AAAS ‘Science’ April, 2023.

So we really don’t have a good handle on carbon dioxide and volcanic heat pumped being pumped into the oceans.

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.

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.

Phil Drietz is a resident of Delhi, Minn.