{"id":29545,"date":"2017-02-16T11:03:20","date_gmt":"2017-02-16T19:03:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/?p=29545"},"modified":"2017-02-16T11:07:38","modified_gmt":"2017-02-16T19:07:38","slug":"lake-of-molten-carbon-causes-hysterical-outgassing-by-warmists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/16\/lake-of-molten-carbon-causes-hysterical-outgassing-by-warmists\/","title":{"rendered":"Lake of molten carbon causes hysterical outgassing by warmists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Comes a report that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sciencetech\/article-4226566\/Scientists-discover-massive-reservoir-greenhouse-gases.html\" target=\"_blank\">a lake of molten carbon<\/a> underlies vast stretches of the western U.S.<\/p>\n<p>This is scientifically fascinating. This is the kind of awesome information earth sciences geeks live for. When I was a little kid, I&#8217;d have been right on this, learning everything I could and probably hoping it would be possible to dive down and explore the lake someday.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe this is also terrifying when you consider that it&#8217;s roughly (very roughly) centered on the Yellowstone supervolcano and covers areas that have been buried in almost unthinkably thick, vast lava flows at at times in their histories.<\/p>\n<p>So how are we supposed to react? I&#8217;ll tell you how we&#8217;re supposed to react: &#8220;Eeek! Eeek! Climate change! If molten carbon ever gets loose, it&#8217;ll cause <em>warming<\/em>!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>People &#8230; people. If this discovery is accurate, and if large quantities of molten carbon or gaseous byproducts of molten carbon ever do get set loose &#8230; I assure you that <em>warming<\/em> will be the least of your worries. <\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, enjoy the wondrous human capacity for discovering the unseen. <\/p>\n<p>(H\/T MtK)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/LakeofCarbon_021617.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/LakeofCarbon_021617.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"634\" height=\"564\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-29546\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/LakeofCarbon_021617.jpg 634w, https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/LakeofCarbon_021617-450x400.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 634px) 100vw, 634px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comes a report that a lake of molten carbon underlies vast stretches of the western U.S. This is scientifically fascinating. This is the kind of awesome information earth sciences geeks live for. When I was a little kid, I&#8217;d have been right on this, learning everything I could and probably hoping it would be possible to dive down and explore the lake someday. Maybe this is also terrifying when you consider that it&#8217;s roughly (very roughly) centered on the Yellowstone supervolcano and covers areas that have been buried in almost unthinkably thick, vast lava flows at at times in their&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/16\/lake-of-molten-carbon-causes-hysterical-outgassing-by-warmists\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Lake of molten carbon causes hysterical outgassing by warmists<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29545"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29555,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29545\/revisions\/29555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}