I have this hypothesis that I've been exploring for a number of years that some portion of this increase in climate temperature that we're seeing worldwide over the past many decades might be attributable in some unknown part to an increase in undersea volcano activity that in turn warms ocean waters to some unknown degree, and has some unknown impact on our changing climate.
As ocean exploration is really our last frontier to explore on this planet, does anyone know if we are monitoring deep ocean temperatures, how extensive is this network, for how long have we been doing this monitoring, and what have we found out so far. Similarly, do we know how many active volcanoes there are on a given day in the ocean depths. We know how many active volcanoes there are above the ocean on any given day and how active they are, but I've never seen a similar statistic for below the ocean. This puzzles me greatly because I think there is more going on down there beneath the oceans than we realize. We put billions into deep space research, which I fully support having a great interest in cosmology; however, it's time we do the same for deep ocean research. Think about it, 3/4 of the earths surface is covered by ocean and what can we say we know about the ocean's climate and how the oceans' climate has changed over the past centuries or millennia, let alone the past half century.
We have a vast extensive terrestrial network of weather monitoring sites going back centuries in some locales, but from a research perspective only gong back to the year 1880 from a climate research perspective. As the oceans encompass about 3/4 of the earth's surface, we know much less about the short and long term temperature fluctuations over this same period at various depths of the ocean. Consequently, drawing any inferences from this data set I believe is poor at best.
There is little doubt about how our climate trends are changing in recent decades and have fluctuated over the centuries and thousands and hundreds of thousands of years, but to fully understand all the contributing factors we should have a much more extensive under ocean temperature monitoring system. This monitoring system should also involve salinity measurements, current velocity and direction, and any other factors that may be useful to scientists that would help to determine what factors there are that can help to unravel the science behind this aspect of our ocean climate that can help us to more fully understand the total climate change phenomenon.
