Another Global Warming Myth Debuked

Several MSM outlets have been trumpeting the hysterical story that the North Pole may melt free of ice this summer after recovering over the winter because of anthropogenic global warming. Well if global air temperatures have not increased over the last decade and in fact have declined in the last couple years why is the Arctic sea ice melting? There are a couple reasons, one being a decadel oscillation of sea currents at the pole that move ice around and another is a massive series of underwater volcanic eruptions that started in 1999 are warming the water under the ice. Simply put air temperatures in the polar regions rarely ever go above freezing so how could atmospheric warming melt the ice but if the water under the ice warms a few degrees melting would accelerate. Well the Democrats better hurry up and ban those volcanoes before they hurt any polar bears.
(HT: David Hinz)
More here about Alaska's cold summer so far and more about those pesky volcanoes via Icecap.

An international team of researchers was able to provide evidence of explosive volcanism in the deeps of the ice-covered Arctic Ocean for the first time. Researchers from an expedition to the Gakkel Ridge, led by the American Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), report in the current issue of the journal Nature that they discovered, with a specially developed camera, extensive layers of volcanic ash on the seafloor, which indicates a gigantic volcanic eruption.