No Heartland Institute International Conferences on Climate Change is complete without an attempt to blame global warming on underwater volcanoes , a meme Geophysicists discount as quantitatively akin to trying to melt an iceberg with a match: seawater outweighs submarine lava a hundred million to one.
The attempt none the less resonates with Heartland's cardinal principle : don't give up the grift—if eyeballs roll skyward at mention of sunspots and cosmic rays, just correlate last year's earthquake number's with next year's temperature rise while denying that there is one. |
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His Heartland colleague Willlis Eschenbach has other ideas. Forget underwater eruptions. He maintains that parrotfish are the true cause of rising seas in the South Pacific.
