2. Current Issues
• Climate change caused by ocean, not just
atmosphere
• Icelandic volcano sits on massive mega hot
spot
• Australian volcanic mystery explained
3. Climate change caused by ocean, not
just atmosphere
• The ocean plays an equally important
role in regulating Earth's climate.
• How? – By pulling in heat and carbon
dioxide in the Atlantic and moves
them through the deep ocean from
north to south until it’s released in
the Pacific.
4. IcelIandic volcano sits on massive
mega hot spot
• Lava flow since
Aug 31.
• Causing
dramatic change
in climate
5. Australian volcanic mystery explained
• The research
explains a volcanic
region that has seen
more than 400
volcanic events in
the last four million
years.
• The 500 kilometer
long region which
surrounds a
dormant volcano
that last erupted
only 5,000 years
ago.
