There was quite an interesting news item in the Sunday Times (11th May page16) headed 'Antartic ice threatened by undersea volcano'. It starts 'Antarctica's ice sheets may face a far more imminent threat than climate change: scientists have found a new volcano forming a mile under the ice, which is threatening a full erruption.'

The volcano is under the West Antarctic ice sheet. Is it possible this volcano isn't 'new' at all, but has been causing ice melt in the Antarctic for some time and that ocean warming, in this area at least, is very little to do with climate change.

I've seen or heard nothing more since Sunday. Can anyone elaborate for me.

PS If you saw this post yesterday under the heading 'Mr', please forgive me; I was in a hurry and not thinking straight.

'Mr' as a title got my attention.

Yes, there is volcanic activity at the edge of the Ross Ice Shelf and you can see it's effect in the early melt of the sea ice.

http://www.ospo.noaa.gov/data/sst/anomaly/2014/anomnight.1.2.2014.gif

See the warm area just off the Ross Ice Shelf and within a sea of ice? The scientists are still in the process of finding volcanoes in the area.