On: Extreme rainfall triggered the 2018 rift eruption ...

[pimpampum]

Add volcanoes to climate change outcomes

[phkahler → pimpampum]

No, this is a surface phenomenon. No amount of rain is going to determine weather a seafloor volcano forms or is active.

[phyzome → phkahler]

Well... with sea level rise, and changing pressure due to ice sheets melting (crust rebound), I would expect seismic and volcanic activity. Probably more of a polar thing, though?

[foobarbecue → phkahler]

There is some pretty strong evidence that mid-ocean ridge volcanism is modulated by sea level change (no bearing on hot spot volcanism like HI). I read some papers on it a few years ago. Here's a recent one I haven't read yet: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2020.116121

[pimpampum → phkahler]

Who said anything about seafloor?

[phkahler → pimpampum]

Kilauea is in Hawaii right? Those islands are all sea floor volcanos that reached the surface.

[pimpampum → phkahler]

And with changing weather patterns and more evaporation I'd expect more rain in some places, probably around some volcanoes too.

[ceejayoz → phkahler]

Sure, but it is now above the sea floor, and thus reachable by rain. As the article indicates.