3rd October - Today's News: If a Volcano Erupts and No-one Sees it, does it Release CO2?

Pacific sees storm deja vu as Atlantic's time winds down

In the US, the Weather Channel's list of winter storms takes battering from forecasters

In Japan, 16 still missing on volcano; typhoon threatens recovery effort

And underwater landslide doubled sixe of 2011 Japanese tsunami

Walruses mass in vast numbers on Alaska beach as sea ice retreats

Antarctic sea ice hits new max; continent still warming

It's good to see that forests are emerging out from the shadow of fossil fuels in climate debate - but is it too little too late?

Previously unseen details of  seafloor exposed in new map - which prompts the latest daft question from Wattsy:  one wonders how many of these newly found thousands of volcanic seamounts are producing CO2 that bubble into the ocean?  Because as everyone knows, volcanoes only produce CO2 (or warm the oceans) if we know they are there ...... right?   Er ..... Idiots!   (Though good to see my old friend Hans Erren stepping in with a more sober comment there, even if he is ignored ....)