July '08: Boiling Hot Water Found in Frigid Arctic Sea | LiveScience

Many miles inside the Arctic Circle, scientists have found elusive vents of scalding liquid rising out of the seafloor at temperatures that are more than twice the boiling point of water.

The cluster of five hydrothermal vents, also called black smokers, were discovered farther north than any others previously identified. The vents, one of which towers four stories high, are located on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge between Greenland and Norway, more than 120 miles farther north than other known vents.

Do the climate modellers know the precise location and variation of all of these vents, and do the models perfectly handle this factor along with hundreds of others, along with all variations of each factor as well as all interactions between these factors?