Posted on 12/21/2017 8:01:03 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
Tens of thousands of people have evacuated their land in Bali as the nearby volcano Mount Agung angrily spits ash and its magma rises. Many Balinese hold the mountain sacred and accept its occasional outbursts as moral admonishments whereas geologists consider this activity a routine part of Earth’s behavior. But scientists have found another force - climate change - affects the frequency of eruptions. Now a new study shows even relatively minor climate variations may have such an influence. If they are right, today’s global warming could mean more and bigger volcanic eruptions in the future.
The new study is “looking at maybe the smallest-magnitude climate change yet to show it has influence on volcanic activity,” says Ben Edwards, an associate professor of geology at Dickinson College. “To see this change in an interglacial period indicates that there’s an even more subtle relationship between climate change and volcanism” than scientists previously thought. Julie Schindlbeck, a volcanologist at Heidelberg University in Germany, says the work shows “maybe even small changes in ice volume can really affect volcanism.”
Whether this phenomenon will occur with modern-day climate change is not yet known. But Swindles says the glacier coverage changes his team studied are similar in magnitude to what Earth will likely experience due to human-influenced warming.
(Excerpt) Read more at scientificamerican.com ...
Well now they have that base covered, don’t they?
Have they claimed that “global warming” causes earthquakes yet?
You’ve made a mistake. April Fool’s Day is 101 days from today.
Scientific American used to be my favorite magazine. It was lovely.
The only thing globull warming does not seem to cause is a rise in temperature.
Blah blah blah - we are all going to die. Send lots of money and the volcanoes can be stopped. So happy I don’t live in a volcano zone.
Gorebull warmalcolding: is there anything it can’t do?
“Scientific” American...hardly. These co-opted liars have perverted science for their own political and devious ends. Who reads their trash?
So, basically you have a molten planet with a thin crust floating on the top. What could go wrong?
Send corks so the volcanoes can be plugged.
and National Geographic, and ........
Corruption isn’t just for politicians
My bread popped out of the toaster early this morning. Must be GW.
‘likely’ ‘maybe’ ‘may’ ‘could’ ‘possibly’. The lexicon of the Climate Changers.
If these people only knew how idiotic and stupid they sound......................
And the volcano eruptions will put particulates in the air that will cool the planet.
See? Mother Earth has this stuff under control. We've got nothing to worry abut.
Or maybe even small changes in volcanism can really affect ice volume?
The TRUTH about the increase in earthquakes and volcanoes...
Isaiah 13:13
Therefore I will make the heavens tremble, and the earth will be shaken out of its place, at the wrath of the Lord of hosts in the day of His fierce anger.
UnScientific American.
I always thought Geology 101 was the class all Journalism students took to get their “Science” requirement.
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