Volcano porn. Many more at link.
Posted on 12/09/2015 11:35:37 PM PST by JimSEA
Several massive volcanic erupted around the world in 2015.
Indonesia’s Mount Sinabung, one of more than 100 active volcanoes in the country, emitted enormous plumes of smoke and ash throughout the year, leading to the evacuation of more than 10,000. And just earlier this month, Nicaragua’s Momotombo volcano reactivated after it was dormant for more than 100 years.
Here are the the other volcanoes that lit up the sky this year.
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Volcano porn. Many more at link.
That’s pretty freaky looking.
Not from recent history but how many songs are written about them,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXwzSPc0FoA
And none of these volcanoes emit CO2 at all? Not a smidgen?
At least according to the global warming crowd.
GLOBAL WARMING TAX ON ALL VOLCANOES NOW!!!
Great photos. Thanks.
Plus all of the undersea volcanism, including the mid-oceanic spreading center which snakes around the globe as a continuous 40,500 mile-long ridge.
I’ve been to the top of Mt. Etna in Sicily (early ‘70s and wasn’t active at the time). It was lunar-landscape freaky.
I went back in maybe 2000(?) but could only get half way up as the area to take the tour to the top...was gone (restaurants, shops, hotel).
I think Etna has been significantly more active since even then.
The most significant climate impacts from volcanic injections into the stratosphere come from the conversion of sulfur dioxide to sulfuric acid, which condenses rapidly in the stratosphere to form fine sulfate aerosols. The aerosols increase the reflection of radiation from the Sun back into space, cooling the Earth’s lower atmosphere or troposphere. Several eruptions during the past century have caused a decline in the average temperature at the Earth’s surface of up to half a degree (Fahrenheit scale) for periods of one to three years.
While sulfur dioxide released in contemporary volcanic eruptions has occasionally caused detectable global cooling of the lower atmosphere, the carbon dioxide released in contemporary volcanic eruptions has never caused detectable global warming of the atmosphere.
http://volcanoes.usgs.gov/hazards/gas/climate.php
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