Posted on 07/30/2023 5:26:41 AM PDT by MtnClimber
The current heat wave is being relentlessly blamed on increasing levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, but there is a much more plausible explanation, one that is virtually endorsed by two of the world’s leading scientific organizations. It turns out that levels of water vapor in the atmosphere have dramatically increased over the last year-and-a-half, and water vapor is well recognized as a greenhouse gas, whose heightened presence leads to higher temperatures, a mechanism that dwarfs any effect CO2 may have.
So, why has atmospheric water vapor increased so dramatically? Because of a historic, gigantic volcanic eruption last year that I – probably along with you -- had never heard of. The mass media ignored it because it took place 490 feet underwater in the South Pacific. Don’t take it from me, take it from NASA (and please do follow the link to see time lapse satellite imagery of the underwater eruption and subsequent plume of gasses and water injected into the atmosphere):
When the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai volcano erupted on Jan. 15, it sent a tsunami racing around the world and set off a sonic boom that circled the globe twice. The underwater eruption in the South Pacific Ocean also blasted an enormous plume of water vapor into Earth’s stratosphere – enough to fill more than 58,000 Olympic-size swimming pools. The sheer amount of water vapor could be enough to temporarily affect Earth’s global average temperature.
“We’ve never seen anything like it,” said Luis Millán, an atmospheric scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California. He led a new study examining the amount of water vapor that the Tonga volcano injected into the stratosphere, the layer of the atmosphere between about 8 and 33 miles (12 and 53 kilometers) above Earth’s surface.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
I’ve seen figures of several hundred thousand megatons for Yellowstone
Bad day for middle America…
Imagine what a Yellowstone eruption yield was…
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God forbid…
I remember seeing that video. It was big news for a short time. BUT, of course, it doesn’t follow the “agenda”….
Bad day for the Northern Hemispere.
Mount Tambora triggered the “Year Without a Summer” in 1816.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/17/world/tambora-eruption-year-without-summer-scn/index.html
Joe Biden and the Volcano
Does that imply by relation that setting off atomic bombs on the seabed, large amounts of water vapor could be sent into the atmosphere and mimic this natural volcanic effect as well?
I wonder if there is comparative data someone has done relating the effects of a bomb detonation and underwater volcanic eruption? Are they similar in heat and water vapor generated?
This goes to show that Earths climate is not dependent one just one thing, our climate is and endless chain of interconnected events and circumstances so vast that no one can ever completely predict with 100% accuracy the weather on this planet.
These articles always try to give you a point of reference to something we have daily. Ohhhh, big scary number, sounds like a lot.
So, engineer nerd that I am, I looked it up. One Olympic sized swimming pool is 2,500 m^3 (cubic meters). Multiply by 58,000 so that's 145,000,000 m^3 (cubic meters) of water. Or 0.145 km^3 (cubic kilometers). Or for the metrically challenged among us 0.0348 mi^3 (cubic miles).
To me that doesn't sound like so very much in comparison to the entire earth's atmosphere. But who knows. I'd like to know how much water vapor is in all those white puffy clouds we have every day.
Exactly. We shouldn't accept the premise of the climate hoaxsters that it is any warmer than usual this summer. It is not. Once we start trying to explain the "unusual heat" then we lose the main argument.
There is no climate crisis. There is no global warming beyond the naturally occurring temperature oscillations between little ice ages.
I watched a show last night called “Ancient Armageddon” - about the quick collapse and demise of bronze-era civilizations.
One of the leading factors was a 150-year drought - blamed on climate change.
Texas had the heat waves of 1930 and 1980. 1980 was 43 years ago.
They'll pass new laws prohibiting the sale of any new cooking device, or device of any sort in the USA, capable of heating water to the boiling point. That will obviously reduce the amount of water vapor in the atmosphere. China and India exempted because they are developing nations.
Volume calculation:
58,000 Olympic size pools at 2m deep 58000(50 x 25 x 2) = 1.45 E8m³ = Cube with 525m per side.
Seems like a small volume of water compared to the volume of the earths atmosphere. I’m not disputing the claim that the volcanic water vapor release is partially responsible for the higher temperatures. I would like to know how the volumetric estimate came about.
This makes much more sense than fooking “climate change”
Are they saying that their ‘computer models’ aren’t taking into account water vapor increases due to the eruption of a volcano?
...but but but...consensus!!
Hunga Tonga- Hunga!
Wow, good to be aware of. This volcano put more water into the atmosphere, by far, than any other volcano since NASA has been taking measurements, causing an increase in stratospheric water vapor of between 10% and 30%, yet not a peep about it anywhere.
Bull. “Excess water” into the air doesn’t take years to precipitate out. It doesn’t behave like volcanic ash.
The cause for the current heat wave is what english speaking peoples in the northern hemisphere call “July”.
That’s an interesting explanation, but I don’t think it’s been that hot a summer.
Excellent.
Trust science...but not the scientist .... whether CovID or climate.
Trust God..... but not the bishop.
Is the messenger the message?
Bump
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