Posted on 11/29/2023 5:30:07 AM PST by Red Badger
The media just forgets all about it
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“For leftists, history began last week”
Rush Limbaugh
It may be warmer in the southern hemisphere, but here in Oklahoma, it’s been unseasonably cold this fall. Normally, my roses bloom until as late as the middle of December. But this year, we’ve already had temperatures in the 20’s. Five years ago, one weather site reported average November temps vacillate between 40°F and 60°F. We have had some 60’s, but those 20’s are brutal.
Run away! RUN AWAY!!
Good grief! When the Creator designed and built the whole thing, it was according to a sustainable cycle of calm / cataclysm / decline / recovery / repeat [ad infinitum].
The problem with “science” is that too many dullards - who register themselves as scientists but who are mere technicians [at best] - reject the “rational universe” model that is available only to people who understand that unless there is a Creator, there can never be a rational understanding of physical laws.
Correct. The addition of 150 million tons of water vapor is acknowledged even by NASA as the likely cause of a warmer than usual 2023, along with a developing elNino.Had nothing to do with CO2 molecules.
If it wasn’t for all you SUV drivers that volcano never would have erupted. (channeling climate change koolaid drinkers)
As AlGore says “An Inconvenient Truth...”
Thanks Red Badger.
So what is the bottom line?
Besides, no one lives forever?
I had a discussion along these lines with a scientist (who grifted via academia for his entire career) whose son is completing a PhD is volcanology. The man with whom I spoke was dismissive of the fact that we (in the “West”) can never hope to offset the carbon emissions of China.
Said old man scientist - the glaciers are melting away rapidly because of climate change. Etc.
These people are divorced from reality.
Not only did the article fail to mention that the huge amount (”300 billion pounds) of water vapor is a greenhouse gas, it also doesn’t mention that the recent increases in global atmospheric temperatures as measured by satellites, was likely caused by this water vapor, not by ‘Climate Change’.
300 billion lbs. of water sounds like a lot. But, it’s not really THAT much: Just 1 cubic mile of water is 9,181,017,236,653 pounds. And in one day, something over 9 cubic miles of water evaporates, transpires, etc., into Earth’s atmosphere.
Granted that most of that 9 cubic miles of water doesn’t usually end up in the stratosphere, and that most volcanos don’t put much water 30 miles up, either. (Note that the article doesn’t actually state what fraction of Tonga’s 300 billion lbs. made it 30 miles up, or what the significance is if it’s 30 miles up vs. 13 miles up.)
Tambora had the greatest effect on the climate, as it chucked a lot more material, especially ash, into the atmosphere / stratosphere. Interestingly, it’s plume is estimated to have peaked at under 30 miles high — there are some interesting relationships between intensity and duration that affect the “Volcanic Emissivity Index” used to rate volcanos. In terms of “bang”, the 3rd explosion at Krakatoa was the loudest sound in recorded history, but in total material blasted out, Tambora was considerably larger.
Major / exceptional eruptions of note:
Tambora VEI = 7, plume ~ 29 miles high
Krakatoa VEI = 6, plume ~ 50 miles high
Pinatubo VEI = 6.0, plume ~ 28 miles high
Tonga VEI = 5.7, plume ~ 30+ miles high
Precisely my point!
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