The hilarious part is that right now, the world is at great risk of being thrown into a period of extreme cold.
Not only are we in a decade of strong cooling, but the Chilean volcano Chaiten is showing signs of turning from a VEI5 volcano, like Mt St Helens and Mt Pinatubo, into a VEI6 volcano, like Krakatoa. Typically a plinian eruption, which this is, ends in a final large eruptive event.
Fortunately, it is inland, so after a cataclysmic eruption there is no chance of the sea rushing in and causing a horrific steam explosion.
However, the volcanic ash Krakatoa spewed lowered worldwide temperature by about 1.2 degrees Celsius, which means two or more degrees Fahrenheit. But it was located about on the equator. Chaiten is on a far southern latitude, so the southern hemisphere could get much colder.
Combine that with much greater cloud cover because of lower solar activity, clouds full of heat reflecting sulfurous acid, could make the southern hemisphere extremely cold.
I could use some global warming this week-end, instead, it’s overcast and in the 50s with a chance of dribbles the next couple days.. two of the last three years have been like this. Damn, where is that global warming when ya need some?