Get Ready for More Volcanic Eruptions as the Planet Warms

Scientific American ^ | December 1, 2017 | By Annie Sneed

[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.

[fella]

The Sun is Blank; NASA Data Shows it to be Dimming

[RightGeek]

[TomGuy]

Yeah, and if ol’ Sol goes out, it's gonna get brisk.

Luckily, I have two space heaters.

[csvset]

[JimSEA]

Agung and many other volcanos erupt periodically and always have. This author is using a pretext to push an ideology.

[cpdiii]

“Scientific” American...hardly. These co-opted liars have perverted science for their own political and devious ends. Who reads their trash?

I dropped my subscription many years ago due to their political activism. I also dropped National Geographic for the same reason.

These two once great magazines are no more great nor truthful. They have committed suicide by lie.

[arthurus]

They are getting frantic to get their AGW world controls in place before it becomes obvious that the direction, if anything, is the other way, what with sunspots becoming fewer and fewer and i think we went 97 days with no sunspots and the sun dimming in conjunction. We should start seeing the results of all that in the next couple of years, even though the AGWists will still be calling it all Climate Change and Human Caused. Whatever eventuates it will be absolute reasons for total control of the world by the Communist Left.

[Truthoverpower]

Old economy buyer you’re so fast I don’t even have time to say
where is Goebbles ? Anymore !

[Vehmgericht]

Mount Agung is angry. Don’t make Mount Agung angry. Make Mount Agung laugh. Put on one of those pink hats and scream at the moon. You’ll be OK.

[Myrddin]

More crap passing for "science". Reduced solar activity is associated with increased earthquakes and volcanic activity. The earth's magnetic field weakens and allows more cosmic rays to penetrate the atmosphere. That increases nucleation of cloud droplets. More clouds, additional particulates in the air (dust, sulfates), lower solar output bring on ice ages. The gas giant planets Jupiter and Saturn periodically move in phase such that they pull the earth a greater distance from the sun. By the simple 1/r^2 law of physics, less solar energy arrives at the earth's surface. Another factor in ice ages. All normal physical cycles. Not a damn thing to do with "human activity". Nothing that taxing the crap out of population and making them live as beggars will change.

[Yaelle]

Ok, I’m ready.

[EdnaMode]

LOL. Great idea!

[ßuddaßudd]

Lest week we were approaching the solar minimum,,
This week we are increasing the global warming,,
Next week these will cancel each other out and we will be in prefect equilibrium ..

[TADSLOS]

I guess I need to extinguish my barbecue grill. Don’t want to be stirring up in volcanoes here in central Texas.

👀🌋

[HotHunt]

Backtrack on the Paris Accords.

To stop the earthquakes.

Quick, we don't have much time.....

[NewHampshireDuo]

I subscribed from 1964 through the mid ‘90s. Couldn’t stand how the content was evolving away from real science.

[PIF]

Warning! Human activity creates so much heat that it more than makes up for the rapidly cooling sun, that bright light in the sky, you’ll know it when you see it.

[Kickass Conservative]

Gee, I thought erupting Volcanoes warmed the atmosphere.

Silly me.

Cause and Effect is now Effect and Cause.

[dila813]

global warming will also cause incredible visits from microscopic aliens causing all white people to oppress minorities.

[Mastador1]