Posted on 08/12/2021 5:11:40 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
London (AFP) - Climate change could magnify the atmospheric cooling effects of once-in-a-century volcanic eruptions, but also lessen the impact of smaller eruptions, according to new research released Thursday.
Scientists at the University of Cambridge and the UK Met Office examined how rising temperatures are likely to affect the ash and gases shot into the atmosphere by volcanoes.
The research, published in the journal Nature Communications, used climate and volcanic plume models to project future changes.
It also looked back at the worldwide impact of Mount Pinatubo's eruption in the Philippines in 1991, the second largest of the 20th century.
The study found that climate change, by warming the atmosphere, will allow future Pinatubo-sized plumes to rise even higher -- blocking more sunlight, dispersing aerosols faster and heightening the cooling effect worldwide by up to 15 percent.
"However, the effect of volcanic aerosols only persists for one or two years, while anthropogenic greenhouse gases will affect the climate for centuries," the researchers said.
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A whole lot of little ones can equal one big one. And this is what we have happening now.
where does it say that man’s contribution to green house gases is dwarfed by the contributions of just one erupting volcano...
these people are truly disgusting.
All this BS is just another way for controlling people and taking all their wealth.
Yes, and according to the Profit, Algore, the Arctic will be "ice free" by 2013 and hurricanes will become more intense.
Anybody notice how quiet the Pacific and Atlantic basins are now? The Pacific basin was WAY under seasonal norms last year and it appears to be on track for another below normal year. The Atlantic basin won't produce anywhere near the number of storms forecast this year, even when they name sub-tropical storms 1500 miles out in the Atlantic that are no threat to anyone.
What happens if we have another Pinatubo-level eruption? Let along something bigger like Krakatau in 1883 or Tambora in 1815?
Models also ignore that 75- 80% of eruptions are beneath the sea.
The effects of turbidity and warming of the water also seem absent from climate models.
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