Posted on 12/21/2017 8:01:03 AM PST by 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 Earths 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, todays 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 theres 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.
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Didn’t I just read that that sunspot activity has greatly decreased which will lead to overall cooling in the next few years...
Agreed. But they went to Hades at least 25 years ago, just like National Geographic. Two wonderful institutions ruined by Leftism.
Better order a case or two of that BS spray. As they get cornered, the libs all start shrieking. There will be a final flurry of climate change scare articles before the whole thing fizzles out.
Wait a minute! Just YESTERDAY I read that we were going back into an Ice Age! Can’t we just throw snow cones into the mouth of these volcanoes?
*SMIRK*
Oh, it never ends, does it? Where there is CASH to be made, you’ll find these Global Warming/Climate Change/End-O-the World LUNATICS.
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