Not much is stated on the MSM. Thanks for sharing with us! Somehow this kind of factual science reporting needs to reach the 50% or so of voters that have been indoctrinated to blame fossil fuels for many of societies problems
New ideas, reality based interpretations, out of the box thinking. Although that’s not new for geologists, volcanic activity did in the past, and will influence drastically the Earth’s evolution. Material expulsions and power shocks, sometimes catastrophical, will significantly affect our planet. That has been observed many times along the geological history of the Earth. Why anyone would think differently ?
Great focus. I learned about this last year: NASA: “When the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai volcano erupted on Jan. 15, it sent a tsunami racing around the world and set off a sonic boom that circled the globe twice. The underwater eruption in the South Pacific Ocean also blasted an enormous plume of water vapor into Earth’s stratosphere – enough to fill more than 58,000 Olympic-size swimming pools. The sheer amount of water vapor could be enough to temporarily affect Earth’s global average temperature.
The not only injected ash into the stratosphere but also large amounts of water vapor, breaking all records for direct injection of water vapor, by a volcano or otherwise, in the satellite era. …The excess water vapor injected by the Tonga volcano … could remain in the stratosphere for several years. This extra water vapor could influence atmospheric chemistry, boosting certain chemical reactions that could temporarily worsen depletion of the ozone layer. It could also influence surface temperatures … since water vapor traps heat.”
“We’ve never seen anything like it,” said Luis Millán, an atmospheric scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California.
It gets worse - Jeff Childer’s Coffee&Covid: “Over the next year it would turn out that NASA badly underestimated the amount of water Hunga Tonga vaporized into the atmosphere. Current estimates are three times higher than the original: scientists now think it was closer to 150,000 metric tons, or 40 trillion gallons, of super-heated water instantly injected into the atmosphere. Talk about a greenhouse. Water vapor — humidity — is a much more effective greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide.”
Not much is stated on the MSM. Thanks for sharing with us! Somehow this kind of factual science reporting needs to reach the 50% or so of voters that have been indoctrinated to blame fossil fuels for many of societies problems
That’s what I would call science.
New ideas, reality based interpretations, out of the box thinking. Although that’s not new for geologists, volcanic activity did in the past, and will influence drastically the Earth’s evolution. Material expulsions and power shocks, sometimes catastrophical, will significantly affect our planet. That has been observed many times along the geological history of the Earth. Why anyone would think differently ?
Great focus. I learned about this last year: NASA: “When the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai volcano erupted on Jan. 15, it sent a tsunami racing around the world and set off a sonic boom that circled the globe twice. The underwater eruption in the South Pacific Ocean also blasted an enormous plume of water vapor into Earth’s stratosphere – enough to fill more than 58,000 Olympic-size swimming pools. The sheer amount of water vapor could be enough to temporarily affect Earth’s global average temperature.
The not only injected ash into the stratosphere but also large amounts of water vapor, breaking all records for direct injection of water vapor, by a volcano or otherwise, in the satellite era. …The excess water vapor injected by the Tonga volcano … could remain in the stratosphere for several years. This extra water vapor could influence atmospheric chemistry, boosting certain chemical reactions that could temporarily worsen depletion of the ozone layer. It could also influence surface temperatures … since water vapor traps heat.”
“We’ve never seen anything like it,” said Luis Millán, an atmospheric scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California.
It gets worse - Jeff Childer’s Coffee&Covid: “Over the next year it would turn out that NASA badly underestimated the amount of water Hunga Tonga vaporized into the atmosphere. Current estimates are three times higher than the original: scientists now think it was closer to 150,000 metric tons, or 40 trillion gallons, of super-heated water instantly injected into the atmosphere. Talk about a greenhouse. Water vapor — humidity — is a much more effective greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide.”
Hey, it's not our (humanity's) fault!
Volcanic activity is a fascinating subject all its own.
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