Can volcanoes reduce global warming? Sure. But the point of this research is simply to provide cover for those who are pushing anthropogenic global warming in an age where atmospheric concentrations of CO2 continues to rise but the global temperature stagnates
(Business Line) Sulphur dioxide emissions from moderate volcanoes around the world can mask some of the effects of global warming by 25 per cent, a new study has found.
A team led by the University of Colorado Boulder looking for clues about why Earth did not warm as much as scientists expected between 2000 and 2010 now thinks the culprits are hiding in plain sight. (snip)
Neely said previous observations suggest that increases in stratospheric aerosols since 2000 have counter balanced as much as 25 per cent of the warming scientists blame on human greenhouse gas emissions.
It’s always about protecting the cult.
“But overall these eruptions are not going to counter the greenhouse effect. Emissions of volcanic gases go up and down, helping to cool or heat the planet, while greenhouse gas emissions from human activity just continue to go up,†Toon said.
Sixteen years with no increase in the global temperature. A whopping .28F increase since 1990. Yet, CO2 goes up. Funny how Warmist prognostications always fail.
The problem with this hypothesis is that volcanoes have been extraordinarily calm for the last decade. All really major eruptions were extraordinarily short-lived. And it is not volcanic gasses that temper global temperatures, it is dust. In fact the vast majority of volcanic gases are greenhouse gases with one notable exception.
They are starting to set up the meme.
THEY and their models can’t be wrong, so there must be a reason, even if not made visible yet. The volcanos will erupt someday. Then, they’ll have their answers.
If these people believed that sidewalks never get wet, they would find a way to explain away rain, piss and spilled beer.
Have the scientist listed from science daily, started their project. The article, was it 2 years ago, was injecting SO2 into the high atmosphere, without any approvals, to lower the temperature. Supposedly from the southern Urals, to the Central nepals area.