not to be the grammar police, but i am fairly certain you meant “more gooder and more gooder.”

No no no… the proper usage is “more gooderer and most gooderest”!
;-)

So now that we have more volcanos going off anyone have any theories as to why that might be?…

Leigh (09:17:29) :

Does anyone have any information on the type of photo equipment that was used to capture this amazing picture (camera, format size, lens, etc.,?)
Failing that, does anyone know where I can investigate this information?

D2X.

NASA’s website here gives you the info.

I should have been more precise – climate models do represent (via sulfate injection) known volcanic eruptions. They don’t (and cannot) predict future ones.

There is a index called VEI, the so-called Volcanic Explosivity Index wich runs from a scale from 0 to 8.

On the low-end of the index you find volcano’s like Mauna Loa and Stromboli with both scoring a 0 wich means, daily eruptions with around 10.000 cubic meters of material comming out of the volcano.

Mount Pelee wich erupted in 1902 and would get a 4 on the VEI, Mount St. Helens scores a 5 and Mount Pinatobu gets a 6, a VEI of 6 or higher means that that eruption has the power to change temperatures and weather conditions worldwide. Mount Tambora in 1815 exploded wich such force that it scores 7 on the VEI.

And the last time that a volcano erupted with a VEI of 8 was 73.000 years ago when the Toba super erruption took place and nearly wiped humanity of the face of the earth.

Most likely the Sarychev Peak score somewhere between a 3 and 4 on the Volcanic Explosivity Index

If they do, they can’t do it accurately because eruptions are random events and each random event is unique in both the length of the eruption and the amoune of ash & SO2 ejected. Any modeling would be a guesstimate or average. I mean, how can a ‘climate’ model accurately forecast a random geological event with 2 unique unknowns?

Just wondering…

Jeff

‘Tis a pity JH wasn’t protesting on the top of this one at the time, it would have saved a lot of pain & heartache for everyone. Does getting onself arrested constitute an act of professional misconduct?

“Tell me please……could an event like this be a non-human cause for “global-warming”?”

Absolutely not! I’ll make you a bet that within 48 hours if you do a google search, there will be some story of how this is a “result” of human caused global warming.

susema (05:00:05) :

Tell me please……could an event like this be a non-human cause for “global-warming”?

Other way around. Big eruptions near the equator can put a lot of ejecta up into the stratosphere. If enough material gets up there it can spead around the globe and cause a slight amount of Global cooling – not warming. Read up on the 1815 ” year without summmer – eruption of Tambora Indonesia. Tambora’s eruption would have been up to 1000 times more powerful than the image as shown.

Although this is a spectacular image of a Volcanic eruption the event itself is only a relatively small one.

Caldera forming eruptions are the ones considered to really interrupt the climate.

Chaiten in Southern Chile is still very active. The eruption and ongoing activity are unprecedented in volcanological written history. It’s been continually active for over a year and is getting larger and larger daily. There is a possibility that this could erupt and reform a caldera. If this happens there could be some very interesting developments.

I guess that was a big Earth sneeze… Gesundheit!

REPLY: so what does that make lava bombs?

Snot rockets…as any cyclist would know!