Eric Worrall writes:
The volcano Mount Sangeang Api in the Lesser Sunda Islands has just erupted, sending a huge ash cloud 12 miles into the air.
Wikipedia describes Sangeang Api as a volcano complex with 2 active cones, Doro Api 1,949 metres (6,394 ft) and Doro Mantoi. 1,795 m (5,889 ft). Indonesia has a number of very active volcanoes, including volcanoes which threaten major cities, such as the infamous Mount Merapi.
Merapi, which has erupted several times in the last decade, is located just 17 miles from the city of Yogyakarta, home of 2.5 million people.
Near equatorial volcanoes like Sangeang Api are useful to global warming modellers, as the ash cloud can usually be detected in both hemispheres. They provide a convenient excuse for the short term cooling of the entire Earth.
Some spectacular pictures in the following link:-
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The pause was definitely caused by this eruption.
It turns out that the magma under this volcano is rich in thiotimoline, so it makes perfect sense.
Is that a flying saucer in the foreground? chuckle
When the AGWers use natural occurrences such as volcanoes or La Ninas to explain why global warming has “stalled” they shoot themselves in the foot. According to them, CO2 is the master control knob of climate. If one little volcano can counteract it’s effect, then they are indirectly admitting that their theory is completely false.
The GISS and NOAA have their orders to end the pause.
Volcanoes can erupt and create a year without a summer, the Arctic sea ice can reach record levels, the Antarctic sea ice can reach South Africa, the super el nino can turn into a super duper la nina.
It won’t matter, the GISS and NOAA will still produce numbers showing 2014 and/or 2015 as the warmest year ever.
12 miles? That’s into the stratosphere. Could be a significant event, climatewise, if there’s enough volume in the eruption. The Indonesian volcanoes have a lot of SO2, that generates the sulfate haze behind “Volcano Weather.”
Jim Brock says:
May 30, 2014 at 4:16 pm
> Is that a flying saucer in the foreground? chuckle
It’s a lenticular cloud. Common event around mountains.
97% of the scientist believe it is a flying saucer…so there.
Hooray, we have another year to frolic in our carbon intensive fun under our fortuitous ash umbrella, before we have to face “reality” again.
This will be a test of whether or not volcanoes really do cause cooling.
My personal experience in New Hampshire after Pinatubo was that the first winter wasn’t that bad, but after that winter we had a summer where the tomatoes never ripened.
It also will be interesting to see what sort of wrench this may throw in the works of the developing El Nino. Sunshine on the ocean fuels the trade winds that shape ENSO events, but the ash will cast a shadow. Where exactly will that shadow fall at first? As the ash disperses, where will the shadow fall second? How will the location of the shading effect the structures involved in the building-of or weakening-of the El Nino? (A shadow in one place might intensify a factor that the shadow in another place would weaken.)
The solution is bound to be subtle, not simple, but unfortunately the media is inhabited by simpletons. Prepare yourself to read articles so excruciatingly stupid that, well, you might want to visit your dentist beforehand, and find out how best to handle severe grinding of teeth.
The ash has closed Darwin airport:
“All flights in and out of Darwin International Airport have been cancelled following the eruption of Sangeang Api, off the northeast coast of the Indonesian island of Sumbawa on Friday evening.”
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/latest-news/volcanic-ash-closes-darwin-airport/story-fn3dxiwe-1226938115875
While volcanoes have become a fashionable ace-up-sleeve for alarmists, if some really dirty basaltic eruptions like Laki-Grimsvotn get going, it’s going to make it hard to make jet trails to climate conferences for a year of two. And with lots of grime and no sun on solar panels, solar might be the new black, and coal might be the new sustainable.
12 miles!…..uh, no
How much CO_2 is in that cloud? More than a couple of SUVs?
I hate to tell you that the so-called volcanic cooling is a fantasy. What happens is that the hot eruptive gases ascend into the stratosphere where they first warm it. A couple of years later the stratosphere does cool but this never reaches the troposphere. The so-called volcanic coolings identified by so-called “experts” are nothing more than La Nina coolings that accidentally happened to be where a volcanic cooling was expected. There are also eruptions where no cooling at all followed because by accident that spot was taken up by an El Nino warming. An example of an eruption followed by an alleged “cooling” is Pinatubo. That cooling assigned to it has nothing to do with the volcano but is simply the 1993 La Nina cooling. An example of a volcano without a following cooling is El Chichon because the spot where its cooing “ought to be” is occupied by the 1963 El Nino peak. I explained it all very clearly in my book “What Warming?” in 2010 but the so-called “climate” scientists are either too stupid or too arrogant to read the important literature in their own field. It even extends to climate models that have built-in code identifying all volcanic coolings, whether they actually exist or not.
YES volcanoes cause cooling. And furthermore, it increases rain and especially snow. We will have a hard winter and probably, not much in the way of summer since we are already in a cool cycle, this is rather dangerous.
1983 El Nino peak
I hate volcanos. They muddy the water in more ways than one.
Be nice, nobody’s said anything yet.
Which might be a good sign.
I’d rather read/see more about the volcano itself.
Leave the political implications to those that might dare to invoke them.
The 1315-1317 European famine was caused by a volcano. Erupted for 2 yrs. cooling the weather were the crops could not grow….
The lenticular cloud is more likely to be an artifact of the eruption cloud itself rather than being related to mountains. Similar to the cappus cloud one finds associated with convective cloud.
emsnews says: on May 30, 2014 at 5:08 pm:
“YES volcanoes cause cooling. And furthermore, it increases rain and especially snow.”
You are brainwashed, emsnews. They use accidental coincidences to make that claim. It so happens that the ENSO oscillation and the occurrence of volcanic eruptions are totally independent identities and when a volcano erupts its timing can put it anywhere between an El Nino peak and a La Nina valley of the ENSO system. As a consequence, there are also intermediate-sized “volcanic coolings” that just happened to straddle the ENSO peak/valley ensemble. Take a look at some volcanic cooling charts that also show the ENSO system well and do a little thinking instead of parroting dogma.
Arno Arrak says: “The so-called volcanic coolings identified by so-called “experts” are nothing more than La Nina coolings that accidentally happened to be where a volcanic cooling was expected.”
Once again, this is nonsense. There were no–zero, nada, none–no La Nina events from 1991 to 1994. Yet we can plainly sea that sea surface temperatures for the Atlantic, Indian and West Pacific oceans dropped, when they should have been warming in response to a series of El Nino events:
http://bobtisdale.files.wordpress.com/2013/01/figure-18-detrended-row-vs-nino3-4.png
The graph is from the post here:
http://bobtisdale.wordpress.com/2013/01/25/untruths-falsehoods-fabrications-misrepresentations/
It happens that I had just looked up an earlier article on lenticular clouds:
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/10/09/earth-versus-the-flying-saucers/
emsnews says: on May 30, 2014 at 5:08 pm:
“YES volcanoes cause cooling. And furthermore, it increases rain and especially snow.”
You don’t know anything, emsnews. They use accidental coincidences to make that claim. It so happens that the ENSO oscillation and the occurrence of volcanic eruptions are totally independent identities and when a volcano erupts its timing can put it anywhere between an El Nino peak and a La Nina valley of the ENSO system. As a consequence, there are also intermediate-sized “volcanic coolings” that just happened to straddle the ENSO peak/valley ensemble. Take a look at some volcanic cooling charts that also show the ENSO system well and do a little thinking instead of spewing dogma.
Oops! There goes the super El Nino. THere are going to be some very disappointed alarmists.