[More crazy talk from Carnegie Institute’s Ken Caldiera… Anthony] Washington, DC– Major volcanic eruptions spew ash particles into the atmosphere, which reflect some of the Sun’s radiation back into space…
Category: Volcanoes
Gangs of Pompeii: Volcanologists vs Archaeologists
Guest “you couldn’t make this sort of schist up, if you were trying” by David Middleton Pompeii row erupts between rival scientific factions Volcanologists say excavations by archaeologists are destroying…
Birth of an underwater volcano: “This thing was built from zero in 6 months!”… Which is a lot less than 12 years
Guest geological observation by David Middleton From the American Association for the Advancement of SCIENCE! of America… Ship spies largest underwater eruption everBy Roland PeaseMay. 21, 2019 , 1:20 PM…
Internet Science Made Stupid: “Scientists Warn Gulf Of Mexico ‘Supervolcano’ About To Erupt”
Guest geological storytelling by David Middleton In my recent post, How Climate Change Buried a Desert 20,000 Feet Beneath the Gulf of Mexico Seafloor, we discussed the rifting that enabled…
New evidence suggests volcanoes caused biggest mass extinction ever
Mercury found in ancient rock around the world supports theory that eruptions caused ‘Great Dying’ 252 million years ago. From the University of Cincinnati: Researchers say mercury buried in ancient…
Guess where the biggest volcanic eruption of 2018 was? Hint (not Hawaii)
There have been voluminous headlines, photos, and video describing eruptions on Hawaii’s Kilaueua in 2018, and while they were visually impressive, when it comes to potentially climate altering sulfur dioxide,…
Revising the history of big, climate-altering volcanic eruptions
New method, co-developed at UMD, refines the 2,600-year history of large eruptions that inject planet-cooling particles into the stratosphere From the UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND For all their destructive power, most…
Spot The Volcano, 1815 Edition
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach It’s been a while since I played “Spot The Volcano”. The premise of the game is that the decrease in temperatures from volcanic eruptions is…
USGS issues first USA Volcano Threat Assessment in over a decade
18 volcanoes in the USA are classified as “very high threat”, many are in the Pacific Northwest. The United States has 161 young, active volcanoes within its borders. Since 1980, there…
Krakatoa volcano stirs to life again
The volcanic island of Krakatau (previously called Krakatoa) is situated in the Sunda Strait between the islands of Java and Sumatra in the Indonesian province of Lampung. The name is also used for the surrounding island group comprising the remnants of…
Iceland’s monster volcano charging up for eruption
The Katla volcano, hidden beneath the ice cap of Mýrdalsjökull glacier in Iceland, has historically erupted violently once every 40-80 years. In-as-much as it’s last such eruption took place one…
Worrying: ‘Child of Krakatau’ volcano stirs to life in the Pacific
From the “this can’t be good” department and AFP: An Indonesian volcano known as the “child” of the legendary Krakatoa erupted on Thursday, spewing a plume of ash high into…
Has a new volcano formed in Hawaii?
Story by David Rothery Professor of Planetary Geosciences, The Open University Kilauea, the most active volcano on Hawaii, has been in continual eruption since 1983. It entered a new phase in early May…
Stacking Up Volcanoes
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach [See Update at end] As readers of my posts know, I’ve held for many years that there are a variety of emergent phenomena that…
Spectacular flyover video of Kilauea eruption shows massive devastation
Aerial Survey of River of Lava as it Flows Down Valley in Hawaii Footage from an Hawaii Army National Guard survey of the Kilauea eruption. Starting with fissure eight,…
The month-long Kilauea eruption as seen from orbit
In early May 2018, an eruption on Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano began to unfold. Here’s what satellites saw in the first few weeks of the eruption. This video is a compendium…
Scientists listen to giant pipe organ in a volcano – to monitor eruptions
From the AGU and the “lava tooting” department VOLCANO MUSIC COULD HELP SCIENTISTS MONITOR ERUPTIONS WASHINGTON — A volcano in Ecuador with a deep cylindrical crater might be the largest…
When Eruptions Don’t
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Inspired by Richard Keen’s interesting WUWT post on using eclipses to determine the clarity of the atmosphere, I went to the website of the Hawaiian Mauna…
60,000 gallons of Flammable Liquid Removed From Volcano Risk Hawaii Geothermal Plant
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Puna Geothermal Venture has removed 60,000 litres gallons of flammable Pentane from a geothermal plant in the path of the Hawaii volcanic eruption. But concerns…
Japan's Mount Io erupts for the first time in 250 years
From wire reports: A volcano in southern Japan, Mount Io, erupted for the first time since 1768 on Thursday, spewing steam and ash 400 meters (1,300 feet) into the air.…
Claim: Global Warming Will Trigger Volcanic Eruptions
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Volcanic eruptions are now the fault of that wicked little molecule. Climate change could trigger volcanic eruptions across the world, warn scientists Melting of ice…
NASA: volcanic magma plume under Antarctica may explain ice sheet instability
From NASA’s Jet propulsion Laboratory and the “inconvenient science” department comes this study that dashes hopes of pinning melting in Antarctica entirely on human activity. Hot News from the Antarctic…
Study: Ice sheets may melt rapidly in response to soot from distant volcanoes
Study of ancient eruptions shows modern ice sheets could be vulnerable From THE EARTH INSTITUTE AT COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY and the “dirty ice” melts faster department Volcanic eruptions have been known…
Using the Orbiting Carbon Observatory for something useful: monitoring potential volcanic eruptions
From MICHIGAN TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY Is it gonna blow? Measuring volcanic emissions from space Late last month, a stratovolcano in Bali named Mount Agung began to smoke. Little earthquakes trembled beneath the…
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