From NYU: New evidence that Siberian volcanic eruptions caused extinction 250 million yrs ago A team of scientists has found new evidence that the Great Permian Extinction, which occurred approximately…
Category: Volcanoes
Thousands flee 'imminent' Bali volcano eruption
[Update 9/25 12:05 am. I have change the title from 240,000 to thousands to reflect the change in the underlying story and am modifying the first sentence of the post…
Volcanic Northern Winters
I see there’s a new study, unfortunately paywalled, which starts out by saying: Observations show that all recent large tropical volcanic eruptions (1850-present) were followed by surface winter warming in…
Summer of 1816 in New Hampshire: A Tale of Two Freezes
Preface This web page was written in 2016 during the 200th anniversary of the Year without a Summer. It probably has a lot of company, it certainly does with many…
6.4 Japan Earthquake / Tambora Scale VEI-7 Volcano Alert
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Japan has heightened monitoring on the Island of Kyushu, in the wake of a 6.4 Earthquake. Kyushu is a highly volcanic region which includes a…
Pavlof Volcano in Alaska Erupts Sending Ash Upwards 20,000 Feet
The Pavlof Volcano, which is about 600 miles southwest of Anchorage on the Aleutian Islands, erupted at 4:18 p.m. local time on Sunday, March 27th. The eruption sent ash 20,000…
Volcanoes and Ozone: Their Interactive Effect on Climate Change
Guest essay by David Bennett Laing, Asst. Prof.of Geology, Univ. of Maine (retired) Two different styles of volcanic eruption appear to have been the principal determinants of climate change throughout…
Claim: NASA simulation indicates ancient flood volcanoes could have altered climate
From NASA/GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER and the “maybe they should have checked with Willis first” department comes this modeling claim: In June, 1991, Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines exploded, blasting…
Why Volcanoes Don't Matter Much
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach The word “forcing” is what is called a “term of art” in climate science. A term of art means a word that is used in…
Another excuse for 'the pause' – it's a 'blip' from volcanoes, or something
From the University of Edinburgh: Warming slow-down not the end of climate change, study shows A slow-down in global warming is not a sign that climate change is ending, but…
Another thing more worrisome than global warming: Yellowstone super-volcano has 4x more magma than once thought
From the University of Utah and the “game over if it blows” department: In a big eruption, Yellowstone would eject 1,000 times as much material as the 1980 Mount St.…
Are we ready for the next volcanic catastrophe?
Eric Worrall writes: The Guardian has published an unusually interesting article about the danger to our civilisation, of a new Tambora scale volcanic eruption. According to Bill McGuire, professor emeritus…
Early Sunspots and Volcanoes
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Well, as often happens I started out in one direction and then I got sidetractored … I wanted to respond to Michele Casati’s claim in…
Inconvenient study: Seafloor volcano pulses may alter climate – models may be wrong
New data show strikingly regular patterns, from weeks to eons From The Earth Institute at Columbia University: Vast ranges of volcanoes hidden under the oceans are presumed by scientists to…
Time Magazine's Jeffrey Kluger writes what might possibly be the stupidest article about climate ever – climate change causes volcanoes
The stupid, it burns like a magnesium flare. Excerpt from the article: Now, you can add yet another problem to the climate change hit list: volcanoes. That’s the word from…
Ben Santer tries to explain 'the pause' in global warming
Add it to the list of over 50 excuses for the pause from climate science now on record…this time its small volcanoes. Small volcanic eruptions partly explain ‘warming hiatus’ From…
Study: Iceland's Bárðarbunga volcano sits on a massive magma hot spot
By Kat Kerlin, UC Davis Spectacular eruptions at Bárðarbunga volcano in central Iceland have been spewing lava continuously since Aug. 31. Massive amounts of erupting lava are connected to the…
Another story about global warming causing volcanoes…
From the National Post Is it volcano season? From Japan to Iceland, scientists probe the reasons why there are so many eruptions lately Eruptions caused by climate change In recent…
Laki caused 1783 – could Iceland's Bardarbunga Volcano trigger another 'Year Without a Summer'?
Eric Worrall writes: The British and Icelandic MET offices are expressing concern about the possible effect on the climate, of a potentially enormous volcanic eruption in Iceland. According to The…
Iceland's 'Bardarbunga' volcano is lighting up the night sky
The image is from the “Live from Iceland” Mila webcam. A second webcam image shows the eruption in progress from a different angle. h/t to Chris Beal via Twitter The…
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