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| Environmental Discussion This is a discussion on How many global warming equivalents does a volcano spew out? within the Environmental Discussion forums, part of the PriusChat Forums category; Cool pictures. Fotos Tormenta eléctrica en erupción del volcán Chaitén - TERRA I wonder if one day of this stuff ... |
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My Car: 2006 Prius Package: #1 Nominated 0 Times in 0 Posts TOTM Awards: 0 Friends: 1 | Cool pictures. Fotos Tormenta eléctrica en erupción del volcán Chaitén - TERRA I wonder if one day of this stuff is equal to/more than/less than what we humans collectively spew in one day. If it is more, to what order of magnitude is it more? |
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My Car: 2005 Prius Package: #4 Nominated 0 Times in 0 Posts TOTM Awards: 0 Friends: 2 | Quote:
Here's a brief general discussion: RealClimate Can't seem to find a graph handy, sorry. Several sources say the aerosols from Pinatubo were essentially gone in three years. Cooling was cited at about half a degree centigrade. But short lived. Obviously, if you got a bigger volcano, it would have more impact. | |
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My Car: 2001 Prius Package: Pioneer #1 Nominated 0 Times in 0 Posts TOTM Awards: 0 Friends: 5 | A 'nonstandard' view of lighning production by volcanic erutions: Volcanic Lightning The CO2 associated with volcanic eruptions is the 'warming agent'. Suspended ash has an opposing effect, but does not persist for long in the troposphere. Really powerful erupttions can inject ash (and, importantly, SO2) into the stratosphere. Those can cool the earth for 1 to a few years. edit: If not clear fromAlric's figure, the Pinatubo eruption of interest was 1991. El Chinchon was 1982. Both 'did' the stratosphere, but Mt. St. Helens did not. That one sort of squirted sideways. Last edited by tochatihu; 05-09-2008 at 11:35 PM. |
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My Car: 2001 Prius Package: Pioneer #1 Nominated 0 Times in 0 Posts TOTM Awards: 0 Friends: 5 | Sure it was big Tripp, but not a stratosphere punch. Instead the ash killed a lot of car engines. Y'all know to not drive through volcanic ash, right? Pointy little particles... |
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My Car: 2005 Prius Package: #3 Nominated 0 Times in 0 Posts TOTM Awards: 0 Friends: 2 | True...true. But you're the one who said it "squirted". I just put a magnitude on the squirting. |
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