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The Weekly Carboholic: Climate disruption will disrupt volcanism too

source: http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/2009/09/23/the-weekly-carboholic-climate-disrupts-volcanism...

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Nature News reported last week that vulcanologists have concluded that climate disruption will increase the number of volcanic eruptions. According to the article, the reason is that climate disruption is expected to reduce the amount of ice present atop volcanoes and thus reduce the amount of material keeping volcanoes from erupting.
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Last week, the EPA’s Office of the Inspector General found that approximately 11% of the standard gases for blends of SO2, CO2, and nitrous oxide (NO) they had purchased and had independently tested were different from the stated amount of gas by 3% or more when the acceptable range was within 2% of the stated amount.
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According to a NYTimes article, two German vessels, the Beluga Fraternity and Beluga Foresight, steamed north from South Korea and transited the Northeast Passage, also known as the Northern Sea Route. This route was largely ice free this year, and the two ice-hardened specialty cargo vessels took advantage of the clear waters to cut thousands of miles off the southern route via the Suez Canal.
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According to an investigative report in the UK’s Daily Mail, there is a massive fleet of idled shipping vessels anchored off the coast of Singapore and southern Malaysia. These ships, and others taken out of service around the world, represent 12% of the the entire global merchant marine fleet, sitting idle.

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2 comments // The Weekly Carboholic: Climate disruption will disrupt volcanism too

  • angliss
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      angliss  

    • The problem is that the kind of volcanism that changes with the seasons is the small stuff, not the really big eruptions that blast megatons of sulfur dioxide in to the stratosphere. And so the question is whether the increase will be the small eruptions that, comparably, occur all the time or the big eruptions that happen rarely, or both?

      Unfortunately, the article didn't say, and the scientists doing the research imply that they don't know either. Thus their call for more research in this area.

    • 2 years ago
  • masterzip
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      masterzip  

    • an increase in volcano activity may be just what the earth needs, as volcanologists know when there are massive eruptions, the earth goes through a "cooling" period as ash blocks out the suns rays....it also kills off a lot of living creatures,..but it is a step to fight global warming........

    • 2 years ago
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