Meet The Real Life Cause of Climate Change
I give to you Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai
Yes, I know I haven’t been writing a lot lately, but I have been reading. And reading stirs up the writer in me. This post by Jeff Childers addresses the reason for the floods, the reason for the hot humid weather and the reason it is being ignored.
Pass this around to everyone you know. The information in this article needs to be read by everyone who is wondering…WHAT REALLY IS GOING ON???
Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai
“Unprecedented” is accurate but doesn’t do it justice. Here’s how the rocket-slash-climate experts at NASA described Hunga Tonda as one of the most dramatic events in modern history:
When the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai volcano erupted on Jan. 15, it sent a tsunami racing around the world and set off a sonic boom that circled the globe twice. The underwater eruption in the South Pacific Ocean also blasted an enormous plume of water vapor into Earth’s stratosphere – enough to fill more than 58,000 Olympic-size swimming pools. The sheer amount of water vapor could be enough to temporarily affect Earth’s global average temperature.
The not only injected ash into the stratosphere but also large amounts of water vapor, breaking all records for direct injection of water vapor, by a volcano or otherwise, in the satellite era. …The excess water vapor injected by the Tonga volcano … could remain in the stratosphere for several years. This extra water vapor could influence atmospheric chemistry, boosting certain chemical reactions that could temporarily worsen depletion of the ozone layer. It could also influence surface temperatures … since water vapor traps heat.
“We’ve never seen anything like it,” said Luis Millán, an atmospheric scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California.
Over the next year it would turn out that NASA badly underestimated the amount of water Hunga Tonga vaporized into the atmosphere. Current estimates are three times higher than the original: scientists now think it was closer to 150,000 metric tons, or 40 trillion gallons, of super-heated water instantly injected into the atmosphere. Talk about a greenhouse. Water vapor — humidity — is a much more effective greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide.
Read the entirety of Jeff’s post here:
Thanks for cross posting C& C
I had missed it last week.
God bless the truth tellers.
Thinking that human action can actually change the climate is very childish thinking, when you consider all of the gigantic natural forces at work.