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Climate change may prevent volcanoes from cooling the planet
2016-11-16 13:00:00| LifeSciencesWorld
[NEWS] New UBC research shows that climate change may impede the cooling effect of volcanic eruptions. When an eruption is powerful enough, volcanoes spew sulfur gasses high into the atmosphere, reaching a layer called the stratosphere, about 10 to 15 kilometres above the Earth's surface. Here, gasses react with water to form aerosol particles that linger in the stratosphere for one or two years, reflecting sunlight and heat from the sun, and cooling the planet. On average, there…
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Massive volcanoes may have knocked Moons axis off kilter
2016-03-24 13:26:18| Extremetech
A new paper argues that massive volcanism on the moon may have actually tilted its axis millions of years ago. This axial tilt would have impacted the distribution of ice at the lunar north and south pole -- and we see evidence of unusual variation that persists to this day.
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UK might source renewable power from Icelands volcanoes within ten years
2015-10-29 01:00:00| Power Technology
UK Prime Minister David Cameron is expected to announce the start of a multi-billion project, in order to construct an electricity pipeline to derive renewable energy from Iceland's volcanoes into Britain.
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Volcanoes Cooled Earth in Past, Constrain Warming from Excess CO2
2015-07-09 16:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ClimateWire: A powerful blast of cosmic rayscarrying the energy of 167 megatons of TNTentered Earth from a star 1,200 years ago and filled the remote reaches of the Earth with beryllium, carbon isotopes and other elements. The cosmic event left its imprint in tree rings and ice cores, which are natural history books for times before the human era. And using it, scientists have resolved a long-standing argument on how the planet responds to volcanic eruptions. They have found that almost every major volcanic...
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Scott Walker Appointee Suggests Volcanoes Might Be Real Cause Of Global Warming
2015-04-09 14:42:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Huffington Post: Wisconsin, which has been in the news this week for voting to bar staff of the state public lands board from talking about climate change, is getting a new state official who is skeptical of human contribution to climate change. Gov. Scott Walker (R) recently appointed Mike Huebsch to the state Public Service Commission, and Huebsch was asked about his views on climate change during his confirmation hearing this week. The Public Service Commission oversees utility issues in the state, including...