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Indonesia passes long-awaited law to tap power from volcanoes
2014-08-28 01:00:00| Power Technology
The Parliament of Indonesia has passed a law that will enable the country to tap the power of its volcanoes, as part of its efforts to strengthen the geothermal energy industry.
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What Icelands Volcanoes Can Teach Us about Climate
2014-08-23 16:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: Its not quite a sharknado, but the possible impending eruption of a mile-high volcano under Icelands largest glacier represents a fascinating example of a real-life natural disaster comboquite literally fire and ice. Seismologists have detected some 3,000 tremors in the vicinity of Bárarbunga since Saturday, a sign that the mountain might just be ready to blow. Four years ago, the eruption of Eyjafjallajokull, another ice-covered Icelandic volcano, disrupted air travel, caused billions of...
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Ice Cores Show Volcanoes Cooled Earth Less Than Estimated
2014-07-10 11:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LiveScience: Global cooling caused by some historic volcanic eruptions wasn't as extreme as climate scientists recently thought, according to newly revised ice core records from Antarctica. Volcanic eruptions blast sulfur-dioxide gas into the stratosphere, where it turns into tiny particles called sulfate aerosols that reflect the sun's energy and cool the Earth. Snow falling in Antarctica records the levels of sulfate in the air at the time, and it eventually becomes ice drilled by researchers in long, tubular...
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Hawaiian Volcano Observatory monitors volcanoes, earthquakes in Hawaii
2014-03-25 18:30:12| Airlines - Topix.net
Hawaii Volcanoes National Park Ranger Jeff Judd displays a ample of the 2,000-degree still semi-liquid motlen lava he grabbed with a pickax in this September 1987 photo.
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Volcanoes Partly to Blame for Global Warming 'Pause'
2014-02-23 19:07:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LiveScience: Cooling caused by volcanic eruptions accounts for 15 percent of the recent global warming "pause," the mismatch between actual warming and climate-model predictions, according to a new study. The slowdown in global warming, sometimes called a pause or hiatus, started in 1998, when Earth's average surface temperatures halted their feverish rise. The average rate of warming was 0.31 degrees Fahrenheit (0.17 degrees Celsius) per decade between 1970 and 1998, but dropped to 0.072 F (0.04 C) per decade...
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