{"id":12480,"date":"2010-11-06T07:44:23","date_gmt":"2010-11-06T13:44:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rankexploits.com\/musings\/?p=12480"},"modified":"2010-11-06T07:44:23","modified_gmt":"2010-11-06T13:44:23","slug":"mount-merapi-volcano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rankexploits.com\/musings\/2010\/mount-merapi-volcano\/","title":{"rendered":"Mount Merapi Volcano"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mount Merapi is erupting violently. <a href=\"http:\/\/wattsupwiththat.com\/2010\/11\/05\/indonesian-volcano-eruptions-increasing\/\">WUWT<\/a> reported this to their readers, providing information from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.volcano.si.edu\/reports\/usgs\/#merapi\">The Global Volcanism Program<\/a>.  Because this is a climate blog, and we bet on monthly temperature anomalies, one question is: How likely is this to induce global cooling?  <\/p>\n<p>Well, I don&#8217;t know. I know the latitude of the volcano and the amount of material vaulted into the stratosphere matter.  So, I googled a bit to read whether any news reports discuss the possibility of global cooling, mention &#8220;stratosphere&#8221;.  I found some speculation mentioning the &#8220;ring of fire&#8221;, Tambora&#8217;s 1815 eruption and other factors. However, direct discussions of the current Merapi eruption inducing global cooling infrequent. <\/p>\n<p>Those I found include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.spokesman.com\/stories\/2010\/nov\/04\/recent-volcanic-activity-has-scientists-thinking\/\">Recent volcanic activity has scientists thinking<\/a><br \/>\n<blockquote><p>Over the next few months, there may be some minor cooling in these localized areas due to the dust and ash. However, in order for significant cooling of the Earth\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s temperature, we would have to see an eruption that sends the dust and ash 70,000 to 80,000 feet.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/sify.com\/news\/volcanic-eruptions-affect-rainfall-over-asian-region-news-international-klfmObgfjgg.html\">Volcanic eruptions affect rainfall over Asian region<\/a><br \/>\n<blockquote><p>Not all eruptions have that effect, however. For instance, the continuing eruption of Indonesia&#8217;s Merapi this fall has killed dozens, but this latest episode is probably not big enough by itself to effect large-scale weather changes, scientists believe. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So far, I see no indications that people <I>expect<\/I> cooling based on eruptions so far. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mount Merapi is erupting violently. WUWT reported this to their readers, providing information from The Global Volcanism Program. Because this is a climate blog, and we bet on monthly temperature anomalies, one question is: How likely is this to induce global cooling? Well, I don&#8217;t know. I know the latitude of the volcano and the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/rankexploits.com\/musings\/2010\/mount-merapi-volcano\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mount Merapi Volcano<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-data-comparisons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rankexploits.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rankexploits.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rankexploits.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rankexploits.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rankexploits.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rankexploits.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12480\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rankexploits.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rankexploits.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rankexploits.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}