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We've just had a far reaching tsunami from the Hunga Tonga eruption and no one will explain why. That is a trust issue. Do they know how volcanos work or not?
by aaron695 5y ago
We've just had a far reaching tsunami from the Hunga Tonga eruption and no one will explain why.
That is a trust issue.
Do they know how volcanos work or not? Can they get that knowledge to the public or not?
The mathematics is high school level in many cases to disprove possible causes of the tsunami.
The reality is people do know how volcanoes work but the field is so full of charlatans that info can't get out.
This is every field of science now.
[And the idea the info doesn't need to get out quickly is BS, it shows structural problems in the field, on top of that in this case Tonga and aid orgs needs to know what might be possible in the next few weeks and the truth helps with that]
- jmeister 5y agoThis is interesting. Why is “Volcano Studies” full of charlatans? Is it politicized from implications for climate change?
- r_hoods_ghost 5y agoI don't understand what you mean by "We've just had a far reaching tsunami from the Hunga Tonga eruption and no one will explain why." Surely the answer is there was a huge eruption of the Hunga Tonga volcano that destroyed 1/3 of the island? What more do you want?