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The Day an Underwater Volcano Almost Wiped Out a Nation
- giardini 3y ago"Talkin About Hunga Tonga": https://hwfo.substack.com/p/talkin-about-hunga-tonga https://hwfo.substack.com/p/talkin-about-hunga-tonga FTFA: "The authors project this one volcano produced a warming effect on the planet equal to about 5.2 years worth of total global carbon emissions in one go, and it’s going to be stuck up there for over half a decade. Let’s restate that to be perfectly clear. If you believe that CO2 is slowly warming the planet, then the net result of this one very unusual volcano will be to fast forward global warming five years, and keep us at that fast-forward location for between five and ten years, and then will slowly abate. But because 2023 internet life is a sea of culture war, that straightforward scientific conclusion has gotten churned into the modern media culture war engine, dragging the study’s authors into the milieu.
- gardenfelder 3y ago>The towering undersea volcano known as Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai had awakened, and on a balmy afternoon in January 2022 it began blasting its insides into the sky above this Pacific island chain with a force unmatched in recent history.