So, all of that volcanic ash will mean cooler temps in that area this winter? The polar bears will be so pleased-and Al Gore and the WWF will be saddened.
Don’t tell anyone, but, could it be that mother nature is responsible for global warming? Nay, no eevil conservatives to blame for something perceived as bad...
Maybe a little. The main longer-term cooling effect is from SO2 aerosols, and though these are impressive eruptions, most of the SO2 is going south and west. Unless there’s a LOT of ash (like Krakatoa), the cooling effects of the direct sun blockage don’t last long because the ash settles out fast. Even the biggest eruption on record, Tambora in 1815, caused one notably cool year subsequently (colloquially called “eighteen-hunderd and froze-to-death”; including frosts in New England in August).