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How a Volcano Eruption Wiped Away Summer (Tambora)
NPR ^
| 10-22-2007
| Michael Sullivan
Posted on 10/26/2007 11:07:21 AM PDT by blam
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To: blam
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posted on
10/26/2007 12:21:18 PM PDT
by
TYVets
(God so loved the world he didn't send a committee)
To: Red Badger
One of the noxious volcanoes in the early 1980s created a maintenance headache for the airlines.
The large amount of sulfur thrown into the upper atmosphere created a lot of sulphuric acid that was scoring the windows on passenger jets, and customers were complaining about it.
They had to shorten the window polishing cycle.
Probably painting, too.
To: Red Badger
Let me get this straight. Volcanoes release sulfur, a pollutant, into the atmosphere, it reflects sunlight into space, thus cooling the planet. Then why are we removing sulfur from our fuels?........
Any sulfur released from the surface never makes it to the upper atmosphere to form sulfuric acid and block sunlight. It's just a pollutant.
Ozone is similar-ozone in the upper atmosphere blocks UV, making life possible, but Ozone at the surface is an irritating pollutant.
To: Red Badger
Volcanoes release sulfur, a pollutant, into the atmosphere, it reflects sunlight into space, thus cooling the planet. Then why are we removing sulfur from our fuels?Lissen Badger, we don't pay you to think. This kind of talk will earn you a bunk in the Hillary-Gore Re-Education Center after the election.
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posted on
10/26/2007 12:39:38 PM PDT
by
Zerodown
(Draft Petraeus. Or how about Pace? What do you say we win this one?)
To: Strategerist
Any sulfur released from the surface never makes it to the upper atmosphere to form sulfuric acid and block sunlight. It's just a pollutant. Ozone is similar-ozone in the upper atmosphere blocks UV, making life possible, but Ozone at the surface is an irritating pollutant.Makes you wonder then how Chloroflourocarbons (CFC) get out of air conditioner units and manage to float up into the ozone layer. Are they somehow lighter than air, despite the enormous number of atoms in each molecule?
To: blam
There was an article some months ago about during this dreary summer the book Frankenstein was written.
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posted on
10/26/2007 1:17:59 PM PDT
by
VA Voter
To: Doomonyou; Malsua
"You are correct, Yellowstone was the mother of all eruptions." I thought we we talking only during human history. (?) Yellowstone last erupted 640,000 years ago.
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posted on
10/26/2007 1:38:52 PM PDT
by
blam
(Secure the border and enforce the law)
To: VA Voter
"There was an article some months ago about during this dreary summer the book Frankenstein was written." Yup. I saw that on TV too.
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posted on
10/26/2007 1:44:14 PM PDT
by
blam
(Secure the border and enforce the law)
To: Malsua
He meant the largest in historical times. I’m not sure how it compared with Santorini (Thera) although that is a far closer comparison than Krakatoa, and must have had far greater effect on history than Tambora. There must have been old people who experienced both Tambora and Krakatoa, but have you ever read of a personal comparison? Tambora was virtually lost to history within a generation, something almost as impressive as its size. The mid-Yellowstone sized Toba was pre-historical (I don’t think even the dream times go back quite that far) and nearly prevented history by wiping us out.
To: 75thOVI; AFPhys; Alice in Wonderland; AndrewC; aristotleman; Avoiding_Sulla; BenLurkin; Berosus; ...
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posted on
10/26/2007 11:13:36 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
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To: blam; StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 1ofmanyfree; 24Karet; 3AngelaD; 49th; ...
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posted on
10/26/2007 11:15:45 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
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To: blam
Take a good look at that guy’s picture. Notice the strange way his cloths bunch and bulge?
I wonder if he has his Robe of Warm-mongering hidden underneath? He’s probably an acolyte of the Alar Goracle. Or maybe even one of his Profits of Doomination.
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posted on
10/26/2007 11:54:19 PM PDT
by
Grimmy
(equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
To: Doomonyou
I believe Toba was bigger. It cooled the Earth by 10 degrees celcius for almost 1,000 years.
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posted on
10/27/2007 12:41:47 AM PDT
by
djf
(Send Fred some bread! Not a whole loaf, a slice or two will do!)
To: djf
Between the volcanos, calderas, and asteroid impacts, we are darn lucky that humans even exist on this planet, and have lasted this long. (How long? It’s a hard question to answer without provoking needless argument)
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posted on
10/27/2007 1:00:23 AM PDT
by
UCANSEE2
(- Attention all planets of the solar Federation--Secret plan codeword: Banana)
To: SunkenCiv
Yes, I’ve heard of this eruption. It made me call this year “the year without a fall,” because it was unseasonably hot here in Kentucky until this week. Don’t worry, I didn’t blame it on global warming.
But now that Joe Biden’s in the news again, I’m concerned. We all know how much hot air he produces!
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posted on
10/27/2007 4:48:07 AM PDT
by
Berosus
("The candidates that can't face Fox News can't face Al Qaeda."--Roger Ailes)
To: timer
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posted on
10/27/2007 10:20:47 AM PDT
by
investigateworld
( Abortion stops a beating heart.)
To: rlmorel
Currier and Ives were not British. They were American and thier artwork were American, not English scenes. See
here.
To: RSmithOpt
“OK...though rare, how about a 1 mile wide rock from outer space splashing into one of our oceans at 30,000 mph.???Itll still be global warming and Bushs fault.”
Funny that you mention outer space splashing some big pebbles...Someone’s deceased spouse told them in a dream recently to keep an eye on the constellation Pegasus.
To: djf
Yes, Toba was bigger. It nearly wiped out the human race, reduced the world population to ~70K, but that was before recorded history.
I wonder if it rained ash for 40 days and 40 nights...
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posted on
10/28/2007 5:56:33 AM PDT
by
null and void
(Franz Kafka would have killed himself in despair if he lived in the world we inhabit today.)
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