Topic: Thanks, volcanoes! Earth cooler than expected due to recent eruptions

[nincehelser]

"Minor volcanic eruptions substantially slowed Earth’s warming between 2000 and 2013, a new study suggests. The small particles, or aerosols, were spewed high into the atmosphere and scattered sunlight back into space, preventing the global average temperature from rising from 0.05°C to 0.12°C. That cooling effect represents between 25% and 50% of the expected temperature rise during that period because of rising atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases, the scientists say, so the finding helps explain the so-called hiatus in global warming over the last 15 years."

http://news.sciencemag.org/climate/2014/11/thanks-volcanoes-earth-cooler-expected-due-recent-eruptions

[ocala]

Devils advocate here.
Jeff Masters has other ideas.
October 2014 was the warmest October on record, and the year-to-date-period January - October was Earth's warmest such period since record keeping began in 1880, said NOAA's National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) on Thursday. NOAA also rated the past 12 months--November 2013 through October 2014--as the warmest consecutive 12-month period among all months since records began in 1880. "It is becoming pretty clear that 2014 will end up as the warmest year on record,"
http://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/comment.html?entrynum=2865

[WeatherHost]

And we ALL know the Earth began in 1880.

[W3DRM]

And we ALL know the Earth began in 1880.

And all these years I thought Columbus sailed the Atlantic in 1492... 

[Aardvark]

well, it is time to round up the virgins and bring them to the Volcano gods to appease them.  The problem is finding any.  (I know I am going to smoke another turd in hell for that one)

[W3DRM]

well, it is time to round up the virgins and bring them to the Volcano gods to appease them.  The problem is finding any.  (I know I am going to smoke another turd in hell for that one)

Well, Silversword might be able to help. He's in Maui and just may have a connection with Pele. Pele is the goddess of volcanoes...

[SlowModem]

The problem is finding any.

Huh?  There's volcanoes everywhere!   

[WeatherHost]

^^  Virgins, not volcanoes.

[SlowModem]

^^  Virgins, not volcanoes.