Man erupting volcanoes to control climate change!?

Here is a quote

"The Lessons of Tambora

All the big volcanic eruptions — Tambora, Krakatau, Pinatubo — have ended up cooling the Earth, causing temperatures to drop.

And that, Sigurdsson says, has some people thinking about replicating the Tambora effect in an effort to slow global warming.

"People have proposed that we induce artificial volcanoes by bringing sulfur up into the stratosphere to produce this effect," Sigurdsson says.

But, he warns, "Do you want to counter one pollutant with another one? I don't think so. But that's been proposed."

Still, Sigurdsson thinks that lessons from eruptions like Tambora can be applied to models used to study global climate change.

Global warming is viewed by many as the most pressing, most dangerous threat. But Sigurdsson warns that catastrophic climate change might come from an unexpected, yet familiar, direction.

"Somewhere on the Earth, with[in] the next 1,000 years, there will be a comparable eruption. And we'd better be aware of the consequences," he says.

He notes that another giant volcanic blast would release large amounts of gases, creating interference in the atmosphere that could cause major disruptions in telecommunications and aviation."

From this link

www.npr.org...

By this professor

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at this University

www.uri.edu...

Anybody thinking what I am?? It doesn't bear thinking about.....conspirators can have a field day with this...me included, because let's face it....it is possible. Just think of the latest two huge eruptions in Cordon Caulle, and Nabro in Eritrea...they are still going on! Cordon Caulle could be a VEI4!

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Jane

A VEI4 is to small to do anything to effect the climate

You need a a long term eruption of a VEI6or above to to start affecting the climate. or a couple VEI5s

They also need to be high in Tephra Ash and high in gaseous sulfur compounds, chiefly sulfur dioxide,

in the last 100 years we have had only one Pinatubo.

Since 1000 AD

* Pinatubo, island of Luzon, Philippines; 1991, Jun 15; VEI 6; 6 to 16 cubic kilometers (1.4 to 3.8 cu mi) of tephra an estimated 20 million tons of sulfur dioxide were emitted
* Novarupta, Alaska Peninsula; 1912, Jun 6; VEI 6; 13 to 15 cubic kilometers (3.1 to 3.6 cu mi) of lava
* Santa Maria, Guatemala; 1902, Oct 24; VEI 6; 20 cubic kilometres (4.8 cu mi) of tephra
* Krakatoa, Indonesia; 1883, August 26–27; VEI 6; 21 cubic kilometres (5.0 cu mi) of tephra
* Mount Tambora, Lesser Sunda Islands, Indonesia; 1815, Apr 10; VEI 7; 150 cubic kilometres (36 cu mi) of tephra;[5] an estimated 200 million tons of sulfur dioxide were emitted, produced the "Year Without a Summer"
* Grímsvötn, Northeastern Iceland; 1783–1785; Laki; 1783–1784; VEI 6; 14 cubic kilometers of lava, an estimated 120 million tons of sulfur dioxide were emitted, produced a Volcanic winter, 1783, on the North Hemisphere.
* Long Island (Papua New Guinea), Northeast of New Guinea; 1660 ±20; VEI 6; 30 cubic kilometers (7.2 cu mi) of tephra.
* Kolumbo, Santorini, Greece; 1650, Sep 27; VEI 6; 60 cubic kilometers (14.4 cu mi) of tephra.
* Huaynaputina, Peru; 1600, Feb 19; VEI 6; 30 cubic kilometres (7.2 cu mi) of tephra.
* Billy Mitchell, Bougainville Island, Papua New Guinea; 1580 ±20; VEI 6; 14 cubic kilometres (3.4 cu mi) of tephra.
* Bárðarbunga, Northeastern Iceland; 1477; VEI 6; 10 cubic kilometres (2.4 cu mi) of tephra.
* 1452-53 ice core event, New Hebrides arc, Vanuatu; location of this eruption in the South Pacific is uncertain; only pyroclastic flows are found at Kuwae; 36 to 96 cubic kilometers (8.6 to 23.0 cu mi) of tephra; 175-700 million tons of sulfuric acid.
* Quilotoa, Ecuador; 1280(?); VEI 6; 21 cubic kilometres (5.0 cu mi) of tephra.
* 1258 ice core event, tropics; 200 to 800 cubic kilometers (48.0 to 191.9 cu mi) of tephra.

Interesting and I understand your point. However what about the cumulative effect of many volcanoes spewing at the same time?

Rainbows
Jane

Originally posted by ANNED
A VEI4 is to small to do anything to effect the climate

You need a a long term eruption of a VEI6or above to to start affecting the climate. or a couple VEI5s

They also need to be high in Tephra Ash and high in gaseous sulfur compounds, chiefly sulfur dioxide,

in the last 100 years we have had only one Pinatubo.

Also needs to be as close to the equator as possible, so that the ash and sulphates can spread around the whole planet (as Pinatubo did). Somewhere like Chile or Iceland, for example, would not work on a global scale.


Interesting idea though - induce a VEI6 or VEI7 in Indonesia every few years and keep global warming down ...... And give everyone pretty sunsets to boot