We talk about saving the world, but it's just vanity gone mad

[venta]

So...
1. Choking plumes of ash in the sky, lots of sulphorous gas emitted.
2. Very little aviation in parts of Europe for 24 hours.

Is that a net gain or a net loss for climate change?

Comments

[venta.livejournal.com]

I admit I have absolutely no idea - I just filing them all under "crap in the sky". I wasn't assuming that because the volcanic stuff is naturally occuring it was necessarily non-harmful.

[zotz]

The tendency is for volcanic eruptions to cool the earth for a while after. They tend to reflect sunlight rather than absorb reemitted heat.

This can cause its own problems, of course.

[drdoug.livejournal.com]

Indeed - some of the wackier geo-engineering solutions to climate change involve dumping lots of sulphates in the stratosphere (IMO a pretty bad plan) or tickling volcanoes to get them to erupt a lot (IMO a staggeringly bad plan, especially when done with nukes).

[feanelwa.livejournal.com]

Mmm, acid rain.