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Old 08-13-2024, 12:43 PM
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I am sure you are going to include in your discussion the recent paper from Texas A&M University showing that the Tonga volcano, based on 2 years of follow up data did NOT raise the global temperature as it had been thought it might.

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The Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai (Hunga) submarine volcanic eruption on 15 January 2022, produced aerosol and water vapor plumes in the stratosphere. These plumes have persisted mostly in the Southern Hemisphere throughout 2022 and into 2023. Enhanced tropospheric warming due to the added stratospheric water vapor is offset by the larger stratospheric aerosol attenuation of solar radiation. Hunga induced circulation changes that reduce stratospheric ozone and lower temperatures also play a role in the net forcing. The change in the radiative flux would result in a very slight 2022/3 cooling in Southern Hemisphere. The Hunga climate forcing has decreased to near zero by the end of 2023.
Don't you hate it when your pet theory for global climate change and record heat gets shot down by science and ongoing data collection.
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