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Viking Chat => Off Topic => Topic started by: Ldr on March 15, 2024, 12:21:45 pm

Title: From the Guardian
Post by: Ldr on March 15, 2024, 12:21:45 pm
Guess our resident Guardian reader tends to cherry pick.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/mar/14/geoengineering-must-be-urgently-investigated-experts-say
Title: Re: From the Guardian
Post by: ncRover on March 15, 2024, 01:05:15 pm
They put legislation in to stop container ships emitting Sulphur Dioxide. A compound which reflects sunlight and therefore has a cooling effect. Hence why large VEI6/7 volcanic eruptions such as Tambora and Krakatoa caused cooling for a few years.
Title: Re: From the Guardian
Post by: Sprotyrover on March 15, 2024, 01:27:37 pm
Quote from: ncRover on March 15, 2024, 01:05:15 pm
They put legislation in to stop container ships emitting Sulphur Dioxide. A compound which reflects sunlight and therefore has a cooling effect. Hence why large VEI6/7 volcanic eruptions such as Tambora and Krakatoa caused cooling for a few years.
Nothing to do with the billions of tons of volcanic ash they spewed into the Atmosphere?
Title: Re: From the Guardian
Post by: Bristol Red Rover on March 15, 2024, 02:29:01 pm
No it's the sulphur dioxide effect. Same happened with less explosive eruptions, eg the worldwide effects of the Laki eruptions at the end of the 18th century in Iceland. Huge amount of deaths, starvation,  and arguably the trigger for such things as the French Revolution.