Watts Up With That? has the number of excuses at 52. The Hockey Schtick notes 66 excuses. At this point, do we even need to keep track? Warmists will continue to trot out excuse after excuse after excuse. That is, when they acknowledge that there is a pause, and that their computer models have failed 95% of the time.
(Watts Up With That?) Small volcanic eruptions partly explain ‘warming hiatus’
The “warming hiatus†that has occurred over the last 15 years has been partly caused by small volcanic eruptions.
Scientists have long known that volcanoes cool the atmosphere because of the sulfur dioxide that is expelled during eruptions. Droplets of sulfuric acid that form when the gas combines with oxygen in the upper atmosphere can persist for many months, reflecting sunlight away from Earth and lowering temperatures at the surface and in the lower atmosphere.
Previous research suggested that early 21st century eruptions might explain up to a third of the recent “warming hiatus.â€
New research available online in the journal Geophysical Research Letters (GRL) further identifies observational climate signals caused by recent volcanic activity. This new research complements an earlier GRL paper published in November, which relied on a combination of ground, air and satellite measurements, indicated that a series of small 21st century volcanic eruptions deflected substantially more solar radiation than previously estimated.
Anthony Watts has the links to those papers, so, you’ll have to head there to get them. But, hey, does anyone else find it interesting that the majority of excuses Blame Nature for the Pause/hiatus, while Mankind is Blamed for the warming since the end of the Little Ice Age?
Willis Eschenbach dives deeper into the papers, and one of the things he notes is that there really hasn’t been an increase in small volcanic eruptions.
