John Lott's Website: NPR and CNN worry that Global Warming may have caused Iceland's Volcano!!!
Diana Rehm (NPR): We do wonder whether there's human involvement in all of these eruptions, earthquakes, storms -
Elise Labott (senior State Department producer for CNN): - and how much global warming has a role in it. You know we've seen a lot of wacky weather but that's just a microcosm for what's happening around the world and how much climate change is contributing to earthquakes and volcanic ash - it's a really good question.
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The journalists are breath takingly ignorant. This meme was repeated by Reuters and Scientific American, BTW. This is a rift eruption. It has absolutely zero to do with atmospheric events.
"Volcanic activity on the Earth is described by special annual indices available since 1500. These indices have been compared with annual sunspot numbers. Volcanic activity displays no 11-yr periodicity. Using 21-yr running averages a striking similarity between these two time series is clearly seen. Volcanic activity is generally lower in periods of prolonged maxima of solar activity and higher in periods of prolonged solar minima. There is also a similarity between the spectra of these two series in the long-period range. Main peaks are located in the same periods in both series (200-215 yr, 100-105 yr, 80-90 yr). The influence of volcanic activity on the climate is indubitable. Annual means of surface air temperature display similar long-term periodicity as the volcanic activity."
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2003ESASP.535..393S
http://www.spaceandscience.net/id16.html
See http://www.appinsys.com/globalwarming/RS_Iceland.htm for an examination of Iceland's climate (it was warmer in the 1930s) and volcanic activity. The Guardian claimed in 2000 that the main glacier would be gone in 5 years - but it is still there 10 years later.
Anonymous quoted:
"the influence of volcanic activity on climate is indubitable"
yes, but not the other way around !
In related news, journalists wonder if the moon is made of green cheese...
Sheeesh!
Cause and effect mean nothing to idiots. That is why they are idiots.
This is the same mental disorder that allows some "scientists" to look for "missing heat". And they mock us.
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