NATION & WORLD Volcanoes partly explain warming hiatus, study - TopicsExpress



          

NATION & WORLD Volcanoes partly explain warming hiatus, study says OSLO — Small volcanic eruptions help explain a hiatus in global warming this century by dimming sunlight and offsetting a rise in emissions of heat-trapping gases to record highs, a study showed on Sunday. Eruptions of at least 17 volcanoes since 2000, including Nabro in Eritrea, Kasatochi in Alaska and Merapi in Indonesia, ejected sulfur whose sun-blocking effect had been largely ignored until now by climate scientists, it said.
Posted on: Tue, 25 Feb 2014 13:54:01 +0000

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