Prediction: Iceland Volcano will "prove" Climate Change a hoax.

[edhopper]

The title is meant to be sarcastic.
The volcanic eruption could well cause temperatures this summer to be cooler than normal.
If this happens, you can be sure the Climate Change deniers will all say this "proves" the Earth is not warming.
Will the media have the balls to just report they are flat out wrong?

[marmar]

1. I wouldn't be surprised. It will be a popular meme with the "Men Rode Dinosaurs" crowd

nt

[edhopper]

3. Unfortunately

the MSM gives too much airtime to the deniers. Even though they are just anti science luddites.

[AnArmyVeteran]

7. Marmar, are you saying the Flinstones wasn't a documentary??? How dare you!

Fred & Barney rode dinos...

[alphafemale]

2. I predict spectacular sunsets. nt

[hedgehog]

4. Given the marvelous and unusual Spring we've had here in

Upstate Central new york, i was getting nervous that we were facing a scorcher of a summer. Maybe Gaia is giving us a break while we try to get our act together!

[Toots]

5. I think things are escalating to a point where this eruption will have zero effect.

The more the reflective ice caps shrink, and the methane emissions from thawing perma frost build, the rising of world temperatures will only escalate, and this eruption won't make any noticeable impact. Things are beginning to spiral out of any control we may have thought we somehow had.

[Gman]

6. I said the same thing here yesterday

If the volcano in Iceland continues to blow ash into the stratosphere for a significant amount of time the natural thing to happen is a cooling of the climate. It's happened several times in history. Most notably, the year without a summer in 1816 was caused by a volcano eruption in Indonesia. Hundreds froze to death in Europe and crops failed all over the world.

Another example is Krakatoa. The explosion of Krakatoa in 1883 dropped global temps 1.2C in the year following the explosion

This is likely not a repeat of 1815 or 1883, but the effects of a volcano explosion has happened at least once that I remember and was affected by. I believe it was in 1983 that a volcano erupted in Mexico. We had volcanic ash on our cars that year. I remember hearing not to wipe it off with your hands as it would scar the paint on your car. The winter of 83-84 was brutal. It got down to near zero in December of 83. The winter of 84-85 was just as bad. It was an El Nino year and the San Antonio area had 13" of snow in January 85.

So, if the Iceland volcano produces a mini-ice age as the Mexico volcano did, or worse as in 1816 or 1883, the global warming deniers will capitalize on it to the fullest extent possible. If it gets cold quickly this fall, it may even be an issue in November because of Cap and Trade votes.

The Iceland eruption looks fairly powerful. We'll see what happens.

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