Hunga Volcano Eruption Confuses Climate Change Alarmists

To be blunt, people who insist that we are all doomed because climate change is an existential threat are hard to take seriously. There have been many extinction predictions which have failed spectacularly. Further, the secular science industry has a history of making pronouncements on things they do not fully understand.

For example, secularists did not understand DNA, so they assumed certain areas were "junk." Creationists disagreed and were vindicated. Climate is a tricky thing, and those tinhorns famously ignore pertinent data. Also, scientists are learning that they need to be learning.

Illustration of Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai volcano eruption. Yunqian Zhu, NOAA  CIRES (usage does not imply endorsement)

Biblical creationists believe that God keeps his promises and that humans are not going to burn up the world he has given us to care for. For the most part, climate scientists are evolutionists (including geologically) and believe in uniformitarianism (gradual processes over huge amounts of time). Secularists frequently act in haste.

Volcanoes have not signed any accords on climate change. They proceed to belch out huge amounts of greenhouse gasses and particles without so much as a "by your leave." The results of eruptions from volcanoes on land seems to be reasonably well understood, but those under the sea are an entirely different kettle of fish — their effects are more complex.

Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai volcano erupted in 2022. Predictions were made. Alarms were sounded about global warming. Three years later, the most dramatic thing of all occurred: not much. All that screaming and shouting for this leftist cause was for nothing and the Creator is still on the throne. The volcano is yet another reminder that climate change folks need to do careful research instead of sounding hubris-riddled alarms.

Keep in mind that arrogantly messing with things they do not understand can be extremely harmful; those silly Brits want to dim the sun! I hope that last link is outdated soon.

In an explosive admission, atmospheric scientists concede that climate predictions failed for the 2022 eruption of the underwater Hunga Tonga volcano. 

In a recent article published in Nature Communications: Earth and Environment, atmospheric scientists explained that the 2022 eruption caused massive “unprecedented” outbursts of water vapor – a greenhouse gas, that led to several researchers in the months following the eruption publishing predictions of such significant warming that was thought to result in “potentially push[ing] temperatures beyond the 1.5 °C threshold of the Paris Climate Accord”. Bolstering this hypothesis, the authors noted that there was only “limited sulfur dioxide”, which was thought to reduce the normal counteractive cooling effect of eruptions.

The rest of this hot topic is found at "Confusion Erupts over the Hunga Volcano’s Net Climate Cooling Effect."