FarmingMo - 1/24/2023 15:01
Did Mizzou Tiger write that article? The very last sentence is all I needed to read to know that whoever wrote that article has a tremendous bias or is clueless
The person writing the article definitely has a bullish biases. Not objective, but very subjective reporting. IMO, the results of the eruption won't have a serious crop production problems associated with it, certainly not to the extent of prices quoted.
"Prof Pasquale Sellitto from the Interuniversity Laboratory of Atmospheric Systems has also published separate research on the radiative impact of the Tonga eruption. He tells Carbon Brief that the work is “a very interesting extension of previous studies on the climate impact of this exceptional eruption”, adding that its results are “very reasonable”. However, he flags two areas where the study could be improved. Firstly, he says the paper assumes that water vapour injected into the atmosphere is “globally well mixed”, whereas in reality, the plume was “confined in the southern hemisphere”. Secondly, the paper omits the cooling impact of the sulphate aerosols injected into the atmosphere, stating that “the sulphur dioxide deposit is substantially smaller than the accompanying water vapour deposit”. However, Selitto says that “the Hunga Tonga perturbation of stratospheric aerosol is actually the largest since the Pinatubo eruption in 1991”.
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