View Single Post
  #921  
Old April 25th 05, 10:11 AM
Fred J. McCall
external usenet poster
 
Posts: n/a
Default

"Ralph Nesbitt" wrote:

:A number of volcanic eruptions will result in a large quantity of material
:in the atmosphere. This material will reflect some energy from the sun back
:into space resulting in a global reduction of temperature. Essentially the
:same process referred to as "Nuclear Winter" except with a natural
:initiation process instead of "Nuclear Doomsday".

'Nuclear Winter', of course, being essentially a fraud (the numbers
used were fudged by an order of magnitude to make it come out the way
the proponents wanted it to).

Given that, it's going to take a hell of a lot of volcanoes to get a
change of more than a degree or two lasting more than a year or two
(which I think is pretty much the record for volcanic effects to
date).


--
"Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the
truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong."
-- Thomas Jefferson