Tonga
When the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai volcano erupted on Jan. 15, it sent a tsunami racing around the world and set off a sonic boom that circled the globe twice. The underwater eruption in the South Pacific Ocean also blasted an enormous plume of water vapor into Earth’s stratosphere – enough to fill more than 58,000 Olympic-size swimming pools. The sheer amount of water vapor could be enough to temporarily affect Earth’s global average temperature.
“We’ve never seen anything like it,” said Luis Millán, an atmospheric scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California. He led a new study examining the amount of water vapor that the Tonga volcano injected into the stratosphere, the layer of the atmosphere between about 8 and 33 miles (12 and 53 kilometers) above Earth’s surface.
The Mediterranean
The Mediterranean was recently in the news because of the rapid warming of the water there. The report was that it is due to ‘man-made’ climate change. The original report came from the Guardian who I dare say likes to exaggerate when it comes to climate change. It says:
‘The Mediterranean sea is in a major marine heat wave, with the temperature of the sea surface in western parts of the Mediterranean 4-5C warmer than average. Temperatures have been above average for a long time since beginning of May with June the warmest ever recorded for large parts of the Mediterranean.’
Admittedly, the natural climate change, which I actually had predicted, here,
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makes it drier at the higher latitude, which means that there is more sunshine and more heat in the area. (Holiday tip: The Tiber in Rome is at its lowest point and you can now see the remains of a bridge in that river that was built in Roman times).
However, I very much doubt that this is the only reason for the warming of the water in the Mediterranean. Note that there are many active volcanoes in and around the boot of Italy, of which Etna and Stromboli were recently active (June 2022). Co-incidence? There are also many volcanoes in and around the Greek islands. The disappearance of The Minoan civilization is often associated with a massive eruption of a volcano in the Mediterranean that caused a tsunami burying Crete with water.
(There are some people like me who think that some of the ten plagues of Moses and the exodus of the Israelites from Egypt through the red sea had something to do with that particular eruption).
Canary Islands
If you look carefully at the area between the Canary Islands and the African continent (Picture 1), you will see that there is significant warming there of the waters. The eruption of the volcano on La Palma in 2021 attracted a lot of attention. Those doing the investigations, noted that “This eruption is interpreted as a very accelerated and energetic process”. In other words: A lot of energy being released…… see: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-21818-9
3) Thirdly, I ask your attention for this graph:
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