Not exact matches
Volcanic eruptions and impacts from celestial bodies, like asteroids, have a near instantaneous effect, but
very few of these one - time
events are of sufficient size to impact the global climate for more than a few years.
(For those «coming in in the middle» — assuming any such are still reading — this subthread began with a link I provided discussing the vulnerability our complex society bears WRT to
very large
volcanic eruptions, in the context of the robustness of some Stone Age populations who «thrived» during the
event — albeit at a considerable distance!)
When we tried to reconstruct past climate patterns we learned that there was this interesting relationship between past
very large
volcanic eruptions and the timing of some of the large El Nino
events in past centuries.
Events like seasons and volcanic eruptions all can cause the climate to respond very quickly to these e
Events like seasons and
volcanic eruptions all can cause the climate to respond
very quickly to these
eventsevents.
There's
very strong evidence for intense
volcanic activity associated with the North Atlantic Igneous Province (yes yet another Large Igneous Province associated with a warming
event) ocurring at exactly the time of the PETM, See:
I consider it as
very likely that the 20 year trends will still be statistically significant also in three, five or ten years from now, unless there is some strong
volcanic explosion that blows a lot of reflecting aerosols in the stratosphere causing a temporary temperature dip, or some other cause the effect of which is explainable within the framework of current knowledge about the climate system, but as
event not really predictable.
The secondary effects of all of the above are
very likely to bring on the biggest Earth quakes and largest
volcanic eruptions observed for 200 years, the trends of these
events have been rising since the early 1990s.