Sentences with phrase «fewer big eruptions»
From 1910 to 1945, the mercury rose at a rate of 0.16 °C per decade, driven by vigorous solar activity, the initial rise in industrial greenhouse gases, and fewer big eruptions.
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«The ocean is a big place so it's pretty unlikely that you're going to have a situation where a ship haphazardly wanders over an eruption, but there are a few that have come close,» Tepp said.
Some researchers have proposed that Toba's eruption was big enough to cause a reverse greenhouse effect that cooled Earth for decades, leading to ecological disaster and widespread food shortages that only a few small communities were able to survive.
Putting my geologist's hat on, it is certainly plausable that (for instance) the passage of a low pressure system could bring forward an explosive volcanic eruption by a few hours; but extra precipitation reaching a magma chamber, or just lubricating faults around the chamber would be a bigger effect.