{"id":271392,"date":"2023-08-04T13:21:30","date_gmt":"2023-08-04T11:21:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=271392"},"modified":"2023-08-04T13:21:43","modified_gmt":"2023-08-04T11:21:43","slug":"what-nasa-and-science-admit-but-the-media-are-failing-to-report-about-our-current-heat-wave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=271392","title":{"rendered":"What NASA and Science Admit but the Media are Failing to Report About Our Current Heat Wave"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Editor\u2019s note:<\/em><\/strong> last week, Climate Realism also covered this event in a guest post from Ryan Maue, Ph.D.<\/a>, who also wrote about the effect of the eruption on Earth\u2019s atmosphere. This essay and the scientific study cited by it, further reinforce the likelihood that this event has contributed to recent, sustained, above average temperatures.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Guest essay by\u00a0Thomas Lifson\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0Originally published in\u00a0American Thinker<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The current heat wave is being relentlessly blamed on increasing levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, but there is a much more plausible explanation, one that is virtually endorsed by two of the world\u2019s leading scientific organizations. It turns out that levels of water vapor in the atmosphere have dramatically increased over the last year-and-a-half, and water vapor is well recognized as a greenhouse gas, whose heightened presence leads to higher temperatures, a mechanism that dwarfs any effect CO2 may have.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, why has atmospheric water vapor increased so dramatically? Because of a historic, gigantic volcanic eruption last year that I \u2013 probably along with you \u2014 had never heard of. The mass media ignored it because it took place 490 feet underwater in the South Pacific. Don\u2019t take it from me,\u00a0take it from NASA<\/a>\u00a0(and please do follow the link to see time lapse satellite imagery of the underwater eruption and subsequent plume of gasses and water injected into the atmosphere):<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Himawari-8 satellite images of the 15 January 2022 eruption of Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha\u02bbapai.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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When the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha\u2019apai volcano\u00a0erupted<\/a>\u00a0on 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\u00a0blasted an enormous plume of water vapor into Earth\u2019s stratosphere<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 enough to fill more than 58,000 Olympic-size swimming pools.\u00a0The sheer amount of water vapor could be enough to temporarily affect Earth\u2019s global average temperature.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve never seen anything like it,\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0said Luis Mill\u00e1n, an atmospheric scientist at NASA\u2019s 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\u2019s surface.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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