Eruptions of volcanoes like Tavurvur in Papa New Guinea in 2006 had a greater impact on the climate in the past 15 years than had previously been appreciated and may require climate models to be revised
Comment: That's an interesting twist on the facts. The earth is cooling because of increased volcano activity, and this is being presented as good news! We've said it before, and we'll say it again: there is NO global warming problem on Earth. It's a myth propagated by scientists and the PTB to distract the public from the reality of cosmic catastrophes and their role in global weather phenomenon. People ought to be concerned about global cooling, not happy about it "protecting" the Earth from nonexistent global warming.
Scientists have confirmed that droplets of sulphur-rich aerosols spewed into the upper atmosphere by volcanoes have been reflecting sunlight away from the Earth.
Until recently it was thought that only particularly large eruptions had any noticeable affect on the climate.
However, the new study has confirmed results from the end of last year that showed these small eruptions can have an accumulative impact on global temperature.
This could have helped decrease the global temperatures by between 0.05°C to 0.12°C over the past 15 years.
Since 1998, the warmest year on record, the steep increase in global temperatures seen during the 1990s has levelled off, failing to match computer model predictions for climate change.
This pause, or hiatus, has been blamed on weak solar activity and increased uptake of heat by the world's oceans.
This graph shows average land and ocean temperature anomalies between 1961 and 1990 around the world
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