Volcanoes cool the tropics
Wednesday, January 7, 2009 - 06:42
in Earth & Climate
Climate researchers have shown that big volcanic eruptions over the past 450 years have temporarily cooled weather in the tropics—but suggest that such effects may have been masked in the 20th century by rising global temperatures. read more
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