{"id":534541,"date":"2010-04-19T08:05:04","date_gmt":"2010-04-19T12:05:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.earthportal.org\/news\/?p=3296"},"modified":"2010-04-19T08:05:04","modified_gmt":"2010-04-19T12:05:04","slug":"icelandic-volcano-could-cool-earth-make-acid-rain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/534541","title":{"rendered":"Icelandic volcano could cool Earth, make acid rain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/36556083\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/msnbcmedia4.msn.com\/j\/MSNBC\/Components\/Photo\/_new\/100415_volcanoclimate.hlarge.jpg\" width=\"328\" align=\"right\" height=\"216\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/eenews.net\/climatewire\/2010\/04\/16\/8\/\" >ClimateWire<\/a>: An actively erupting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eoearth.org\/article\/Volcano\">volcano<\/a> in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eoearth.org\/article\/Iceland_boreal_birch_forests_and_alpine_tundra\">Iceland<\/a> has the potential to lower  the Earth&#8217;s temperatures, cause <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eoearth.org\/article\/Acid_rain\">acid rain<\/a> and damage the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eoearth.org\/article\/Ozone\">ozone layer<\/a>.  But the Eyjafjallajokull volcano isn&#8217;t at that stage, at least not yet.<\/p>\n<p>The Iceland eruption launched a cloud with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eoearth.org\/article\/Sulfur_dioxide\">sulfur dioxide<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eoearth.org\/article\/Carbon_dioxide\">carbon  dioxide<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eoearth.org\/article\/Public_Health_Statement_for_Fluorides,_Hydrogen_Fluoride,_and_Fluorine\">hydrogen fluoride<\/a> 7 miles high. It has shut down air traffic  across northern Europe and dropped ash on the surrounding area,  prompting residents to wear dust masks when they go outside. Falling ash  can also pollute local water, damage vegetation and kill livestock.<\/p>\n<p>Sulfur emitted from volcanoes can react with the water in the air to  form sulfuric acid droplets that reflect sunlight and block some of the  rays. That can reduce temperatures for about a year until the droplets  fall out of the sky. The 1991 explosion of Mount Pinatubo in the  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eoearth.org\/article\/Energy_profile_of_Philippines\">Philippines<\/a> cooled the planet by 0.9 degree Fahrenheit.<\/p>\n<p>The intentional release of sulfur dioxide into the stratosphere has  been proposed as a possible geoengineering solution to curb <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eoearth.org\/article\/Global_warming\">global  warming<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/36556083\/ns\/us_news-environment\/\" >MSNBC<\/a>,  April 15). <strong>&#8211; JP<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"akst_link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.earthportal.org\/news\/?p=3296&amp;akst_action=share-this\"  title=\"E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc.\" id=\"akst_link_3296\" class=\"akst_share_link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Share This<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ClimateWire: An actively erupting volcano in Iceland has the potential to lower the Earth&#8217;s temperatures, cause acid rain and damage the ozone layer. But the Eyjafjallajokull volcano isn&#8217;t at that stage, at least not yet. The Iceland eruption launched a cloud with sulfur dioxide, carbon dioxide and hydrogen fluoride 7 miles high. It has shut [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4055,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-534541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4055"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=534541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534541\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=534541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=534541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=534541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}