American Thinker "While the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai volcano, which erupted on January 15, may be causing a spike in temperatures, there’s nothing historic about what’s happening. The Earth has been this hot before…and hotter—and it wasn’t that long ago either.
"Before getting to historic hot spells, it’s worth noting that the volcano may not actually cause a big rise in global temperature over the long run. It’s true that the volcano’s eruption spewed a lot of water vapor into the atmosphere.
"However, recent eruptions have also demonstrated volcanoes’ planet-cooling powers. In 1991, when Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines blew its top, aerosols spewed by this mighty volcanic blast lowered global temperatures by about 1 degree Fahrenheit (0.6 degrees Celsius) for at least one year. Tonga expelled approximately 441,000 tons (400,000 metric tons) of sulfur dioxide, about 2 percent of the amount spewed by Mount Pinatubo during the 1991 eruption."
"Headlines from the 1930s bespeak incredible temperature spikes. Here are just some examples:
- 1933: West Australian Heat Wave - "Severest In History"
- 1933: Heat Waves, Floods, Droughts, Famines Plague China
- 1933: Spain's Heat Wave: 130 Degrees In Shade
- 1933: Heat Wave Causes New Jersey Road To "Explode"
- 1933: Hottest June In U.S. History - Heat Wave & Drought
- 1934: "Heat Wave In China Kills One In Every Thousand"
- 1934: Antarctic Has Incredible Heat Wave – 25 Degrees Over Zero
- 1934: World Wide Drought & Heat Causes Vast Majority of Alps' Glaciers To Melt
- 1934: Iowa Heat Wave In May - Pushes Temps Over 110 Degrees
- 1934: All 48 U.S. States Over 100 Degrees During June
- 1934: 14 Days of Above 100°F Temps Kill Over 600 Americans
"So, it’s always and often been hot. And sometimes it’s cold, which is also deadly. Even the leftist Lancet has admitted that “Cold caused 17 times more deaths than heat in the 13 countries studied.” . . .
What’s really important isn’t that the Earth has extremes of hot and cold. What’s important is that fossil fuel has enabled people to avoid the worst consequences of those extremes:
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