Most #volcanoes warm the #atmosphere with SO2

But the 2022 Hunga #Tonga eruption was unique

Deep enough for sea water to penetrate, but shallow enough for the explosion to push water into the *mesosphere* 🤯

The water penetration removed most of the SO2, and the water is also still up there in the #stratosphere, *cooling* us

Meaning:

#GlobalWarming should be even worse than it already is, and could rebound to such as the high water veil dissipates

indiandefencereview.com/hunga-…

#ClimateCrisis

Tonga's Volcanic Eruption Hit the Edge of Space. Then the Atmosphere Froze, and It Hasn't

When the Hunga Tonga volcano erupted two years ago, scientists expected the usual pattern: ash, sulfur, temporary cooling at ground level. What they got instead broke every rule in the textbook.

^{Evelyn Hart (Indian Defence Review)}