Liu, Fei, Chen Xing, Jinbao Li, Bin Wang, Jing Chai, Chaochao Gao, Gang Huang, Jian Liu, and Deliang Chen. 2020: “Could the Recent Taal Volcano Eruption Trigger an El Niño and Lead to Eurasian Warming?” Advances in Atmospheric Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00376-020-2041-z. (in press)

"The Taal Volcano in Luzon is one of the most active and dangerous volcanoes of the Philippines. A recent eruption occurred on 12 January 2020 (Fig. 1a), and this volcano is still active with the occurrence of volcanic earthquakes. The eruption has become a deep concern worldwide, not only for its damage on local society, but also for potential hazardous consequences on the Earth’s climate and environment."

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Pinke, Z.; Pow, S.; Kern, Z. (2019): Volcanic mega-eruptions may trigger major cholera outbreaks. In Clim. Res. 79 (2), pp. 151–162. DOI: 10.3354/cr01587.

"Reviewing the results of environmental epidemiology, post-volcanic climatology, and environmental history, we focused exclusively on volcanic eruption-ENSO and ENSO-cholera connections in order to establish a hypothesis that large tropical and Northern Hemisphere volcanic eruptions trigger an environmentally driven cascade process via post-volcanic ENSO anomalies. This cascade process has tended historically to lead to cholera outbreaks in Bengal (i.e. the Ganges-Brahmaputra delta region of modern India and Bangladesh)."

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"In truth, we already know the action needed to reduce man-made climate change: a rapid reduction in greenhouse gas emissions, replacing fossil fuels with renewable energy. According to the recent Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change (IPCC) report, the world has just 12 years in which to cut emissions by half, and 32 years (by 2050) to get net emissions down to zero."

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"Scientists plan to mimic the effects of a massive volcanic eruption in a bid to tackle global warming. Plans to geoengineer the atmosphere by blocking out sunlight have been floated before, but an experiment launched next year by Harvard researchers will be the first to test the theory in the stratosphere."

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