Volcanic change is destroying the planet: tax volcanoes
Tom KirkmanIndependent Project Manager
Volcanic Change is destroying the planet.
Clearly, a Volcano Tax is urgently needed, to keep new volcano growth below 1.5% by 2050.
Oh, and censorship, to keep volcano deniers from spoiling the eruption science.
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“A whole new island pushed to the ocean surface off the coast of Japan has been growing since its birth.
The tiny island—named Niijima, or “new island” in Japanese, popped up just off the southern shores of Iwo Jima in late October, and can be seen in NASA images to have gained in size in the weeks since.
A new image of the island was snapped by the European Space Agency’s Copernicus Sentinel-2 satellite on November 27, showing that the volcanic activity beneath the Earth’s crust is still bubbling away.
The island was initially spotted from space by the NASA/U.S. Geological Survey satellite Landsat-9 on November 3, in the wake of an undersea volcano that started erupting at the end of October.
The island is situated about a mile off the coast of Iwo Jima, which itself is about 750 miles south of Tokyo.
As the undersea volcano erupted, hot magma and rock were flung up onto the seafloor, building up into the new island, which burst forth from the waves surrounded by floating rocks of porous volcanic pumice.
“On October 30, 2023, from around 12:20-12:35, an underwater eruption off the coast of Iwo Jima was observed from a Mainichi Shimbun aircraft,” reads a translated statement from The University of Tokyo.
“Immediately north of the eruption site, a new island with a diameter of approximately 100m was formed, consisting mainly of rock blocks, but no clear crater topography was observed on the surface,” it says, before going on to observe that the island’s concentric structure, floating pumice and discolored seawater indicate a magma eruption.
“Based on the observation of the formation of Niijima and the spread of pumice, it was estimated that the eruption had begun recently, but according to the Japan Meteorological Agency, the eruption appears to have started on October 21, 2023,” the statement says. …”