Saturday Volcanoes!

http://scienceblog.com/60741/volcano-aerosols-not-pollutants-tamped-down-recent-earth-warming/
Volcanoes are spewing sulfur dioxide, and while that stuff stinks, its actually helping the earth not warm as much as expected from global warming. This is not going to stop the warming effect of greenhouse gases from humans, but it is interesting that scientists were previously ignoring something as small as volcano eruptions in the total global climate calculations. Science brings us so many wonders of knowledge. Science has taught us that everything is interconnected literally through advanced physics and the climate everywhere shows this in its reactions to what is going on. I read a study once where Friday traffic in highly populated areas increase the chance of Sunday and Monday rain because of the pollutants in the air. That is local climate change. If traffic problems can change the weather, then I would think even small volcanic eruptions  could change the weather. Obviously most of us remember the large volcanic change to the weather caused by the eruption in Iceland a few years ago. As much as I understand the need to get rid of small factors and coefficients in large mathematics, some times those small factors can drastically change the mathematics. I love how many science problems come down to the mathematical principles or statistics in order to make sense.

The Climate Challenge

http://scienceblogs.com/significantfigures/index.php/2013/02/20/climate-change-snow-and-ice-and-water-resources/

I think this article is very good in its description of some of the changes happening with climate change in a short article. I think however that articles like this do not do enough to talk about the opportunities of climate change. I am not talking about pool contractors making a fortune in coming years in temperate zones because of increasing heat or whatever, but the opportunities to create new technology and reuse the resources we have better. Necessity is the mother of invention, correct? Humanity has a lot to invent soon. Otherwise I am going to cry every year when I cannot dream of a white winter because such things no longer exist. I love my soft snow and my blowing snow and my crunchy snow and my dense snow which never seems to go away despite warm days. I like my hot summer days as well, but I love snow. Granted, I am in no position to talk about making new things. I can barely keep up with my own work, let alone playing with ideas for new inventions. But imagine a world in which we could reallocate money so that education and welfare could be better funded and managed, then people could be challenged to be creative and work together. I guess that is really what is missing. The challenge. People are out there thinking and commenting on what is going on in the world. People are having 'parking lot' meetings behind the backs of all the people we think should be taking care of issues and we are judging how they are doing without necessarily helping. We need to help each other. We need to challenge everyone to share their vision and their voice. Perhaps one person cannot afford to build something which they have dreamed, but someone else doesn't have a dream but the time and resources. Matching them up might be hard, but it would be even harder if no one shares their positions. I have never worked in a lab and I have never worked with other people's ideas in building, however it does seem to me that we could help each other out. Who would we give these ideas to? Colleges? Corporations? Anyone know? More importantly, what are your ideas?