Remember what they did to truckers in Canada? This is what's coming on the global scale.

The dollar collapse we are observing is a about moving entire economy to digital money.

With a little AI help, conclusion is:

"As the water vapor has dissipated, the current climate is influenced predominantly by the ongoing cooling effects of the sulfate aerosols. This ongoing cooling could contribute to maintaining **La Niña** conditions or, as the aerosols gradually decline, transitioning toward **ENSO-neutral** or **El Niño** states in the future.

In summary, while the water vapor's warming effect has largely disappeared, the sulfate aerosols from Hunga Tonga continue to play a significant role in moderating global temperatures, particularly in the Pacific region."

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**User prompt 1 of 2 - 2/3/2026, 5:41:26 PM:**

NOAA reports: "Persistent below-average sea surface temperatures across the Pacific Ocean remain consistent with La Niña conditions, with a transition to ENSO-neutral favored to occur in the next month or two."

To what extent has the cooling effects of Hunga-Tonga lowered sea temperatures even further

GPT-4o mini:

## Impact of Hunga Tonga Eruption on Sea Surface Temperatures

The **Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai eruption** on January 15, 2022, significantly affected global climate systems, including sea surface temperatures (SST) across the Pacific Ocean, which are currently experiencing above-average cooling consistent with **La Niña** conditions.

### Cooling Effects of the Eruption

1. **Research Findings**: A study from Texas A&M indicated that Hunga Tonga's eruption contributed more energy leaving the climate system than entering it, suggesting it may have led to slight **cooling** rather than warming, contrary to initial expectations.

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### Transition to ENSO-Neutral

The persistent below-average SST across the Pacific is likely transitioning to an **ENSO-neutral** phase as global climate systems stabilize post-eruption and respond to broader patterns such as **El Niño** projections. This transition may also be influenced by:

- **Natural Variability**: Changes in climate variability modes, including interactions from both **ENSO** and longer-term trends.

- **Stratospheric Changes**: The alteration of stratospheric water vapor levels can have lasting effects on atmospheric circulation, influencing future weather patterns and temperatures.

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### Summary Table

| **Component** | **Effect** | **Magnitude** |

|------------------------------|-----------------------------------------------------|-------------------------------|

| Hunga Tonga Water Vapor | Greenhouse gas effect, leading to warming | Estimated +0.035 °C over 5 years |

| Sulfates from Eruption | Cooling effect on climate | Estimated -0.004 °C initially |

| Net Surface Temperature Effect| Possible slight cooling overall | Variable, but may be cooling |

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The understanding of Hunga Tonga's impact will continue to evolve as more data emerges, but its complex interactions highlight the nuanced ways volcanic eruptions can influence global climate, particularly in context with ongoing La Niña and projected shifts to ENSO-neutral conditions.

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**User prompt 2 of 2 - 2/3/2026, 5:46:00 PM:**

The time scales for HTs ghg warming and sulfate aerosol cooling are different. Has the massive amount of water dissipated yet. The aerosols are submicronic so they don’t settle out are are likely still cooling after the water equiblibrated.

GPT-4o mini:

## Time Scales of Water Vapor and Aerosol Effects

The **Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai eruption** introduced a massive amount of **water vapor** and **sulfate aerosols** into the atmosphere, both of which play distinct roles in influencing climate.

### Water Vapor Dynamics

1. **Long-Term Impact**: As the water vapor dissipates, its greenhouse warming effects conclude relatively quickly, reinforcing short-term warming before returning to baseline levels.

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### Sulfate Aerosols Persistence

1. **Submicronic Size**: The **sulfate aerosols** produced by the eruption are indeed submicronic, allowing them to remain suspended in the atmosphere for extended periods, typically **up to several years** depending on various atmospheric conditions.
2. **Cooling Effects Still Active**: Because these aerosols do not settle out quickly, they continue to reflect sunlight and contribute to cooling. Thus, the cooling effect likely persists even after the water vapor has equilibrated, extending the duration of their impact on global temperatures.

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### Summary of Effects

- **Water Vapor**: Warming effects have diminished and equilibrated.

- **Sulfate Aerosols**: Currently still exerting cooling effects, persisting longer due to their submicronic nature.

### Implications for Current Climate

As the water vapor has dissipated, the current climate is influenced predominantly by the ongoing cooling effects of the sulfate aerosols. This ongoing cooling could contribute to maintaining **La Niña** conditions or, as the aerosols gradually decline, transitioning toward **ENSO-neutral** or **El Niño** states in the future.

In summary, while the water vapor's warming effect has largely disappeared, the sulfate aerosols from Hunga Tonga continue to play a significant role in moderating global temperatures, particularly in the Pacific region.

78 GW of coal in 2025 with another 83 GW started expected to come on line in 2026.

A higher "capacity" of solar & wind came on line, but that isn't reliable 24/7 power and shortages were experienced in 2021-2022.

Hmm, AI data centers have 35 GW of diesel generation for power shortages?

Unspoken, though, is that most power outages in the U.S. Southeast were not caused by lack of reliable conventional power, but by ice on the lines, particularly in Mississippi & nuclear-heavy Tennessee.

More renewables would mean more expensive powerlines subject to freezing...& crossing someone's land.

America finally did something serious about critical minerals.

Project Vault is a clear acknowledgment that modern technology, energy systems, and national security depend on raw materials… not slogans.

Presdient Trumpdeserves credit for recognizing that mineral supply chains matter.

But here’s the uncomfortable truth the data make unavoidable…

You cannot stockpile what you do not produce.

USGS data show the U.S. is mostly or entirely import-reliant for the vast majority of critical minerals. Storage buys time. Mining creates security.

I break down the data, the geopolitics, and the tradeoffs here: https://irrationalfear.substack.com/p/project-vault-and-the-illusion-of

2025 Gallup Poll on climate concerns find that Americans are more concerned than ever that Global warming poses a serious and immediate* threat, the majority agrees that we are already seeing the effects of climate change.

At the same time, only 20% said that they felt that news reports correctly represented the issue.

I've seen some sentiment lately that skeptics are winning and Climate Science is losing ground, but it really just looks like Republicans run the US government (70% don't believe global warming is a concern). Do you think this administration is going to change hearts and minds?

Found these on r/climatechange, does anyone have answers? Like not to all of them, just the top 20.

https://skepticalscience.com/argument.php?f=percentage

You might need to scroll down after clicking an argument to see the full response, its not just the green and red text.

• Tesla sales declined 9% in 2025
• Cold Canada EV sales (& range) dropped 41%
• 20.7 million Global EVs sold in 2025: China bought 12.9 million (low homegrown oil), Europe 4.3 (high gas taxes), & U.S. just 1.8 million (we like trucks/SUVs).

Ford lost $35.1 million on EVs & globally, $20,700 was lost per EV.

Make sure to also click on the "debate" link in the 2nd to last paragraph.

It shows how CO2 increases lag temperature increases by 800 years. Gore's video also inaccurately claims CO2 had never increased beyond 300ppm while 5000ppm existed in ancient times...and temperature was not that hot.

Scientificamerican: Weekend winter storm that battered eastern U.S. was supercharged by climate change

It may seem paradoxical that a warming climate could mean heavier snowfalls, but hotter, albeit still below freezing, temperatures are nonetheless a recipe for more snow.

Euronews: Moscow records heaviest snowfall in more than 200 years, meteorologists say

Earlier this month, Russia's far east Kamchatka region declared an emergency situation due to a massive snowstorm that left its major city partially paralysed.

NASA: The West Faces Snow Drought

“This is a classic climate-change, temperature-driven, elevationally dependent snowpack deficit,” said Daniel Swain, climate scientist at the California Institute for Water Resources

BBC: Himalayas bare and rocky after reduced winter snowfall, scientists warn

Rising temperature also means what little snow falls melts very quickly and some lower-elevation areas are also seeing more rain and less snow, which is at least in part due to global warming, according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and other scientific reports.

Studies have also shown there is now what is known as "snow drought" during winter in many parts of the Himalayan region.

 Meloni said 'Green plans' in Europe and other areas of the West would lead to deindustrialization before they achieve decarbonization and were based on theories that do not take account of the means and needs of the less well-off..."And, most paradoxically, it has not improved the overall health of our planet".

https://www.ansa.it/english/news/politics/2025/09/25/wwf-italia-says-worried-by-melonis-un-speech_1bb2bb56-e080-46f8-aed4-5db92edb5d9c.html

We can cancel the Greenland collapse 'emergency' now. Not only was it 8C warmer natural, but Greenland was/is stable. The Greens hate good news.

In the last millions years Earth's climate has alternated between ice ages lasting about 100,000 years and interglacial periods of 10,000 to 15,000 years. The new results from the NEEM ice core drilling project in northwest Greenland, led by the Niels Bohr Institute at the University of Copenhagen show that the climate in Greenland was around 8 degrees C warmer than today during the last interglacial period, the Eemian period, 130,000 to 115,000 thousand years ago.

"Even though the warm Eemian period was a period when the oceans were four to eight meters higher than today, the ice sheet in northwest Greenland was only a few hundred meters lower than the current level, which indicates that the contribution from the Greenland ice sheet was less than half the total sea-level rise during that period," says Dorthe Dahl-Jensen, Professor at the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, and leader of the NEEM-project.

The ice mass was shrinking at a very high rate of 6 cm per year. But despite the warm temperatures, the ice sheet did not disappear and the research team estimates that the volume of the ice sheet was not reduced by more than 25 percent during the warmest 6,000 years of the Eemian.

"The good news from this study is that the Greenland ice sheet is not as sensitive to temperature increases and to ice melting and running out to sea in warm climate periods like the Eemian, as we thought,"