Tuesday, January 31, 2023

Forbes.com: Year-Old Tonga Eruption To Keep Global Weather Wild For Years

By SIMON CONSTABLE

We are not out of the woods yet regarding high food and energy prices.

An epic volcanic eruption in the Pacific in mid-January last year is likely to keep causing havoc for the planet.

The Tonga undersea volcano unleashed staggering power, the equivalent of up to 18 megatons of TNT, according to experts at NASA. That’s multiple times the size of the nuclear bombs dropped on Nagasaki and Hiroshima at the end of WWII. Read more here.


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