An erupting volcano could save Earth from humanity
Mount Agung
NASA hopes to take advantage of the island’s erupting volcano — Mount Agung — to study the effects the belching beast has on Earth. They hope that by tracking  Mount Agung’s  eruption  they’ll be able to learn more about how chemicals released into the atmosphere might be used to fight climate change.
After  Mount Agung  woke up and began erupting at the end of November  it has been consistently pouring steam and gas into the atmosphere. This is pretty typical though some volcanoes are so powerful they can cause what is known as a “volcanic winter” that stretches near and far after they erupt.
For researchers   Agung  could be their chance to figure out just how volcanoes affect the climate like Mount Tambora did.
The research into  Agung  began with a ten-hour flight away from  Agung   when a volcano in the Philippines erupted in a big way in 1991. Scientists had picked up the trend during a smaller scale eruption in 1982 of the El Chichon volcano in Mexico  but nothing quite like what they saw at Mount Pinatubo  in the Philippine  dubbed the biggest eruption of the 20th century.
 Mount Agung’s  eruptions bear similar trademarks to Pinatubo which is why NASA is hoping to send balloons into the air fitted with gadgets to measure the effects of the volcanic eruption on the Earth’s atmosphere. NASA hopes to study the effects for years to come.
If  Agung  was to blow again with a similar fury to Pinatubo’s 1963 eruption  it could pump enough sulphur dioxide into the atmosphere to have a significant cooling effect and temporarily damage the ozone layer.
Alan Robock  a Rutgers University researcher who models the effects of eruptions and who has been involved in discussions about the rapid-response project told The Times that though it’s hard to predict  whether it’s Mount Agung or not  an eruption is inevitable.
NASA hopes to take advantage of the island’s erupting volcano — Mount Agung — to study the effects the belching beast has on Earth. They hope that by tracking  Mount Agung’s  eruption  they’ll be able to learn more about how chemicals released into the atmosphere might be used to fight climate change.
After  [TGT]woke up and began erupting at the end of November  [TGT] has been consistently pouring steam and gas into the atmosphere. This is pretty typical though some volcanoes are so powerful they can cause what is known as a “volcanic winter” that stretches near and far after they erupt.
For researchers   Agung  could be their chance to figure out just how volcanoes affect the climate like Mount Tambora did.
The research into  Agung  began with a ten-hour flight away from  Agung   when a volcano in the Philippines erupted in a big way in 1991. Scientists had picked up the trend during a smaller scale eruption in 1982 of the El Chichon volcano in Mexico  but nothing quite like what they saw at Mount Pinatubo  in the Philippine  dubbed the biggest eruption of the 20th century.
 Mount Agung’s  eruptions bear similar trademarks to Pinatubo which is why NASA is hoping to send balloons into the air fitted with gadgets to measure the effects of the volcanic eruption on the Earth’s atmosphere. NASA hopes to study the effects for years to come.
If  Agung  was to blow again with a similar fury to Pinatubo’s 1963 eruption  it could pump enough sulphur dioxide into the atmosphere to have a significant cooling effect and temporarily damage the ozone layer.
Alan Robock  a Rutgers University researcher who models the effects of eruptions and who has been involved in discussions about the rapid-response project told The Times that though it’s hard to predict  whether it’s Mount Agung or not  an eruption is inevitable.