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🗓️ 29 March 2024
⏱️ 28 minutes
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We spend a lot of our time thinking about climate change, but listener Paul has a question that isn’t usually part of the conversation. He wants to know whether a hotter atmosphere will affect how often volcanoes erupt, or make them more explosive when they do.
CrowdScience travels to New Zealand to search for answers, exploring volcanic craters and discovering traditional Maori knowledge about volcanoes.
Contributors: Geoff Kilgour, Volcanologist, Geological and Nuclear Sciences Taupo, New Zealand Heather Handley, Volcanologist, University of Twente, The Netherlands Pouroto Ngaropo, Historian and Matauranga Māori expert, Rotorua, New Zealand
Presenter: Caroline Steel Producer: Emily Bird Editor: Cathy Edwards Production Co-Ordinator: Connor Morgans Sound Engineer: Steve Greenwood
(Photo: Icelandic volcano. Credit: KRISTINN MAGNUSSON/Getty Images)
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0:39.7 | sat at the base of an active volcano in New Zealand and you might be able to hear the sound of |
0:45.5 | bubbling water behind me. I'm sat next to a rushing stream which is steaming and bubbling. So my guess is it's pretty hot. This is all |
0:55.4 | thanks to a question from this Nepal back in the UK. So I'm Paul Wright and |
1:01.0 | I'm just north of Blackpool in a county called Lancashire in the UK. |
1:04.8 | What's your question for crowd science? |
1:06.8 | I was just a rugby match watching my son playing. It was very cold and I'd put on a number of layers because I've been told that many layers help their body to keep warm. |
1:16.5 | And it made me think that if even small layers of clothing can make the body so much warmer, |
1:22.0 | if the earth itself and the atmosphere gets warmer |
1:26.6 | through global warming, will that mean that there's more heat into the Earth and |
1:31.2 | therefore more likely to be volcanoes or the earthquakes related to |
1:35.3 | volcanoes because the magma gets warmer and so I thought I'd write into crowd science to see if it's a question that they could look at for me. |
1:42.8 | Okay, so kind of like how if you're sat in a room and you turn the heating up, your body |
1:47.6 | gets warmer. |
1:49.3 | The earth is wrapped in a layer of warm air, or atmosphere, and if you warm up the atmosphere maybe the earth gets |
1:57.0 | warmer and if the earth gets warmer that could affect volcanoes. |
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