Now That's Some Global Warming!

Early this morning, I posted about how the Vanuatu island of Tegua is not being immersed in globally warmed water, despite hysterical claims by the UN and Reuters that it is. Turns out the real global warming's happening a couple islands over, at Ambae Island:

A volcano pumping a huge plume of gas, steam and ash into the atmosphere from a crater ringed with dead trees is unlikely to explode in a devastating eruption, a vulcanologist said Thursday, bringing applause from anxious islanders.

About half of Ambae Island's 10,000 inhabitants have fled their huts built on Mount Manaro's jungle-covered slopes, and four ships are anchored offshore ready to evacuate the rest if necessary. ...

Displaced villagers sat in the shade of trees Thursday watching the 10,000-foot plume as they waited to hear if they would be allowed go home or be forced to evacuate the island.

Thousands have already fled to makeshift camps on lower ground.

Roselyn Garae said some 200 people from her village of Lolovoli were trucked from their homes Monday to a school at Longana, amid fears the eruption could send a lahar crashing out of the crater. (AP)

As the volcano, which soars 4,920 feet out of the South Pacific, began spewing rocks and ash Nov. 27, villagers sent a team of boys to look into the crater.

That's 13 days of unfettered venting and spewing, during which time more greenhouse gases have gone into the atmosphere than we mere humans can produce in years of SUV-driving.

Perhaps the climate change experts at the UN conference in Montreal (where it's an unwarm 19 degrees) should consider dropping what they're doing and convene a conference on how to put really big corks in the mouths of volcanoes.