The source of sulphur dioxide emissions in the Siberian Traps has been identified

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Noril'sk,the most polluted city on the planet, large emissions of sulphur dioxide and the Permian mass extinction

Follow-upon Sulfur Dioxide Release in Russia & EQ Report with Margo (May8, 2019)

Following on from his own video and from reports from both Margo and myself Dave (Nostrodoomus) has done some fantastic sleuthing and has been able to find coordinates as to where the huge emissions of sulphur dioxide (SO2) are coming from.
69.50° N, 88.40° E

Here is his video:

This shows the place of origin of the emissions relative to Noril'sk.

And zooming in to get a better look at the region in which it can be seen how it differes from the surrounding area with thermokast lakes.

This region is still under snow

This is from today. You can see that eruptions from other areas such as Hawaii or Popocatépetl in Mexico are insignificant compared from these Siberian emissions.

In addition to CAMS he has found that Nullschool is an excellent source for monitoring this.
This comes from today:

And focusing in you can see the position relative to Novaya Zemlya and the Yamal peninsula (site of the the huge craters that have been shown to be due to methane eruptions).

These eruptions are not a one-off. Dave goes right back and identifies other major eruptions, some of which I have caught on screenshots.

1 May, 2019

16 April, 2019

22 March, 2019

2 February, 2019

Having identified the co-ordinates Dave has been able to show on NASA Worldview where he thinks that the emissions may be coming from.
You will have to play through the video to see this more clearly. If you look carefully you can see signs of SO2 emissions on NASA Worldview.

Listen to Nostrodoomus' conclusion here

Sulphur dioxide emissions in Siberia: a sign of the coming extinction?

This is an illustration that CO2 may not be the ONLY player in abrupt heating on the planet and the rush to mass extinction.



Noril'sk, the most polluted city on the planet, large emissions of sulphur dioxide and the Permian mass extinction


I am most grateful to Dave (Nostrodoomus) and Margo who have done stellar work on picking up and researching something that has seemingly not been picked up by anyone else

Here is the video made yesterday by Dave that goes into this. It is also discussed by Margo in her May 4 video which I have posted at the bottom of the article.

What they picked up was very, very large emissions of sulphur dioxide in Western Siberia.

Sulphur dioxide is usually associated with earthquakes and volcanoes and is therefore usually associated with areas (such as currently, Mexico) where there is such activity.

It is highly irregular to have such levels of sulphur dioxide where there is no such activity.

According to my research sulphur dioxide (SO2) is an INDIRECT greenhouse gas "because it contributes to aerosol formation which can either warm (through absorption of solar radiation on dark particles) or cool (from forming cloud droplets and reflecting radiation) the atmosphere."

http://naei.beis.gov.uk/overview/ghg-overview


High SO2 emissions last week

The following demonstrates the high levels of emissions.

500 hPa (5,500 meters altitude)

Friday, 3 May - 7 May , 2019 Sulphur dioxide - total column

These emission levels are right at the top of the scale

Total column

Surface

Friday, 3 - 7 May, 2019 Sulphur dioxide - total column

Noril'sk, the most polluted city in the world

Davie and Margo managed to narrow down the source of the SO2 to the area shown in the map.  You can see Novaya Zemlya and the Yamal Peninsula, which we are familiar with to the west.

What is here is the city of Noril'sk, a mining center since the 1920's and site of one of Stalin's concentration camp centers.

The following confirms that sulphur dioxide emissions are associated with the mining of nickel in Noril'sk.

https://www.nornickel.com/news-and-media/press-releases-and-news/dangerous-sulfur-dioxide-levels-at-kola-nickel-plant-are-dropping-cheering-environmentalists/

This photo (from Google Earth) shows the city of Norilsk and its environs

And some very polluted ponds with a proliferation of thermokarst lakes, formed by melting permafrost

Zooming in....

Here is some articles which discusses the city:

Norilsk:A Closed City in Siberia

The city’s origins lie in the end of 1920, when it was decided to build a metallurgic complex for extraction of the rich resources of the region. The city was built by Soviet Gulag prisoners and became the the center of a Gulag prisoner camp in 1935 which reached its highest peak of (mostly political) prisoners in 1951, having as many as 75.000 estimated prisoners. Later in the 1950s these same prisoners were abused in the plan of Joseph Stalin to connect the city to the South-East of the Soviet-Union and ultimately to Moscow itself with a railroad. The project was never finished, as the arctic climate proved to be a large burden, but at the cost of thousands of prisoners. For this reason the city is only accessible through air or the infamous Russian road system.

Norilsk is currently a so called ‘closed city’ since 2001, as it is for strategic reasons closed to foreigners. It is believed that these reasons are the huge mineral reserves and mining operations and the IBM-missile depots which are situated in the vicinity of the city. The closed city is a follow up of the ‘secret city’ concept which existed during Soviet times. These were cities which were not on any map, roadsign or listed as a destination for public transport. These cities were mainly cities which were regarded ‘Atomgrads’, cities with nuclear research activities or weapon depots. Currently access to these former closed cities is only possible with an invitation and a long application procedure.

http://theprotocity.com/norilsk_closed_cit/?fbclid=IwAR1uiGR0J9LVQ9Cl3tBzj45vqiCnDpGI5elcCGywWyyGPfDIdhx89j6xmmw

Where the river runs red: can Norilsk, Russia's most polluted city, come clean?

https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/sep/15/norilsk-red-river-russias-most-polluted-city-clean

Here is a documentary made by a team that managed to get into the area.

The Siberian Traps and the Permian extinction

(Many thanks to Rosemary Hill)

The Siberian Traps that geographically coincide with the area we are discussing have been associated with "the Great Dying" 252 million years ago.

Figure Caption: Western Siberia showing the location of the main outcrops of the Siberian Traps on the Siberian craton The approximate extent of the craton is indicated in blue. Extensive subcrops of basalt occur beneath the West Siberian Basin, but are not shown on this map.

According to one theory the extinction was associated with the release of sulphur dioxide (SO2), carbon dioxide (CO2) and presumably methane (CH4) 

About 252 million years ago, the world came very close to ending when the vast majority of species on the planet winked out of existence in an event known euphemistically as "The Great Dying." Somehow, very violently, the period known to scientists as the Permian ended and the Triassic began, ushered in by a bang.

Recently, scientists have argued that the bang in question was the violent release of lava over a huge stretch of Russian land known as the Siberian Traps during a flood basalt eruption—a class of eruption which pours out 200 billion gallons of molten rock, at a bare minimum.

"We're looking for something catastrophic," Michael Rampino, a geologist at New York University, told Newsweek, noting that whatever caused the extinction seems to have happened quickly. The Siberian Traps, which is the largest stretch of land on the planet that can host flood basalt eruptions, certainly fit that description. But although scientists had established that they erupted at just about the time of the Permian extinction, they hadn't found a fingerprint of the eruption in rock around the world.

https://www.newsweek.com/huge-siberian-eruptions-caused-mass-extinction-and-left-signature-rocks-677017?fbclid=IwAR2M4UuO8kAiCPnFI8kEZA97moWaINp2wK4zMNbQcWn4mS72oGstrORb4AA

https://www.le.ac.uk/gl/ads/SiberianTraps/PDF%20Files/The%20Siberian%20Traps%20and%20the%20End-Permian%20mass.pdf?fbclid=IwAR1trqcU4zIBWB6MPLHnwb7kyqt3vXQfOAEB1QACwwFK5MtvPp_faZBppZk

What is giving rise to such high emissions?

Whilst sulphur dioxide emissions are definitely associated with pollution from the mining of nickel these emissions that Dave and Margo have observed are far too extensive for this to be more than a partial explanation.

It is simply much too large.

Also of interest, the emissions are intermittent just as methane emissions are.

One very reasonable hypothesis is that there have been geological changes which is leading to magma coming to the surface much as it did in the Permian extinction.

Clearly, this is something that has to be watched. 

Here is Margo's report on this: