Does anyone believe this paper?  Certainly the meteorology is suspect. 

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> On Sep 7, 2018, at 5:57 PM, Andrew Lockley <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Poster's note: relevant to the understanding of geoengineering analogues, and 
> also potentially modifiable as a distribution technique 
> 
> https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/geology/article/547176/electrostatic-levitation-of-volcanic-ash-into-the
> 
> RESEARCH ARTICLE|AUGUST 21, 2018
> Electrostatic levitation of volcanic ash into the ionosphere and its abrupt 
> effect on climate 
> Matthew J. Genge
> Geology (2018)
> https://doi.org/10.1130/G45092.1
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> Large volcanic eruptions cause short-term climate change owing to the 
> convective rise of fine ash and aerosols into the stratosphere. Volcanic 
> plumes are, however, also associated with large net electrical charges that 
> can also in infuence the dynamics of their ash particles. Here I show that 
> electrostatic levitation of ash from plumes with a net charge is capable of 
> injecting volcanic particles <500 nm in diameter into the ionosphere in large 
> eruptions lasting more than a few hours. Measured disturbances in the 
> ionosphere during eruptions, and the first discovery of polar mesospheric 
> clouds after the A.D. 1883 Krakatau (Indonesia) eruption, are both consistent 
> with levitation of ash into the mesosphere. Supervolcano eruptions are likely 
> to inject signicant quantities of charged ash into the ionosphere, resulting 
> in disturbance or collapse of the global electrical circuit on time scales of 
> 102 s. Because atmospheric electrical potential moderates cloud formation, 
> large eruptions may have abrupt effects on climate through radiative forcing. 
> Average air temperature and precipitation records from the 1883 eruption of 
> Krakatau are consistent with a sudden effect on climate.
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