Online lecture by Dr Javier Vinós
In January 2022, a massive underwater volcano erupted at Tonga, shooting so much water into the stratosphere that water vapor levels there suddenly rose by 10%. The climate consequences of such an unprecedented eruption were unknown. A year later, a multitude of atmospheric and oceanic anomalies, exceeding several standard deviations, were observed. Together, these anomalies constitute a multiannual global deviation from long-term climate patterns, meaning that 2023–24 qualifies as the real first climate event in 80 years. The media and politicians blamed human emissions of greenhouse gases for making it possible and used it to push the net zero political agenda. However, climate scientists and their models could not explain it and denied, without evidence, that the Hunga Tonga eruption could have been responsible. Dr Vinós, who has studied the 2023–24 climate event, suggests that only the Hunga Tonga eruption can explain the rapid, abrupt warming and subsequent intense cooling. The media and scientists have remained silent on this unexplained cooling. Dr Vinós’ analysis sheds new light on this hitherto unexplored area of climate science and will undoubtedly lead to animated discussion.
Event details
- Date: 25 February 2026
- Location: online
- Entrance fee: request via email jim@jimobriencsr.com
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Dr Javier Vinós holds a Ph.D. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from the School of Medicine of the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Spain). He was a postdoctoral fellow at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and the Department of Biology at the University of California, San Diego (USA). He was an Associate Researcher at the Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge (U.K.) and a Staff Researcher at the Spanish Council for Scientific Research. He has won prestigious competitive fellowships and grants, including the international J. William Fulbright Fellowship, the U.S. National Institutes of Health Fogarty Fellowship, and the E.U. Marie Curie Fellowship. His scientific papers have been cited over 1200 times. He left academic research for the private sector 15 years ago and has been researching climate science for the last 10 years, and has written two climate books. His first book is peer-reviewed and is ranked in the top 3% of climatology research works in terms of research interest by the scientist social network ResearchGate. He now Chairs the Madrid-based climate realist group “Asociación de Realistas Climáticos (ARC)”.
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