Posted on 09/20/2011 8:03:31 PM PDT by decimon
The Laki eruption of 1783, while unknown to many, was a massive volcanic eruption in southern Iceland that led to the production of massive acid rain clouds throughout Europe. Scientists now warn that this could happen again, were a similar eruption to occur at this point.
Over the past couple of years, two major eruptions occurred in Iceland, indications of the turmoil going on below the planetary surface at this geologically-active location. Both of these events Grímsvötn and Eyjafjallajökull had significant repercussions on Europe, but the former was the worse.
The 2010 event caused the majority of major airports in Europe to shut down, producing incalculable economic and environmental damages. But even its strength pales in comparison to that of the Laki eruption, all those centuries ago.
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The eruption did not produce significant amounts of ash but instead emitted about 122 megatons of sulfur dioxide into the atmosphere, more than all global man-made emissions in a year. Laki-style events have occurred several times during the last 1,000 years, the expert concludes.
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The book by Austen Atkinson, Impact Earth: Asteroids, Comets and Meteoroids: The Growing Threat hypothesizes an impact event. He reports that “the absence of an acid layer or ‘volcanic-fingerprint’ in ice cores suggests that there may have been another cause: atmospheric loading from space, an impact.” However, Cassiodorus, 534AD, reports such phenomena as “blue-coloured sun” which make me think of Benjamin Franklin’s reports from Europe of a “blue haze”.
The Laki Fissure event was very hard on Iceland and on Europe. The fluorine gases and ash destroyed the teeth of grazing animals, and 90% died off. About 10,000 Icelanders starved to death. Crop failures in Europe may have helped precipitate the French Revolution. Tambora in 1815 was also very bad, leading to “The year with no summer” in New England which helped promote migration from that area. Hope that we don’t have another such event in our lifetime.
CERN tracks faster than light particle . . .
tends to throw a bit of a monkey wrench in the more conventional publically known standard model, I’d think.
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/E/EU_BREAKING_LIGHT_SPEED?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT
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