Icelandic Volcanoes Could Produce Acid Rain Clouds

Softpedia ^ | September 20, 2011 | Tudor Vieru

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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.

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Astronomers Unravel A Mystery Of The Dark Ages

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http://www.britannia.com/history/docs/annales.html I like this reference to 540 AD. You have Arthur and Modred both dying. No doubt the spirits of the wells of inspired storytelling fled ~ as real life became something truly incredible. And then: an.’ 548 Mortalitas magna in qua pausat mailcun rex genedotę.

[Quix]

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