Posted on 08/23/2014 8:34:53 AM PDT by FlJoePa
More global cooling. Now the enviro ninja’s will say it broke through the ice because of global warming...and now they know why this cooling is only temporary....and that the sky is indeed falling.
YIKES.....this is NOT good.
Iceland is a hotbed of seismic activity. This shouldn’t be a surprise to anybody. The Earth is doing what the Earth has been doing for billions of years.
/johnny
Linking thread posted five days ago
CODE ORANGE: The Risk Of An 'Explosive Subglacial Eruption' In Iceland Just Went Up
"Kelly noted, however, that Bardarbunga sits under 700m of ice, or nearly half a mile's worth, and to break through this an eruption would have to be quite massive. "
Thanks blam...
Wow! Global warming has heated the Earth up so much that it’s starting to touch off volcanoes even under frozen ice now.
Iceland should have to pay to clean up this mess.
It’s always the quiet ones...
A volcanic eruption can flat out ruin your day.
Isn’t interesting that the various depth ranges given in various reports differ as they do.
There is somewhere between a 100 meters and a half mile of ice -—dah, its a glacier, I would tell them.
What we want to know is the ice thickness above the eruption now underway and the ice melt potential down below that as the above area superheats and causes melt off of the perimeter. Will small coastal villages be swept away — information distribution is not done too well anymore.
Yeah!
Where's the claim form. I'm filing for diminished yield in my fall garden due to lower sunlight.
Bardarbunga bump for later.
WHY?
This is more than about flooding.
A volcano under ice is putting out heat as well as hydrogen sulfide which turns into sulfuric acid that breaks down the rock underneath. The combination of the degraded rock and water “greases the skids” and when the heat finally melts the glacier to where it breaks off, you can get a lahar (a massive landslide, mud/debris flow) that can travel 100 miles per hour down a mountainside and literally fill the valley below in less than an hour.
That can happen even if there is no eruption of the volcano.
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