Posted on 11/20/2021 4:11:01 PM PST by nickcarraway
Volcano scientists issued an alert Wednesday, warning that a cloud of ash - from an eruption more than century ago - was headed toward Alaska's Kodiak Island.
The ash is from the powerful 1912 eruption of Novarupta, a volcano on the Alaska Peninsula that dropped volcanic ash that is still visible today.
Strong northwesterly winds in the vicinity of Katmai National Park and Preserve and Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes on Wednesday kicked up the loose volcano ash.
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Wow, no mention of global warming or climate change.
Obviously William Howard Taft’s fault since he was a Republican.
How much human air pollution from 1912 is still visible in the sky today? Perhaps Nature has a big effect on nature, and humans have a much smaller, more transient effect on nature. Just my opinion.
“Second-hand smoke”
Apparently the la palma volcano is spewing more sulphur dioxide than the EU.
Obviously William Howard Taft’s fault since he was a Republican.Actually, one of the biggest concocted "scandals" during Taft's administration was over Alaska mineral rights, so they may have well have blamed the volcano on him.
I did a 10 day hunt on Afognak Island many years ago (just north of Kodiak). We dug a hole. About 6” of topsoil and then 2’ or so of ash. Glad I missed that one!
How did your hunt turn out?
I’ve not heard of that before. You referring to the Ballinger/Pinchot controversy?
Saw LOTS of critters but the bears were hiding that Spring.
Yeah, it was all about the socialist Pinchot and his minime Louis Glavis. They freaked out when Taft replaced TR’s Interior Secretary with Ballinger (who had served under Garfield in the Land Office, so he had appropriate experience).
Glavis accused Ballinger of siding with the mining “trusts!” (I once cataloged about 20 different “trusts” that were objects of a general media freakout in 1911/12). Glavis presented Taft with a ridiculous, novel-length report on Ballinger’s supposed corruption over Alaska coal claims by a guy, Cunningham, who had partnered with the “Alaska Syndicate,” a Morgan-Guggenheim partnership. Taft read the document, reasonably dismissed the accusations as hyperbolic and innuendo, and fired Glavis for insubordination.
Pinchot then got involved by having a progressive Republican, Senator Dolliver, read a Pinchot letter into the Congressional Record. Taft then fired Pinchot, which was the intended effect. Congressional hearings cleared Ballinger of any wrongdoing.
It was all concocted and silly, but Pinchot got what he wanted by using it as a wedge between Taft and TR. It also forced Ballinger’s later resignation. His successor, Walter Fisher, eventually rejected the Cunningham claims. I don’t remember details, but I think Fisher was a bit of a progressive and that Taft was just hoping the whole thing would go away and he might appease TR w/ the appointment.
Btw, Taft’s friend, Gen. Edwards, had the best description of TR’s little admirers, calling them “incense swingers,”
“... largely of the New England element, possibly more the Harvard type, who are supposed to stand around the President as acolytes do about a priest and swing incense at him and about him, while the center figure stands with this skirts outspread to receive the adulation … and who never think the President makes a mistake.”
A most fitting description of the environment of more than a few White Houses... ahem, Barry.
Thanks for the details. So it looks like we have another case of ‘anything regarding TR that isn’t some propagandized personal story leads to bigger government’.
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