Mexican volcano spews glowing rock

CNN.com ^ | 12/25/2005 | Staff

[Strategerist]

Boy, people really parsed what I typed wrong :-)

I meant that the lack of eruptions in the last 15 years may be a contributor to warm temperatures globally.

[Cold Heart]

I inherited some ash from the Pinatubo eruption. The ash had been collected from the deck of a ship berthed in Subic Bay. When I joined the ship back in the US there was a bag of it left in my desk drawer.

The ash piled to a depth of about a foot. Sailors tried to wash it off the deck with fire hoses. Didn't work well, just made it wet & heavier with little flow of material.

I donated the bag of ash to Oregon State University when they provided me with info for a research I was doing on an olde ship wreck. Dumby, I forgot to keep some for my collection.

[Strategerist]

Piddly eruptions like this have no climate effect whatsoever.

[BIGLOOK]

I agree. I also agree with your concerns about mudslides from a snow capped volcano. Its steep slope invites danger.

[jneesy]

heck all the ash will end up here

just like all the other bad things in mexico

[blam]

"I don't know if this holds for all volcanoes...but it does appear that major eruptions can at least sometimes have a noticeable cooling effect."

Here's one that really 'kicked butt'

Late Pleostocene Human Population Bottlenecks. . .(Toba)

[TexasTransplant]

>>>"People seem to have a difficult time believing this but humans release 150 times more Carbon Dioxide into the air per year than volcanoes (ALL of them in the world combined) do"<<<

Could you site a source, (if you are the source, your credentials and the actual data)

Thanks in advance

TT