Erupting Chilean volcano could spew ash for months

AP on Yahoo ^ | 5/7/08 | Antonio de la Jara

[NormsRevenge]

A gaucho herds cows down a road covered with volcanic ash in Argentina's Patagonian town of El Hoyo May 7, 2008. Experts believe Chile's Chaiten volcano could continue belching out vast clouds of ash for months but distraught people evacuated from nearby towns say they yearn to return as soon as possible. Ash that has reached as far as Argentina continued to spew for a sixth day on Wednesday, disrupting flights to the southern Patagonia region with no sign of let-up. REUTERS/Jorge Cortizo (ARGENTINA)

[Trueblackman]

Global Warming strikes again.

[Be_Politically_Erect]

Get algore within 20 yards of the mouth of the volcano and have him “inhale briskly”....problem solved.

[NormsRevenge]

But for a kid from Chile..
a volcano is about national pride and being a survivor.

A boy holds a national flag while being evacuated from Futaleufu, 1300 kms south of Santiago. Ash from the erupting Chaiten volcano in southern Chile spread across a growing swathe of South America on Wednesday, forcing flight cancellations across much of Argentina and threatening to blanket more towns in Argentina and Chile. (AFP/File/Christian Brown)

[Argus]

Volcanic eruptions cause global cooling. When Krakatoa blew, the result was “The Year Without a Summer”.

[RightWhale]

The effects should be restricted to the southern hemisphere.

[NormsRevenge]

Oh yeah!

This is gonna spew a lot of crud&stuff into the atmosphere at a most "Inconvenient Truths Time"...

If only we could cap politicos and volcanos emissions.

Darlington time too..
The Lady in Black

[ClearCase_guy]

Q: What does Hillary Clinton have in common with a Chilean volcano?
A: Both are expected to keep spewing for several more months.

[NormsRevenge]

/rimshot lol

[NewJerseyJoe]

Will the enviro-whackos be encouraging Americans to practice “volcano offsets” to mitigate the effects of volcanic gases?

[txhurl]

Mexicans burning their CROPS cause cooling. Ask any central Texan, in 1997 the mexican fires took the sun away for the whole summer in Texas.

[urabus]

The effects should be restricted to the southern hemisphere.

But they wont. Krakatoa affected weather globally, and the longer this one 'spews', the lesser the effects will be restricted only to the southern hemisphere.

[21twelve]

Yep. I have even heard the global warming types say things like “and if it weren't for Pinatubo, Mt. St. Helens, etc. - it would be EVEN WARMER!” (Almost like they are disappointed or something that the volcanoes DID blow).

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

I think that was Tambora in 1815.

Krakatoa was in 1883.

[The_Reader_David]

The ‘Year with out a summer’ was caused by Tambura in 1816. Krakatoa didn’t quite have so pronounced an effect because we’d pulled out of the Little Ice Age by then.

[urabus]

Krakatoa was in 1883.

Effects of Krakatoa:

“In the year following the eruption, average global temperatures fell by as much as 1.2 degrees Celsius. Weather patterns continued to be chaotic for years, and temperatures did not return to normal until 1888. The eruption injected an unusually large amount of sulfur dioxide (SO2) gas high into the stratosphere which was subsequently transported by high-level winds all over the planet. This led to a global increase in sulfurous acid (H2SO3) concentration in high-level cirrus clouds. The resulting increase in cloud reflectivity (or albedo) would reflect more incoming light from the sun than usual, and cool the entire planet until the suspended sulfur fell to the ground as acid precipitation.[9]” -wikiped...

[stefanbatory]

“Ash that has reached as far as Argentina”

Is there any part of Chile that is far from Argentina? aside from the Atacama region, of course...Regardless, if you’re south of Valparaiso, you are not going to be far from Argentina...

[Argus]

I stand corrected.

[rarestia]

Seems to be a LOT of geothermal and tectonic activity going on right now. Seems that there’s another story about quakes in the midwest and mountain west. I truly do hope it kicks up more.

Been a drier than usual Spring in Florida. I actually enjoy driving home with the windows down, but it’s getting close to 90. I would welcome some volcanic eruptions to cool us all down.

And bump for cool pictures. The Earth kicks ass!

[stockpirate]

This is easy to stop.

Have Al Gore declare the area around the volcano a carn free zone; that way the volcano will stop.

Actually have B. Hussain Obama speak the words. scarasm off