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Iceland prepares for second, more devastating volcanic eruption-Northern Hemisphere Cooling?
Times Online (UK) ^
| March 21, 2010
| Roger Boyes
Posted on 03/21/2010 8:35:46 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
About 500 people were evacuated when Eyjafjallajokull volcano erupted
Iceland is preparing for an even more powerful and potentially destructive volcano after a small eruption at the weekend shot red-hot molten lava high into the sky.
About 500 people were safely evacuated from the land close to the Eyjafjallajokull volcano, which is around 120 kilometres (75 miles) southeast of the capital, Reykjavik. The country's two airports were closed for most of the day and transatlantic flights re-routed to avoid the risk of ash blocking visibility and destroying engines.
After circling the spectacular eruption in a Civil Defence aircraft, Freymodur Sigmundsson, a geophysicist, concluded that the immediate danger was receding and that the lava was flowing along a one kilometre-long fissure.
The original fear was that the volcano had erupted directly underneath the Eyjafjallajokull glacier, which could have caused glacial melt, flooding and mudslides. Instead, the volcano blew inbetween Eyjafjallajokull and the larger Myrdalsjoekull glacier.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: catastrophism; climatechange; globalwarming; globalwarminghoax; iceland; icelandvolcano; volcano
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
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posted on
03/21/2010 8:36:28 PM PDT
by
Frantzie
(TV - sending Americans towards Islamic serfdom - Cancel TV service NOW)
To: Frantzie
Maybe they should rename it to ‘Fireland.’
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posted on
03/21/2010 8:37:57 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: Frantzie
Beautiful pics of the eruption but oh so dangerous. Prayers out for the people in Iceland.
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posted on
03/21/2010 8:38:37 PM PDT
by
BCR #226
(07/02 SOT www.extremefirepower.com...The BS stops when the hammer drops.)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Another spate of bad news for Iceland. Prayers to them.
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posted on
03/21/2010 8:39:13 PM PDT
by
mlocher
(USA is a sovereign nation)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
“Eyjafjallajokull:
“I laf ha ha joke you’all”?
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posted on
03/21/2010 8:43:13 PM PDT
by
patton
(Obama has replaced "Res Publica" with "Quod licet Jovi non licet bovi.")
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Ash into atmosphere, long winters, crop failures.
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posted on
03/21/2010 8:49:36 PM PDT
by
Mamzelle
(Cameras, cameras--never forget to bring your cameras)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Our All Mighty God is already pissed.
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posted on
03/21/2010 8:55:13 PM PDT
by
dcrider182
(When a person is criminalized for defending himself, you will lose every other freedom you ever had.)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Our All Mighty God is already pissed.
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posted on
03/21/2010 8:55:56 PM PDT
by
dcrider182
(When a person is criminalized for defending himself, you will lose every other freedom you ever had.)
To: dcrider182
Don’t worry, Obama will make it all better. /sarc>
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posted on
03/21/2010 8:59:33 PM PDT
by
Nowhere Man
(General James Mattoon Scott, where are you when we need you?)
To: dcrider182
Or, it’s the result of a magma plume that intersects with a plate boundary.
Actually seems like it’s been a really long time since the last Icelandic volcanic eruption.
To: Strategerist
Or, its the result of a magma plume that intersects with a plate boundary.That's 'liquid, hot, mag-mah!'
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posted on
03/21/2010 9:22:22 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: dfwgator
Worse, Iceland’s volcanoes are unusually “dirty” in gas and ash, unlike Hawaii’s.
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posted on
03/21/2010 9:31:22 PM PDT
by
The Antiyuppie
("When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day.")
To: Mamzelle; SunkenCiv
"Ash into atmosphere, long winters, crop failures."Could be.
(My preparations for the coming revolution will be helpful during the crop failure & famine)
Catastrophism ping
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posted on
03/21/2010 9:48:39 PM PDT
by
blam
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To: blam; yield 2 the right
History channel video clips ,...4 & 5 get into how the eroption in 1700 cause severe problems around the globe....
How the Earth Was MadeThanks to yield 2 the right for posting the links.
eruption in the late 1700's
To: Strategerist
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
High volcanic activity combined with low solar cycle activity may adversely affect this year's crops.
The last time we had solar activity this low was during the Dalton Minimum. When that combined with with some severe volcanic activity we had The Year Without A Summer, resulting in food shortages and famine.
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posted on
03/22/2010 6:00:21 AM PDT
by
PapaBear3625
(Public healthcare looks like it will work as well as public housing did.)
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