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Second, more powerful Icelandic volcano likely to explode soon
daily beast ^ | 4/21/10 | Martin Hickman

Posted on 04/21/2010 8:27:21 PM PDT by Nachum

Despite grounding 100,000 flights across Europe , battering a beleaguered airline industry, stranding hundreds of thousands of travellers, disrupting schools and businesses, and giving homes under flight paths their first peace and quiet in decades, the current volcano eruption may be only a teaser of chaos to come.

A far bigger Icelandic volcano, Katla, is tipped to erupt in the coming months, potentially causing much more savage and sustained disruption to industry and society. Eyjafjallajokull erupted on 14 April, forcing European governments to impose a no-fly zone. Each time Eyjafjallajokull has erupted in the past 2,000 years – in 920, in 1612 and between 1821 and 1823 – Katla has exploded within six months.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: catastrophism; europe; iceland; icelandic; powerful; second; volcano
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To: unkus

The Pious is a rolling pile of hazardous waste!
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81 posted on 04/21/2010 9:27:13 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Obamacare is America's kristallnacht !!)
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To: unkus
" And a second volcanic eruption of greater magnitude might squash a lot of 0bama’s evil plans. "

Those Racist volcanoes... shame on them.
82 posted on 04/21/2010 9:27:40 PM PDT by American Constitutionalist (There is no civility in the way the Communist/Marxist want to destroy the USA)
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To: GonzoGOP

I cheer for them too.
I was born and raised on Oahu. And when you grow up in Hawaii, you learn a very healthy respect for nature, how beautiful it can be, and how deadly it can be.


83 posted on 04/21/2010 9:28:11 PM PDT by Proud_USA_Republican ("The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.")
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To: Windflier
Care to elaborate?

Sure

Iceland's Laki volcano

erupted in 1783, freeing gases that turned into smog. The smog floated across the Jet Stream, changing weather patterns. Many died from gas poisoning in the British Isles. Crop production fell in western Europe. Famine spread. . . . . . .

The winter of 1784 was also one of the longest and coldest on record in North America. New England reported a record stretch of below-zero temperatures and New Jersey reported record snow accumulation. The Mississippi River also reportedly froze in New Orleans.

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/eyjafjallajokull-crops-oil-flights-2010-4#ixzz0lnewZNEI

84 posted on 04/21/2010 9:28:23 PM PDT by Darren McCarty (I don't look for leaders. I follow my own path, my way.)
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To: editor-surveyor

Just air drop those Priuses into the volcano.


85 posted on 04/21/2010 9:28:24 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine
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To: unkus
Except one thing: God created this earth and it’s not “crud”.

By the sweat of your brow you will eat your food until you return to the ground, since from it you were taken; for dust you are and to dust you will return."

I always like to bring up the potter as my example. The clay used to make fine China is a nasty sticky blue/gray goop that will stick a car to a road or pull the boot off of an unwary traveler. You don't want in on your cloths and if you are a farmer you sure as heck don't want it in your fields. To be blunt it is crud.

But with the knowledge, work, and experience of the master potter the clay can be turned into a vase of incomprehensible value. Yet is there is no difference between the blob of boot sucking clay of the field, and the clay used to make the vase except for the hand of the potter.

The chemicals that make up the human body are nothing special. Spectral analysis shows them to be some of the most common in the solar system, and to also be common on the few exoplanets that have been analyzed. It is not what we are made of, but how we are put together. We are just crud touched and blessed by our creator. But renounce that blessing, or reject that touch and we are just crud. The clay should not be so proud as to take credit for the potters handy-work.

And that is all the 2 penny theology I'm going to come up with today.
86 posted on 04/21/2010 9:34:19 PM PDT by GonzoGOP (There are millions of paranoid people in the world and they are all out to get me.)
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To: Darren McCarty

Thanks for that excerpt.

I guess if Laki blows, all bets are off. We’re talking history-changing geo-political shift there.


87 posted on 04/21/2010 9:34:30 PM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: Disambiguator

Budda-bing


88 posted on 04/21/2010 9:34:41 PM PDT by Nachum (The complete Obama list at www.nachumlist.com)
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To: American Constitutionalist
When the year that there was no summer comes again, and more severe winters, and no feed, I wonder how the rich and wealthy liberal environmentalist will make out in this coming crises ?

Not to well, I'm afraid. Folks will take what they need in catastrophic circumstances. About all the rich can do is flee, if it gets that bad. They'd better be armed to the teeth, to boot.

89 posted on 04/21/2010 9:36:41 PM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: GonzoGOP

Priceless! Bravo ... Selah.


90 posted on 04/21/2010 9:38:08 PM PDT by MHGinTN (Obots, believing they cannot be deceived, it is impossible to convince them when they are deceived.)
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To: American Constitutionalist

I miss our he-men.....If they’re pretty boys I don’t date them...rule of thumb!

Hey did you see that photo of BiBi from his youth? Definately a wow guy!


91 posted on 04/21/2010 9:39:05 PM PDT by caww
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To: American Constitutionalist

Are you a guy or gal?....no offense on the BiBi photo if you’re a guy...


92 posted on 04/21/2010 9:42:14 PM PDT by caww
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To: caww

guy


93 posted on 04/21/2010 9:43:28 PM PDT by American Constitutionalist (There is no civility in the way the Communist/Marxist want to destroy the USA)
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To: Windflier
Eye of Yalla Yokel anyone?

I just call it "Fred."

94 posted on 04/21/2010 9:47:33 PM PDT by IYAS9YAS (The townhalls were going great until the oPods showed up.)
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To: GonzoGOP

And that is all the 2 penny theology I’m going to come up with today.


Well, your 2 penny theology is pretty darned good. Thank you!


95 posted on 04/21/2010 9:47:35 PM PDT by unkus
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To: TSgt

Easier to pronounce was my first thought too.

Thanks to the first Icelandic volcano and rumors of the next one, an annoying relative is now braying that maybe the 2012 predictions are right after all. I thought about cluing her to the Yellowstone Supervolcano just to give her something to really worry about but decided to save that until I needed to keep her really busy.


96 posted on 04/21/2010 9:48:27 PM PDT by Let's Roll (Stop paying ACORN to destroy America! Cut off their federal funding!)
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To: mylife

But will the people look away from their Iphones long enough to notice?


Good point.


97 posted on 04/21/2010 9:49:00 PM PDT by unkus
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To: Nachum

The Iceland volcano problem could be solved in a heartbeat if we send in the Marines.

We all learned just a few days ago by a Democrat Congressman, so much smarter than us, that if you put too many Marines on an Island, it will capsize. Iceland is an Island.

See where I’m going here?

Iceland needs to be capsized. That will extinguish the Volcano and it will never again be a problem. I even got a pithy operation name for it. G.I. Joe versus the Volcano.


98 posted on 04/21/2010 9:51:13 PM PDT by NavyCanDo
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To: editor-surveyor

The Pious is a rolling pile of hazardous waste!
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You’re darned right they are. Hazmat is on the scene of every accident.


99 posted on 04/21/2010 9:51:37 PM PDT by unkus
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To: GonzoGOP
"A volcano cannot be appeased by throwing it virgins, and it can't be appeased by driving a Toyota Prius."

..... but can the volcano be appeased by sacrificing the Toyota Prius? Until we throw a lot of cars into that volcano we just won't *know*
100 posted on 04/21/2010 9:52:42 PM PDT by Enchante (Obama and Brennan think that 20% of terrorists re-joining the battle is just fine with them)
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