To: IbJensen
The eruption of Iceland’s Eyjafjallajokull (I-jaf-jalla-jokull) volcano on April 14, 2010, is being compared to Krakatoa’s famous eruption on August 27, 1883 which had a great effect on weather patterns for the next few months.
Like comparing a .22 to a 16" Naval Gun. Eyjafjallajokull is an average every day volcano. Krakatoa was a full off caldera blast. It blew 21 cubic kilometres of ash into the stratsophere over a very short period of time. I'm not saying that Eyjafjallajokull can't screw up the weather. Mount Pniatubo(SP) in the Philippines certainly did and it was similar to Eyjafjallajokull. But Krakatoa’s 1883 blast was in a different category.
3 posted on
05/18/2010 4:50:14 AM PDT by
GonzoGOP
(There are millions of paranoid people in the world and they are all out to get me.)
To: GonzoGOP
Your sound like an intelligent man, Gonzo.
What do you think the Dark Ages were all about?
6 posted on
05/18/2010 5:02:23 AM PDT by
IbJensen
((Ps 109.8): "Let his days be few; and let another take his position.")
To: GonzoGOP
“Krakatoa was a full off caldera blast. It blew 21 cubic kilometres of ash into the stratsophere over a very short period of time.”
I wish that was on youtube.
17 posted on
05/18/2010 5:56:15 AM PDT by
Flightdeck
(TANSTAAFL!)
To: GonzoGOP
You got that right. The only eruption in the past 200 hundred years stronger than Krakatoa was Tambora, which was the strongest eruption in recorded history. Currently, Eyjaf is more like Mt. St. Helems when it comes to the affects on Weather, very minimal. Of course that could change since the eruption is still ongoing.
25 posted on
05/18/2010 7:07:14 AM PDT by
ohioman
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