Iceland prepares for second, more devastating volcanic eruption-Northern Hemisphere Cooling?

Times Online (UK) ^ | March 21, 2010 | Roger Boyes

[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.

[Frantzie]

Poor Iceland.

[dfwgator]

Maybe they should rename it to ‘Fireland.’

[BCR #226]

Beautiful pics of the eruption but oh so dangerous. Prayers out for the people in Iceland.

[mlocher]

Another spate of bad news for Iceland. Prayers to them.

[patton]

“Eyjafjallajokull:

“I laf ha ha joke you’all”?

[Mamzelle]

Ash into atmosphere, long winters, crop failures.

[dcrider182]

Our All Mighty God is already pissed.

[dcrider182]

Our All Mighty God is already pissed.

[Nowhere Man]

Don’t worry, Obama will make it all better. /sarc>

[Strategerist]

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.

[dfwgator]

Or, it’s the result of a magma plume that intersects with a plate boundary.

That's 'liquid, hot, mag-mah!'

[The Antiyuppie]

Worse, Iceland’s volcanoes are unusually “dirty” in gas and ash, unlike Hawaii’s.

[blam]

"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

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

History channel video clips ,...4 & 5 get into how the eroption in 1700 cause severe problems around the globe....“How the Earth Was Made”

Thanks to yield 2 the right for posting the links.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

eruption in the late 1700's

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

See link at #16.

[yield 2 the right]

Welcome.

[PapaBear3625]

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.