SAVE THE POLAR BEARZ!
Posted on 04/14/2010 7:56:14 AM PDT by VU4G10
A volcano under a glacier in Iceland erupted Wednesday for the second time in less than a month, melting ice, shooting smoke and steam into the air, closing a major road and forcing hundreds of people to flee rising floodwaters.
Authorities evacuated 800 residents from around the Eyjafjallajokull glacier as rivers rose by up to 10 feet (3 meters).
Emergency officials and scientists said the eruption under the ice cap was 10 to 20 times more powerful than one last month, and carried a much greater risk of widespread flooding.
"This is a very much more violent eruption, because it's interacting with ice and water," said Andy Russell, an expert in glacial flooding at the University of Newcastle in northern England. "It becomes much more explosive, instead of a nice lava flow oozing out of the ground."
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Bush’s fault.
SAVE THE POLAR BEARZ!
ping to foreign press coverage.
Global Warming!
/mark
yeah
But from the inside out!
“A bigger worry is Katla, which in the past has erupted in tandem with Eyjafjallajokull.
Katla is located under the vast Myrdalsjokull ice cap. An eruption could cause widespread flooding and disrupt air traffic between Europe and North America.
The last major eruption took place in 1918, and vulcanologists say a new blast is overdue.
“So far there have been no signs of the reawakening of the Katla volcano, but a lot of things can still happen, so we are monitoring it quite closely,” Einarsson said.”
Katla ALWAYS erupts sometime after the current volcano erupts. It has the potential to cause great global cooling, not mentioned in the article. A search on Katla will provide more information.
How will they get their carbon tax now.
My parents actually named my sister Eyjafjallajokull.
Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I’ve tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.
Robert Frost
http://www.sott.net/articles/show/205542-Global-cooling-What-happens-if-the-Iceland-volcano-blows
“The potential eruption of Iceland’s volcano Katla would likely send the world, including the USA, into an extended deep freeze.
“When Katla went off in the 1700s, the USA suffered a very cold winter,” says Gary Hufford, a scientist with the Alaska Region of the National Weather Service. “To the point, the Mississippi River froze just north of New Orleans and the East Coast, especially New England, had an extremely cold winter.
“Depending on a new eruption, Katla could cause some serious weather changes.”
Eyjafjallajokull, the Icelandic volcano that has continued to belch lava, ash and steam since first erupting last weekend, isn’t the direct problem. It’s Katla, the noisier neighbor, that’s the concern. If lava flowing from Eyjafjallajokull melts the glaciers that hold down the top of Katla, then Katla could blow its top, pumping gigantic amounts of ash into the atmosphere.
Scientists say history has proven that whenever the Eyjafjallajokull volcano erupts, Katla always follows — the only question is how soon.
“If it (Eyjafjallajokull) continues to belch, then you worry,” says Hufford.
What’s key in having volcanic eruptions affect the weather is both the duration of the eruption, and how high the ash gets blasted into the stratosphere, according to Hufford.
For example, he says, Mount Pinatubo pumped ash for two days in 1991, and spewed it 70,000 feet into the stratosphere. This dropped temperatures worldwide about four degrees for about a year.
“When volcanic ash reaches the stratosphere, it remains for a long time,” reports Hufford. “The ash becomes a very effective block of the incoming solar radiation, thus cooling the atmosphere’s temperatures.”
Mt. Pinatubo released more CARBON DIOXIDE than the entire Western Industrial Revolution from 1840 to the present.
Undersea volcanoes are estimated at over 3 million with 200,000 identified, and 30,000 of those are active. Acidification of the ocean is from this cause, and warming of oceans from volcanic activity is a currently unmeasurable, but real phenomenon.
I am a firm believer that the Earth will fix it's self. The atmosphere gets a little out of whack, we have an extra active hurricane season. The CO2 levels get lower, we have a couple of major volcanic eruptions. Of course I am basing this on 0% fact, and just my uneducated observation.
Pronounce it. I dare ya!
Almost like some Designer created a closed system that always self balances isn’t it?
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