Gaia is angry (you would be too, if you looked that much like Nancy Pelosi).
Posted on 04/14/2010 7:56:14 AM PDT by VU4G10
This eruption is actually under the Glacier that sits on top of the volcano.
http://www.dv.is/media/news/story/image/mynd_r_tf_sif_jpg_610x400_q95.jpg
Flight level picture.
While last months eruptive period was more of a sightseeing episode, the eruption yesterday poses a dramatic seen changing scenario for sure.
poor Algor, can’t catch a break, can he?
Nature IS a mother!
Gaia is angry (you would be too, if you looked that much like Nancy Pelosi).
Wow, talk about your visual excitement.
Thanks.
You are correct in that that eruption could have been more serious as well as Eyjaf’s today.
Depends on the magma intrusion and if it continues, indications are that at present it is unabated.
ROFL. Great. Hilarious. First good laugh of the day. Thanks.
No, Bjork’s fault.
“my sister Eyjafjallajokull.”
Was she bitten by a moose?
The Gods of the Copybook Headings
AS I PASS through my incarnations in every age and race,
I make my proper prostrations to the Gods of the Market Place.
Peering through reverent fingers I watch them flourish and fall,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings, I notice, outlast them all.
We were living in trees when they met us. They showed us each in turn
That Water would certainly wet us, as Fire would certainly burn:
But we found them lacking in Uplift, Vision and Breadth of Mind,
So we left them to teach the Gorillas while we followed the March of Mankind.
We moved as the Spirit listed. They never altered their pace,
Being neither cloud nor wind-borne like the Gods of the Market Place,
But they always caught up with our progress, and presently word would come
That a tribe had been wiped off its icefield, or the lights had gone out in Rome.
With the Hopes that our World is built on they were utterly out of touch,
They denied that the Moon was Stilton; they denied she was even Dutch;
They denied that Wishes were Horses; they denied that a Pig had Wings;
So we worshipped the Gods of the Market Who promised these beautiful things.
When the Cambrian measures were forming, They promised perpetual peace.
They swore, if we gave them our weapons, that the wars of the tribes would cease.
But when we disarmed They sold us and delivered us bound to our foe,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: “Stick to the Devil you know.”
On the first Feminian Sandstones we were promised the Fuller Life
(Which started by loving our neighbour and ended by loving his wife)
Till our women had no more children and the men lost reason and faith,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: “The Wages of Sin is Death.”
In the Carboniferous Epoch we were promised abundance for all,
By robbing selected Peter to pay for collective Paul;
But, though we had plenty of money, there was nothing our money could buy,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: “If you don't work you die.”
Then the Gods of the Market tumbled, and their smooth-tongued wizards withdrew
And the hearts of the meanest were humbled and began to believe it was true
That All is not Gold that Glitters, and Two and Two make Four
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings limped up to explain it once more.
As it will be in the future, it was at the birth of Man
There are only four things certain since Social Progress began.
That the Dog returns to his Vomit and the Sow returns to her Mire,
And the burnt Fool's bandaged finger goes wabbling back to the Fire;
And that after this is accomplished, and the brave new world begins
When all men are paid for existing and no man must pay for his sins,
As surely as Water will wet us, as surely as Fire will burn,
The Gods of the Copybook Headings with terror and slaughter return!
Kipling
A paper written by Benjamin Franklin in 1783 blamed the unusually cool summer of 1783 on volcanic dust coming from Iceland, where the eruption of Laki volcano had released enormous amounts of sulfur dioxide, resulting in the death of much of the island's livestock and a catastrophic famine which killed a quarter of the population. Temperatures in the northern hemisphere dropped by about 1 °C in the year following the Laki eruption.
This is just not Iceland’s decade.
excellent
Boy! Would I love to see this in person! I’ll bet it’s beautiful.
Thanks for the info.
ping
BTW, Why does this site:
STILL
not show the latest large quake in China???
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.
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I am a little puzzled by this statement. If you have knowledge in this field, could you please explain to me how glacial ice could impede a volcano, as there are so much heat and pressure involved in a volcanic eruption.
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