Posted on 04/17/2010 6:08:49 AM PDT by blam
Volcano Spews More Ash, Spawns Wider Flight Chaos
Associated Press Writer Paisley Dodds
4-17-2010
LONDON – A lingering volcanic ash plume forced extended no-fly restrictions over much of Europe on Saturday, as Icelandic scientists warned that volcanic activity had increased and showed no sign of abating — a portent of more travel chaos to come.
Scientists say that because the volcano is situated below a glacial ice cap, the magma is being cooled quickly, causing explosions and plumes of grit that can be catastrophic to plane engines if prevailing winds are right.
"The activity has been quite vigorous overnight, causing the eruption column to grow," Icelandic geologist Magnus Tumi Gudmundsson told The Associated Press on Saturday. "It's the magma mixing with the water that creates the explosivity. Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be an end in sight."
An expansive cloud of grit hovered over parts of western Europe on Saturday, triggering extended flight bans that stranded people around the globe. Continued volcanic activity could produce more plumes if the weather patterns stay the same.
The Icelandic Meteorological Office said the amount of ash in the plume grew Saturday and that the vast ash cloud is continuing to travel south and southeast. Scientists had planned to fly over the volcano to see how much ice has melted to determine how much longer the eruption could spew ash, but the Icelandic Coast Guard said Saturday's flight had been postponed.
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Ugh! President Biden? No thanks!
Of course, he could take Biden. Isn’t going to foreign funerals a job description for the Vice Presidency?
But if they both go, worse, it would be President Pelosi!
And if she went, President Reid. And if he went, President Clinton (Hilary!).
Just damn!
Only GOD could stop it in that case, but I doubt even then they would turn to HIM. Some would but not most, they are so far gone it is frightening. Maybe a crisis to usher in a man with a plan ????? All Christians need to wake up and start praying.
You will love it I promise.....New album is out in May and being sold now as a presale. Good down home music with a Hoosier beat!
Can’t decide which of the songs is my favorite, but the tunes keep popping up in my head. Happy music!
He got buried by a pyroclastic flow, it was sad.
Ugh! President Biden? No thanks!
I’m just suggesting this isn’t a good idea. Those scenarios aren’t something I’d want to see. Surely cooler heads in the Secret Service will prevail
You may be aware that a certain Catholic prophecy suggests that events of the “Great Chastisement” would begin in 2010. No, I don’t want to get into a C vs. P argument.
I have no idea of how the Roman Catholic church regards the prophecy of Alois Irlmeier, but it’s very striking and memorable. He was Catholic.
I hope the prophecy is WRONG!!! (have to look up that name — I’ve lost track)
Thank you because I looked all through NASA site and came up with nothing.
;->
When is the Fed EPA going to fine Iceland for spewing so many fine particulates into the atmosphere. Just how much carbon dioxide IS being released in this continuing eruption. Huh? Huh? Huh!!!!
Maybe Iceland can buy a few billions in Carbon Credits by going deeper into bankruptcy. Can that happen? Can you go deeper into bankruptcy?
I hope the UN’s IPCC is studying the effect of this anthropogenic discharge from Iceland. You just KNOW man caused this eruption somehow.
Getting serious for a moment, how long does this volcano have to spew ash for us to go into a year or two of massive global cooling? When Tambora blew, if was followed by a “year without a summer”. So how long does Eyjafjallajokull have to go to cause that kind of cooling effect?
Yes, interesting, and cataclysmic for us here in the USA as the sun would be blotted out for many years and most of us on the planet would starve to death — the ones who didn’t freeze to death.
So yes, I would say that would be interesting. In fact, highly interesting. The small handful of survivors might not use that exact phrasing, of course.
Agree, and it will demonstrate conclusively to anyone with a brain that man’s activity is nothing compared to natural causes of world climate varioutions.
Liberals, being for all intents and purposes brainless, will still fail to understand this simple logic and will FEEL that we must do something. Anything.
Liberalism is truly a mental disorder.
A place called “Iceland” should have a lot of ice. My recollection is that Greenland has lots of ice, and Iceland is more green. Just one of those strange things.
Now if all the ice in Greenland melted, I think we would see some dramatic changes. But Iceland is not nearly as icy as Greenland, so I would not expect a measurable change in sea levels.
Well, that is good to know. Thanks.
How soon before the Mayan 2012 doomer cult picks up on this event and runs with it?
That has to be one of the most stupid theories I have ever heard of.
The article states that a lack of ice will “awaken” volcanoes. Logic shows otherwise. Just what is the temperature and especially the weight experienced at the bottom of the ocean? And yet we constantly see volcanic eruptions at the bottom of the frigid ocean under an unimaginable weight of water.
Complete idiocy. The article is complete idiocy. Volcanoes and earthquakes, like the rest of earth’s activity, occurs to its own time clock. We have nothing to do with it and the weight/temperature of ice on a volcano has nothing to do with it.
Sheer idiocy.
No, I take that back. Pure propaganda — green libtard socialist commie propaganda. Even they can’t be stupid enough to believe this obvious lie.
I doubt it, said the Carpenter, and shed a bitter tear.”
The earth does what it does and is many orders of magnitude more powerful than man. God is infinitely more powerful than our earth.
God gave us the animals an the plants of the earth to exploit and so we have some power over them. But as a whole, we pale in comparison to the power of the earth.
People who believe in and worship God appreciate this. Know this. The atheists and godless libtards whose religion is abortion or the environment or communism, are incapable of understanding this except through a very strong 1st hand lesson. They will get one if this volcano goes on for long.
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