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Volcano Spews More Ash, Spawns Wider Flight Chaos
AP/Yahoo ^ | 4-17-2010 | Paisley Dodds

Posted on 04/17/2010 6:08:49 AM PDT by blam

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To: exit82
I thought of this also. Ash in the atmosphere block the sun, earth cools, no more globull warming. Sounds like a plan to me, same one the earth has always used.
81 posted on 04/17/2010 7:01:24 AM PDT by Ditter
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To: blam

The face of the man-bear-pig!

82 posted on 04/17/2010 7:02:19 AM PDT by IbJensen ((Ps 109.8): "Let his days be few; and let another take his position.")
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To: Quix
The Dark Ages: Were They Darker Than We Imagined?

"Let's first look at the onset of "the" Dark Ages in the sixth century AD. The Roman Empire was finished, nothing was happening in the sciences, and worse was happening in nature. The Italian historian Flavius Cassiodorus wrote about conditions that he experienced during the year AD 536 :"

"The Sun...seems to have lost its wonted light, and appears of a bluish colour. We marvel to see no shadows of our bodies at noon, to feel the mighty vigour of the Sun's heat wasted into feebleness, and the phenomena which accompany an eclipse prolonged through almost a whole year. We have had a summer without heat. The crops have been chilled by north winds, [and] the rain is denied." Other writers of the time described similar conditions : Procopius : "...during this year a most dread portent took place. For the Sun gave forth its light without brightness...and it seemed exceedingly like the Sun in eclipse, for the beams it shed were not clear." Lydus : "The Sun became dim...for nearly the whole year...so that the fruits were killed at an unseasonable time."

Michael the Syrian : "The Sun became dark and its darkness lasted for eighteen months. Each day it shone for about four hours, and still this light was only a feeble shadow...the fruits did not ripen and the wine tasted like sour grapes."

83 posted on 04/17/2010 7:02:29 AM PDT by blam
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To: blam

Song for Eyjafjallajokull volcano

 

Oh the weather outside is frightful, 
But the fire is so delightful,
And since we've no place to go,
Let It Spew! Let It Spew! Let It Spew!

It doesn't show signs of stopping,
And I've bought some corn for popping,
The lights are turned way down low,
Let It Spew! Let It Spew! Let It Spew!

When we finally kiss goodnight,
How I'll hate going out in the storm!
But if you'll really hold me tight,
All the way home I'll be warm.

The fire is slowly dying,
And, my dear, we're still good-bying,
But as long as you love me so,
Let It Spew! Let It Spew! Let It Spew!  

84 posted on 04/17/2010 7:03:42 AM PDT by dennisw (It all comes 'round again --Fairport)
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To: Ditter; exit82

This natural phenomenon was what the ‘Dark Ages’ was all about.


85 posted on 04/17/2010 7:03:59 AM PDT by IbJensen ((Ps 109.8): "Let his days be few; and let another take his position.")
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To: blam

There is also a chance that a horizontal sheet of magma under Eyjafjallajokull could shoot out and enter a magma chamber beneath Katla. Hitting the roots of its neighbor would almost certainly trigger an eruption.

The three eruptions of Eyjafjallajokull on record were each associated with a subsequent eruption of Katla. There are no signs of turbulence beneath Katla but, since it last erupted in 1918, a new blast is overdue. Katla tends to erupt every 40 to 80 years.

“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,” said Pall Einarsson, a geophysicist at the University of Iceland.

http://www.myfoxorlando.com/dpps/news/dpgonc-scientists-iceland-volcanos-big-sister-poses-real-threat-fc-20100416_7095834


86 posted on 04/17/2010 7:04:13 AM PDT by EBH (Our First Right...."it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it,")
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To: winoneforthegipper

Interesting.

Thx.


87 posted on 04/17/2010 7:05:39 AM PDT by Quix (BLOKES who got us where we R: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2130557/posts?page=81#81)
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To: hoosiermama

Looks like my kinda music.


88 posted on 04/17/2010 7:05:50 AM PDT by Mercat
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To: blam

Sobering.

Thx.


89 posted on 04/17/2010 7:07:15 AM PDT by Quix (BLOKES who got us where we R: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2130557/posts?page=81#81)
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To: blam
The Dark Ages: Were They Darker Than We Imagined?

That's when Krakatoa blew up?

90 posted on 04/17/2010 7:07:48 AM PDT by Wissa (Gone Galt)
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To: hoosiermama

Reminds me of The Wilders which is from our neck of the woods. Also, my son plays often with Crooked Jades and Jonathan Edwards, both do some old timey stuff.


91 posted on 04/17/2010 7:08:23 AM PDT by Mercat
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To: ncfool
Why can they just borrow the big Monty Python foot and have it squash the volcano?


92 posted on 04/17/2010 7:08:44 AM PDT by Lockbar (March toward the sound of the guns.)
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To: NavyCanDo

I’m an airline pilot (currently grounded in Europe) and if this continues for a couple of weeks I’m afraid we’ll be out of business.


93 posted on 04/17/2010 7:08:57 AM PDT by saganite (What happens to taglines? Is there a termination date?)
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To: saganite

Which airline?


94 posted on 04/17/2010 7:10:51 AM PDT by John W
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To: Wissa
"That's when Krakatoa blew up?"

No. Read the article in post #83. A celestial impact?

95 posted on 04/17/2010 7:11:39 AM PDT by blam
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To: EBH

well, the world didn’t end in 1918 or earlier epochs of our recorded histroy, even though there were lots of disasters and suffering and life changing events.

Let’s hope despite the Mayan/Hopi and other calendars, this age isn’t coming to an end either.

Otherwise, dayum.
All those social security payments...wasted


96 posted on 04/17/2010 7:14:28 AM PDT by silverleaf (Karl Marx was NOT one of America's Founding Fathers)
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To: I_Like_Spam

I read elsewhere that the last time this volcano erupted it went on for a year, from late 1821-1823. Of course, no airplanes in those days!

Also, there is a much bigger volcano which could be triggered to erupt by this one and if that happens we’ll have some global cooling for sure.

What would happen if no planes could fly to Europe for a year?


97 posted on 04/17/2010 7:18:01 AM PDT by jocon307 (It's the spending, stupid.)
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To: blam

Seems like I saw a show on TV recently where they were saying the ice core data shows the 535 AD Krakatoa event was WAY bigger than the 1883 eruption.


98 posted on 04/17/2010 7:18:35 AM PDT by Wissa (Gone Galt)
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To: Wissa
the scream

a radar image of the volcanic crater appears to show a nightmarish face, which is reminscent of Edvard Munch's painting 'The Scream.' Coincidentally, it is thought that the masterpiece was inspired by the blood red skies caused by the powerful volcanic eruption of Krakatoa in 1883. In his diary Mr Munch wrote: 'I was walking along a path with two friends - the sun was setting - suddenly the sky turned blood red - I paused, feeling exhausted, and leaned on the fence - there was blood and tongues of fire above the blue-black fjord and the city - my friends walked on, and I stood there trembling with anxiety - and I sensed an infinite scream passing through nature.'

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1266403/Iceland-volcano-space-The-dramatic-ash-plume-engulfing-Britain-seen-above.html#ixzz0lGaXB7Lp
99 posted on 04/17/2010 7:19:07 AM PDT by silverleaf (Karl Marx was NOT one of America's Founding Fathers)
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To: MississippiMan

Interesting blog MM, good work.


100 posted on 04/17/2010 7:20:21 AM PDT by brushcop (SFC Sallie, CPL Long, LTHarris, SSG Brown, PVT Simmons KIA OIF lll&V, they died for you, honor them)
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