Posted on 04/19/2010 5:58:49 PM PDT by raptor22
Science: An Icelandic scientist says climate change spurs volcanic eruptions such as the one disrupting air traffic in Europe. Rather, the evidence suggests volcanoes cause global cooling and Arctic ice to melt.
The stunning eruption of a volcano under Iceland's Eyjafjallajokull glacier has disrupted air traffic over the continent of Europe as vast plumes of steam and ash were spewed into the atmosphere. Once again, we witness the power of nature over man even as man blames himself for nature's acts.
Almost every malady on earth has been blamed on global warming, so it wasn't all that surprising when Freysteinn Sigmundsson, a volcanologist at the University of Iceland, and Carolina Pagli, a geophysicist at the University of Leeds, blamed the Icelandic eruption on man-made climate change.
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Maybe the eruption was caused when someone in Iceland played a DVD of An Incontinent Goof, er, An Inconvenient Doof. Whatever, you get the idea. Anyway, I know I always feel like I'm going to explode when I hear Big Al blathering.
Not only were they drilling in Iceland, they are currently drilling the world's deepest geothermal well. The goal is to drill it to 4,500 meters to locate and potentially utilize supercritical water for energy production.
Links:
IDDP Krafla - the next phase
Iceland Deep Drilling Project Finds Magma
They can stop now.
I’ll say. 4500 meters is about 15,000 feet. That’s one hell of a deep hole.
European airline pilots warn governments about engine failures caused by ash amid pressure to get flights moving again
Pilots warn against ‘rash’ decisions to allow flights through the volcanic ash cloud amid pressure to get flights started again. Photograph: Gonzalo Fuentes/Reuters
European airline pilots warned governments and safety regulators today against making "rash" decisions to allow planes to fly through volcanic ash clouds amid growing pressure from airlines across Europe to create "safe flying corridors" to get flights moving again.
The pilots' intervention came as air traffic controllers dashed hopes that flights would resume from London Heathrow, Gatwick and Stansted this evening by announcing that most UK airspace would remain closed until 1am tomorrow. Airlines said the restrictions, which meant only a few flights took off from airports in Scotland and northern England, were an over-reaction.
BA announced tonight it was cancelling all flights until midday tomorrow.
The UK's air safety watchdog, the Civil Aviation Authority, is holding meetings with national air traffic controllers, airline executives and Lord Adonis, the transport secretary, to discuss flying through zones with small amounts of ash. But the European Cockpit Association, told the Guardian today that any attempts to establish "safe flying corridors" through airspace where ash was present should not be rushed.
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Yup. They have a lie to propagate. Don’t want science, true science that is, to get in the way.
Carolina, Al baby: God just isn't that into you, ok?
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