Krakatoa and Eyjafjallajokull: Should Al Gore Be Worried?

The New American ^ | 5/17/2010 | Sam Blumenfeld

[GonzoGOP]

I wish that was on youtube.

Krakatoa was one of those things that if you were close enough to see it, you were too darn close. It blew the entire island below sea level. The island has grown back since then, but not to its original height. Of course it will go off again. The lava chamber is refilling and once it gets full Krakatoa II the sequel will become inevitable.

Of course showing a little American pride Yellowstone is a much bigger doomsday volcano than Krakatoa. When Yellowstone fires off again (600,000 year cycle, last eruption about 600,000 years ago) it will be a hard time for humanity for a few years. However Lake Toba, Sumatra, Indonesia, is the big winner. It can dump twice the volume of Yellowstone into the atmosphere. Its last blast 74,000 years ago almost took out humanity completely.

[BlazingArizona]

“It’s at least 10 degrees below normal in the SF Bay Area right now and raining. Normally by mid-May, the rains have stopped for the summer season (dry until late October) and we’ve had a couple of 90 - 100 degree hot spells. I wonder how long it takes the ash to have its effects.”

Almost June, and it’s cold today. In Arizona. The heat must be boycotting us.

[barb-tex]

Didn’t Pinatubo cause a measurable effect on temperature,we could see the ash at sunrise in SE Texas. There is an article in WND daily today predicting the thr next little ice age which will do real damage, unlike GW. We did not cause it and we can not stop it.
barbra ann

[GregB]

Yes it usually follows.

[ohioman]

You got that right. The only eruption in the past 200 hundred years stronger than Krakatoa was Tambora, which was the strongest eruption in recorded history. Currently, Eyjaf is more like Mt. St. Helems when it comes to the affects on Weather, very minimal. Of course that could change since the eruption is still ongoing.

[ohioman]

Yellowstone’s most powerful historical blast is comparable to the Toba blast 75,000 years ago - both god-awful VEI 8 eruptions.

[Clive]

Here is the solution to global warming.

Mount a Manhattan District style project to learn how to provoke major pyroclastic volcano eruptions.

The adverse economic effects would be serious, as witnessed by the effect on air transportion in Europe, but it would be less severe than the wholesale economic disruption of commerce contemplated by current "cap and trade" conventional wisdom.