Yep, It's always sumthin...................
Posted on 08/18/2014 9:58:16 AM PDT by blam
August 18, 2014
Myles Udland
There's a (increased) chance a huge volcano in Iceland could blow.
Lorcan Roche Kelly at Agenda Research tipped us off to the news that the Icelandic government on Monday changed the status of Bardarbunga, a volcano in Iceland located under Europe's largest glacier, to "orange," meaning there is a heightened risk of eruption and ash cloud.
A report from Reuters on Monday noted that this is the second-highest risk level on the government's five-level risk scale.
"Presently there are no signs of eruption, but it cannot be excluded that the current activity will result in an explosive subglacial eruption, leading to an outburst flood and ash emission," said Iceland's Met Office.
Kelly noted, however, that Bardarbunga sits under 700m of ice, or nearly half a mile's worth, and to break through this an eruption would have to be quite massive.
Reuters noted that the 2010 eruption of Iceland's Eyjafjallajokull volcano affected more than 10 million air travelers in Europe and cost $1.7 billion.
Kelly runs through a few scenarios if Bardarbunga erupts. Though, of course, we are still very much in the "if" stage.
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(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...
Oh yes it will!
Great name for a punk band....
Those Norwegian Muslims want their own country. This is the perfect spot.
Yep, It's always sumthin...................
That would be: "Explosive Subcolonic Eruption"
Bardarbunga, dude!
Global Warming hasn’t been in the news for over a week now.
That’s gotta be the cause.
Seriously, prayers are up for anyone that might be in the path of danger if the thing does blow.
I sprained my tongue pronouncing that, but I read somewhere that Eyjafjallajokull put out more gunk into the air in those few days than all of mankind did in a year.
And than Pinatubo in the Phillippines produced more in a year than all mankind has produced in ALL TIME.
So, the AlGorians can just suck on that.
Finally, some good news!
This is the fourth-lowest risk level on the scale, too.
Cowabunga, Bardarbunga, dude!
Except, in this case, the result would most certainly not be global warming. (”Climate change” for sure — but, not the warming type.)
From the article:
“There is a very small chance that an eruption could be something very much larger, along the scale of the 1783 Laki eruption. In the case of an eruption this size, the major problem would not be flight disruption caused by ash, although that certainly would happen but rather the devastating impact on climate and farming across the northern hemisphere. To give an idea of the scale, some research points to the Laki eruption being a trigger for the French Revolution.”
The Laki eruption is generally credited (but, not by everyone) with causing the extreme winter of 1783-84. I looked that up here:
http://www.livescience.com/30325-iceland-volcano-laki-eruption-cold-winter.html
Bush’s Fault......
Of course.
I was suggesting, semi-facetiously, that someone would blame the CAUSE on GW.
I'll stand by that assertion.
Plenty of firewood, split and stacked.
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