Posted on 07/31/2009 5:57:04 AM PDT by decimon
Bright orange lava spews up into the air, dark smoke mingles with the clouds and the gloomy night takes on an ominous red glow.
Towering 1,200ft above the tropical stillness of the Sunda Strait in Indonesia, one of the most terrifying volcanoes the world has ever known has begun to stir once more.
Almost 126 years to the day since Krakatoa first showed signs of an imminent eruption, stunning pictures released this week prove that the remnant of this once-enormous volcano is bubbling, boiling and brimming over.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Krak ping.
It better file an environmental impact statement and contact Algore about carbon offsets before it does!
Even better than that is Al Bore can stick is A$$ in it. That way he can brag he saved the world from climate change.
Comment from the site. Freeper in the UK? LOL!
The comment from Jenny Jones of Essex only go`s to show that some people have been totally brainwashed by the “Global Warming” faction.
How would she explain the 1863 explosion?
That couldn`t have been caused by “Global Warming” as it hadn`t been invented then!
Perhaps it was the hole in the ozone layer? But there again that hadn`t been found either!
Time for more taxes methinks, come on gordo now`s your chance.
- Anon, UK, 30/7/2009 16:02
I think Yellowstone will erupt first, and it will be cataclysmic.
Krakatoa is not matured enough, Yellowstone is over due.
It’s worth going to the link just for the pictures - gorgeous!
Well, there goes Indonesia’s carbon credits for the next 50 years...
The mantle over the Yellowstone area is pretty thick, so it won’t being doing very much for a while.
Yellowstone would seem to be much older, no ?
Wow! Imagine what it must have sounded like up close.
Five miles from the coast near the town of Merak, one survivor described the moment the wave hit... 'We saw a great black thing coming towards us. It was very high, and we soon saw that it was water. Trees and houses were washed away...'
Tsunami five miles inland. It must have seemed like the end of the world. For a lot of people it was.
Somehow those pictures sort of remind me of what's happening to society here in America these days. Relatively calm on the surface, but just below the beauty of the scenery is a cauldron waiting to erupt with great force and destruction.
What a photo!
Cool pictures !
I’ve had that pic up as my desktop background for a couple of weeks now. Pretty awesome shot.
The last time Krakatoa had a major eruption average global temperatures in the following year plunged more than a degree. I guess another eruption would wipe out any concerns about global warming for a while.
Just the one you posted is magnificent. Wow!
Colonel, USAFR
But it’s not East of Java m’kay?
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