Volcano erupts in Chile, covering area in ash

Telegraph.co.uk ^ | 2 January, 2008 | Matthew Moore and agencies

[IM2MAD]

Who’s buying the carbon credits for this thing?

[StormEye]

"so how much effect does this have on global warming?
Bush’s fault.

Global Warming is always AL GORES fault!

[exit82]

Ash alert! Ash alert!

Gosh, I’ve always wanted to say that.

(P.S. Hint: Freeper lore)

[lexington minuteman 1775]

Isn’t “Chili Volcano” an oxymoron? LOL!

[brityank]

Be careful, or you'll pull Don Morgan out of the brambles!

;^)

[null and void]

Dunno. Some of those chilis can be pretty hot...

[Don Corleone]

Do we have volcanism in Iowa? That whole state is covered with ashes /sp?

/snic

[feedback doctor]

so how much effect does this have on global warming?

I hear it put out a lot of CO2. In fact, it would only take 17.43 of these eruptions to equal Al Gore's monthly carbon footprint.

[lexington minuteman 1775]

We really do need a life...lol. But politics was wearing me out.

[null and void]

*sigh* This is my life...

[Loud Mime]

Chili has cool volcanoes

[UCANSEE2]

“While there are not that many molecules of any one given element packed in any one place”

That is not necessarily true.

I would like to compliment you for explaining the vulcanic nature of the Earth in laymen’s terms.

Good communication is having everyone getting a ‘picture’ in their head.

Great communication is having everyone getting the same ‘picture’.

You did great!

[UCANSEE2]

“Current theory is that we were reduced to a few 10s of thousands, causing an evolutionary bottleneck.”

You would think that an evolutionary bottleneck might be a good thing.

Wonder what it would have been like without it?

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks brityank.

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[gleeaikin]

Actually, an additional factor in the heat balance of the earth is the production of heat by nuclear forces in the earth’s interior. The heat loss was a big unsolved question to scientists and mathematicians until nuclear energy was discovered.

Barringer Crater in Arizona was 50,000 years ago. Anyone have information on effects from that? Toba caused a bottleneck in population that I read was as few as 5 to 10,000 humans.

Llaima is one of Chile’s two most active volcanos (the other is Villarrica). It had at least 32 VEI 3 eruptions in the 20th Century, the last in 1988. It had a VEI 4 in 1640 (VEI=Volcanic Explosivity Index). [Source- “Encyclopedia of Volcanoes”, Sigurdsson, 2000]

[blam]

"Toba caused a bottleneck in population that I read was as few as 5 to 10,000 humans."

See post #15.