Posted on 04/18/2010 1:07:10 PM PDT by blam
Wake Up People This Volcano Is About More Than Flights, It's About Agriculture, Energy, And Politics
The Oil Drum
Apr. 18, 2010, 10:53 AM
While it is early in the morning in Europe the following picture shows the impact of the volcano in Iceland on European air traffic (as of Thursday), if you compare Northern (none) and Southern (60) European flights. The blue crosses are airports. The volcano has already had a stunning impact on Europe, although articles about it are already dropping below the lead headlines.
There is a thought that the plume may last another five days, and even though the cloud is largely invisible to those who are being impacted by it, the damage by neglecting these precautions could be severe. And given that the British election is on May 6th, the impact of a sustained eruption on the debates in the UK, and the result may go beyond just limiting the travel of those who would campaign, to become more dominant with the length of the flight curtailments and the responses to help resolve what are likely to be growing transportation problems.
The presence of sulphur dioxide is already obvious to local residents, though there don't appear to be any concerns over its toxicity. This is the toxicity information given by gasdetection.com:
WITH ACUTE EXPOSURE, 5 PPM CAUSES DRYNESS OF NOSE & THROAT AND A MEASUREABLE INCR IN RESISTANCE TO BRONCHIAL AIR FLOW; 6 TO 8 PPM CAUSES A DECR IN TIDAL RESP VOLUME. SNEEZING, COUGH & EYE IRRITATION OCCUR AT 10 PPM; 20 PPM CAUSED BRONCHOSPASM; 50 PPM CAUSES EXTREME DISCOMFORT BUT NO INJURY IN LESS THAN A 30-MIN EXPOSURE ... 1000 PPM CAUSES DEATH IN FROM 10 MIN TO SEVERAL HR BY RESP DEPRESSION.
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"Mississippi River freezing at New Orleans"?
Might fix global warming.
If an eruption lasts longer than four hours, contact your doctor.
The soot over the Arctic ice could cause rapid melting.
This is weird, we could see melting along the north and more freezing in the south. Now the Pole Flipping theory will resurface, especially if people hop up and down in Guam. But seriously ....
lol :)
We are heading into a nuclear winter from which will we not come out of. Call your mom, tell her you love her, it’s all over. The ice man cometh ...
Not me I’m goin lootin.
Volcano from space: ‘Nightmarish face’ seen from above...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1266403/Iceland-volcano-space-The-dramatic-ash-plume-engulfing-Britain-seen-above.html
Kent Brockman: Doctor, without knowing the reason for the panic, would you say it’s time for viewers to crack open each other’s heads and feast on the goo inside?
Doctor: Yes I would, Kent.
As long as there are fat, out of shape, unarmed liberals, nobody in my house will go hungry. :-)
Yah, not many are mentioning that poison gas thing ... or the toxic fluoride in the soil and water.
Lucky for us the winds blow east, but what goes around eventually comes around!
Well, you know that even if all that is true - nothing we can do about it. Mother Nature seems to have its way whether we like it or not (which is why the global warming nonsense is just that).
Wow. What a major panic. Chock full of what if’s and possibilities. Someone needs to take a chill pill....
Hopefully they’ll get a suitable punishment for 90 year of pure barbarity.
No way---it was CAUSED BY GLOBAL WARMING
I hope I didn’t set my neighbor’s house on fire for nothing.
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