Posted on 04/18/2010 7:25:41 PM PDT by blam
Coming To America: The Big Volcanic Ash Plume
Joe Weisenthal
Apr. 18, 2010, 9:53 PM
The latest images from the London Met Office, via AshAlerts.com, show the ash cloud extending in the direction of North America. No clue yet on whether it will be disruptive. It's certainly something to watch though.
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Only humans are capable of such “global” impact.
If Al Gore wants to impress me, he should stop the volcano.
The reason I ask, is because it will be traveling over water. Won't that make a difference?
Help, someone call ALGORE! He has been spouting fumes for years, he should know how to deal with it!
He's lour first blak messiah.
Remember those styrofoam pillars?
Why would that make any difference?
Very interesting. Thanks for the Post.
no dems
From those quack scientists at the Met Office
Yes it will be a big nothing if it ever gets here. If it persists it might lower world temperatures a degree more or less
Bush’s fault.
Why would water stop it, other historic erruptions literally circled the globe with their ash plumes... that it might come here on the jet stream doesn’t shock me, they’ve already said if this goes in for a while it will affect our summer growing seasons throughout the northern hemisphere.
Being over water won’t make any difference. The ash is going to circle the globe, first in the northern hemisphere and then spreading south. It takes a long time for rainfall to wash the ash out of the atmosphere. The question is when will it be diluted enough to not pose a threat to aircraft engines.
A huge eruption of Mt. Tamora (in modern day Indonesia) in April 1815 led to wide spread crop failure and famine a year later.
“Get the canned goods, get the toilet paper, you know we need it!”
Whoa! A year later there was a famine?
What else can go wrong for the U.S.?
Never mind. Don’t tell me ... .
Rain typically clenses the air. This iw why I asked about it travelling over water. There will be rainy days out there too! Someone else just said it wouldn’t matter.
“Yes it will be a big nothing if it ever gets here. If it persists it might lower world temperatures a degree more or less.”
That would ruin the gloBULL warming impact. LOL!
I hope it turns out to be nothing.
I am wondering if substantial amounts of ash will get into the Polar Jet Stream. A peculiarity of the Jet Stream is that, as it passes over North America, it suddenly “dumps” particulates over about the Kansas area.
This is why we wanted the nuclear atmospheric test ban, because one of the radioactive particles, Strontium 90, would be carried by the Jet Stream and end up right in our breadbasket, where it would land on grasses, and quickly be detected in milk.
And while volcanic ash would not be as harmful, it might still be a serious annoyance.
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