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“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.

Go read it:

Wake Up People: This Volcano Is About More Than Flights, It's About Agriculture, Energy, And Politics

" Iceland's Laki volcano erupted in 1783, freeing gases that turned into smog. The smog floated across the Jet Stream, changing weather patterns. Many died from gas poisoning in the British Isles. Crop production fell in western Europe. Famine spread. . . . . . ."

"The winter of 1784 was also one of the longest and coldest on record in North America. New England reported a record stretch of below-zero temperatures and New Jersey reported record snow accumulation. The Mississippi River also reportedly froze in New Orleans."

It's a big nothing over Europe, too, although northern Europe is symmetrically situated with Labrador. New York compares to southern Italy.

There's an article, Iceland volcano: Why a cloud of ash has grounded flights which describes the June 1982 incident of a BA 747 barely surviving an encounter with an ash cloud from an eruption of Gallunggung in West Java.

I think this comparison is ridiculous. Gallungung erupted for months during 1982-83, and it was in an "explosive phase" throughout late 1982, and this BA flight got caught in one of them completely unawares. Now how big was this eruption? I assume it was tens or a hundred times the current Icelandic outburst. I feel quite sure that the density of ash encountered was hundreds or even thousands of times the densities anywhere over Europe.

That's the trouble with all this reporting, it's completely subjective and qualitative. It's like watching a bad science fiction movie. They illustrate text about the "ash cloud" over Europe with shots of the volcano proper, and ash fallout over Iceland.

The cited article states, "The plume is so high that it will neither be visible nor pose a threat to the health of humans on the ground." It's so high you can't see it! Kind of like the moon.

In addition, I think the actions of the authorities are cautious in the extreme, although certainly not groundless. Just look at the pushback they are getting from the airlines.