Cancel Christmas?
Reverse the circumstances (volcanos, floods, sunamis, and the Muslims would be screaming this is proof of God’s anger with the west....
Look at all those volcanoes! No wonder there is a shortage of virgins in Indonesia.
No amount of Cap-n-Tax or UN proclamations can stop a volcano.
We can still see the devastation of the Mt. Toba eruption. On the Malay peninsula, many hundreds of miles away and a location with no volcanic activity, the volcanic ash is literally hundreds and hundreds of feet thick. Any kind of similar event will have catastrophic consequences for the entire world.
Dumb question alert!
Remember the volcano that disrupted air traffic months ago? (sorry I don’t remember where it was) There were fears of it’s sister volcano blowing at that time.
Is this anywhere near?
Thanks!
(TOTAL tongue in cheek here folks, BEFORE you go all freaking out... lol)
Looks like the demon under Merapi senses the presence of it’s spiritual brother Sokebarack.
Timing, Merapi demon.... TIMING.
I had no idea this was potentially this bad. Thanks for posting.
not good
Didn’t Krakatoa change the world climate?
When is NObama supposed to be in Indonesia?
bttt
Catastrophism ping.
Bush’s fault...
Volcano ping.
Isn’t this the area of children sex slaves?
Largest volcanic eruption in 400 million years, producing 2.500-3.000 cu. kilometers of ash, and 1 trillion tons of aerosols (including 200,000,000 tons of sulfur dioxide - (SO2).
Cloud was more than 34 kilometers high. Ash covers India between 1 and 6 meters deep. (May have started following cooling period).
6 year period during which the largest amount of volcanic sulphur was deposited in the past 110,000 years, followed by 1000 years of the lowest ice core oxygen isotope ratios, temperatures were colder than during the Last Glacial Maximum at 18-21,000 years ago. Sea level was 160 feet below current.
Global temperature drops average of 21 degrees. Volcanic Winter lasted about six years. It was followed by 1,000 years of the coldest Ice Age on record. Warming begins again 1,000 years later.
It is believed that the 1% human genetic variation stems from this time. No other species shows such a small variation. Genetic evidence suggests only 10,00 human adults survived world wide. May be event which caused rise in modern racial differences - Professor Stanley Ambrose of the University of Illinois.
70,000 B.C. - Lower Pleniglacial Stage
Coldest period. Most of northern Europe and Canada, and southern South America were covered by kilometers thick ice sheets.
1259 A.D. - Very large eruption, Origin Unknown.
Twice the size of the Mt.Tambora eruption in 1815 A.D. - this would make a Volcanic Explosivity Index (VEI) = 8 or more; possibly qualifying as a Super Volcanic Eruption.
Antarctica ice core data; Norwegian tree rings; England and Europe - numerous references to dark skies and unseasonable cold, one obscure reference to pillar of fire in western sky; Chinese reference to pillar of fire in southern sky; Indonesian description - near Krakatau - magma rose in a miles wide column into the troposphere lasting for some days before subsiding, according to references.
National Geographic (TV) ran a piece a year or more back on a group of scientists attempting to verify this eruption with hard evidence. They tried to get to the likely island in Indonesia by small plane, but the turbulence was too severe.
Next they tried by ship. Landing their skiff on a sandy beach, the photographer filmed the surrounding areas while the scientist went to collect rock samples. Suddenly, tremors began and as they increased in severity, everyone rushed back to the skiff and departed.
There was an explosive eruption hurling boulders into the air, narrowly missing their ship as it was underway. When things calmed down, they returned. On the very spot the photographer was filming earlier, there was a 10 foot boulder. Tremors began again.
They left without any samples, just photographs and films, unfortunately proving nothing. It is simply too dangerous an area to study. The truth of the matter will remain a mystery.
1815 A.D. – Mount Tambora Erupts
Volcanic Explosivity Index (VEI) = 7. (100x greater than Mt. St Helens)
150 cubic kilometers of rock, 200 million tons of aerosols, Year without a Summer – largest explosive eruption in recent historic time.
90,000 killed in first few minutes of the eruption, red and brown snow falls in Europe during the "Year Without Summer" or "1800 and Froze to Death".
For Comparison Purposes:
1980 A.D. - St. Helens, Washington (USA) Erupts
1 cubic kilometer of ash.
Volcanic Explosivity Index (VEI) = 5
If I'm prepared for The One-Hour Meltdown then I'm prepared for this to, yes?
It's always something.