“We believe the reduction of ice has not been important in triggering this latest eruption,” he said of Eyjafjallajokull.
Related – “It’s always illuminating when the people who tell us nightly about the absolute certainty of anthropogenic climate-change demonstrate their ignorance about how the Earth works.”
Katla “is groaning”.
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“This is just the beginning, warn scientists
THE clash between molten rock and ice on the surface of the Iceland volcano has produced ash so fine that radar and other aircraft instruments are unable to detect it.
The near-invisibility of the ash swirling in vast clouds over Britain and Europe has magnified the confusion and trepidation brought about by the eruption of Eyjafjallajokull.
Now the uncertainty is set to increase still further, with scientists warning that, based on the volcano’s historic behaviour, the eruption could be “just the beginning”. The mountain may continue to blow out ash sporadically for a year or more.
Even more worryingly, Katla, the neighbouring volcano, is groaning from the eruption under pressure equivalent to 3,000 mini-earthquakes a day of up to 3.1 on the Richter scale. Katla is some five times bigger than Eyjafjallajokull and would erupt in a similar way — but spewing out far bigger plumes of ash.”
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/science/earth-environment/article7100906.ece#cid=OTC-RSS&attr=797084
Yeah, those tropical volcanoes just *never* stop erupting.
Let’s just cut to the chase . . . Global warming causes Stupidity in Susceptible People.
Call it the “Al Gore explanation”
The real reason for the eruption has been revealed:
http://transmission.blogs.topgear.com/2010/04/16/1990/
Though initially assumed that he was simply filming a feature for the the popular motoring television show, it has since been speculated that May’s purpose was far more devious.
“It has been scientifically proven that Top Gear is responsible for almost every evil in the modern world, so the eruption of a furious tectonic force barely a week after Richard Clarkson’s ‘visit’ can hardly be viewed as mere coincidence,” says media commentator Annalisa Kneejerk.
“We have it on good authority that Jeremy Hammond drove one of his favourite Ferrari gas-guzzlers at 100mph, straight into the main magma chamber, which could quite easily have caused this geological catastrophe. Thankfully I’ve never watched the show.”
“Forgive them Gaia, oh supreme life giving force, for they are ignorant deniers and doubters, not peer reviewed experts in climate change like your loyal servants who received divine knowledge of volcanos and glaciers from your prophet AGWhore.”
The above refers to the MSM of course, there is no possible way of being sure what any scientist might have opined once MSM get through with it.
With all do respect Fred, I think people who believe in Anthropogenic Global Warming are already susceptible to stupidity. It’s a symptom, not a cause.
I’d also say they’re lazy, narcissistic and illogical as well.
It’s so simple, why does no one see it?! Volcanoes are the zits of the world. The Earth needs Clearasil! The Earth needs Clearasil!!
On a related note, Al Gore just bought a significant interest in the company.
Has the woman ever heard of Hawaii?
It’s the CIA with their satellite earthquake machine that is doing it. Ask Mel Gibson if you don’t believe me.
Reading the guy’s expressionless face and body language…I suspect he lost a coin toss….
Icelanders know all about volcanos so this doesn’t suprise me one bit. I think it’s obvious that the Icelanders are causing all of this and won’t stop until Europe pays off their debt.
“magma”
Dr.Evil
Nearby..
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The potential eruption of Iceland’s volcano Katla would likely send the world, including the USA, into an extended deep freeze.
“When Katla went off in the 1700s, the USA suffered a very cold winter,” says Gary Hufford, a scientist with the Alaska Region of the National Weather Service. “To the point, the Mississippi River froze just north of New Orleans and the East Coast, especially New England, had an extremely cold winter.
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http://tinyurl.com/y4vqfnr
I think Ole Svensen accidently dropped his years supply of viagra down an adjacent well to this volcano 2 weeks ago….makes sense doesn’t it like I thought it was too cold in Iceland….and with Oles wife being so fat…reason for Ole’s viagra…well when she stood up, there was less weight on the land…and the volcano had an easier time…coming, or..I think I’m a full fledged urinalist/gaia worshipping greenie now, finally, whew, now I’ll wait for the island to capsize to solidify my theorys! Algore, can I have a job with you?
I am pretty certain that volcanoes erupt because infidels have too much pleasurable sex. This is related to Deepak Chopra’s meditation-caused earthquakes in more ways than would be obvious to mere polymaths such as yourselves. One would have to be a genius, a genius I tell you, like that guy in the Tim Horton’s commercial, a person able to conceive of an entirely new drink, or perhaps to perceive how the Heisenberg uncertainty principle combined with Michael Moore’s annual Doritos intake can be used to devise an Obamametric functional al-gore-ithm that predicts to within plus or minus 100 per cent what might happen if, say, this sentence ends.
Man bear pig has struck.
Global warming caused Obama’s election victory.
“It’s always illuminating when the people who tell us nightly about the absolute certainty of anthropogenic climate-change demonstrate their ignorance about how the Earth works.”
Or basic economics.
Let’s see, we’ll implement some kind of Copenhagen treaty which will increase the costs to our already cleaner industry here but not to the much more polluting industry in China and for some reason people will buy the now even more expensive products from here.
A ton of steel produced in China creates 20% more pollution than a ton of steel from Hamilton.
The increased costs of Copenhagen treaty would make that clean steel from Hamilton even less competitive than the steel from the dirty mill in China.
But then some kind of economic miracle occurs and we all buy our steel from the more expensive mill in Hamilton.
It’s odd that those who scoff at anyone who believes in the miracles in the Bible are quite happy to believe in economic miracles as long as the guy preaching them has a green hat.
“They (scientists) said there was no sign that the current eruption from below the Eyjafjallajokull glacier that has paralysed flights over northern Europe was linked to global warming. The glacier is too small and light to affect local geology.”
(what wasn’t written)
the same scientists refused to speculate whether significant new pressures brought to bear in the area of East Anglia in Great Britain were in any way responsible for the lessening effect of AGW induced surface pressures in Iceland.
Stan
Come on man.
Chicom tinpot repressive dictatorship – good.
Big bad multi-national publicly owned corporation – bad.
Chicom slave labor, forced abortions – good.
Company with stock traded on TSX, paying dividends, paying good salaries, paying generous pensions – bad.
Get with the program, you knuckle dragging, mouth breathing neocon!
The plus side of a year long eruption is that passenger liners might make a comeback and one has the leisure to spent a week or so reading on a transatlantic sea voyage. The lack of internet access during this time will have unknown psychologic effects but perhaps a few months of SDA and WUWT archives loaded onto the laptop will take care of the problem. Another plus side is that lack of air travel to Europe means that it’s a lot harder for muslims to make it to N. America.
Tourism is Britains fifth largest industry, third largest export earner and worth 115 billion pounds yearly to their economy. France is probably similar. If their agriculture is also affected, could be very interesting.
“It’s always illuminating when the people who tell us nightly about the absolute certainty of anthropogenic climate-change demonstrate their ignorance about how the Earth works.”
Socrates explained that he was the wisest man in Athens because he knew he was ignorant.
We’ve got your demonstrating ignorance of how the Earth works right here – Extramarital sex fuels earthquakes
poor sweet blonde ditz’ last words were expressing concern over a domino effect…
Really?
And all this time I thought eruptions were caused internally.
Is this why the unicorns died out?
Maybe a bit off-topic, but the shutdown of air freight bringing produce into the UK and northern Europe will force everyone there to ‘buy locally’ (appropriately happening just in time for the Lenin’s birthday celebration this week). We shall soon be seeing just how well that works.
These folks are morons.
It’s them Icelanders. They done it. They’re inscutible, they are.
Was offline for the weekend. So let me get this straight. Less ice equals more blowey-uppies. What about Mt. St. Helens that blew a gazillion tons of rock skyward and leveled a large chunk of an entire mountain. Messed up weather for at least a year….
Maybe it just needed an extra couple of days of really cold ‘global warming’ to keep it contained.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-glacial_rebound
Durrrrrrrr.
Oh wait I get it: Isostatic rebound can be driven by the loss of glaciers, global warming (if it happens) would cause the loss of glaciers, but since the melting on glacier was too small to generate enough isostatic rebound to cause the eruption even, global warming must be a hoax.
Brilliant!
I wasn’t surprised when several reporters “on the scene” (wish they’d managed to get a LOT closer) reported that it was ICE MELT that was “FUELING” the eruption and that scientists were confident that as soon as the glacier over the volcano had melted back the eruption would terminate. This info apparently from some greenie at Reuters.
Unbelievable stupidity but then Reuters reported that Bernie Madoff had a personal fortune of $170BILLION so to me, Reuters holds about as much credence and credibility as some enquirer or midnight rag at the checkouts.