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Volcano: Iceland
Topic Started: Apr 15 2010, 07:00 PM (231 Views)
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Volcano could mean cooling, acid rain

msnbc.com staff and news service reports
updated 10:03 a.m. CT, Thurs., April 15, 2010


If Iceland's active volcano gets even more active, Icelanders and air travelers won't be the only ones impacted. Gases from past large volcanoes have actually lowered Earth's temperatures, triggered lung ailments, caused acid rain and thinned our protective ozone layer.

more at link..with pix
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/36556083
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Well, what do you know? Like a bolt from the blue something that the average person never ever contemplated has shown the fragility of our technology. A volcano which has not erupted for 200 years lets off steam, and widespread chaos results. With the coming changes in mind, is this a preview of whats to come? (probably...)

So, with volcanic ash blowing in our directions air travel in all of the British Isles, much of Scandinavia plus parts of Russia and Europe has been totally stopped.. We are told that the ash will damage aircraft engines, causing them to fail mid-flight, which could be said to be a 'very bad thing' as it usually results in the aircraft then falling out of the sky!

Wind directions are an important aspect of this. At present they are blowing from the north-west, which is the direction of Iceland, but if they changed so that we received southerly or south-easterly winds so then the ash wouldn't be coming here.

Its ironic that Iceland is the cause of this chaos and disruption (which is costing a lot of people a lot of money), as when their bank went bust they also lost a lot of people a lot of money... Maybe they are still hankering to secretly / subconsciously escalate the Cod war from the 1970's?

As if to add to the misery, if news reports are correct then many people will find that their travel insurance does not cover them for losses due to 'natural events', such as this.

However I suppose the saying that every cloud has a silver lining also applies to clouds of volcanic ash, as with all aircraft grounded there are no chemtrails. (At least, the usual method of propagatioon has been thwarted!)

Walking through my local park a couple of hours ago I looked up to see if I could spot the difference. I could! And I took a few photos too! Once downloaded off my camera I'll share a few here. It might be Sunday before this happens.

I've also noticed a slight but perceptable change to the ambiant background noise. Normally planes stacking for Stansted airport can be seen above where I live, and I'm near the flight path for London's city airport too.

Simon

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howdy simon - looking forward to seeing your pix. thanks.

here's a webcam of the volcano.... it's venting right now... wow, absolutely incredible!

http://eldgos.mila.is/eyjafjallajokull-fra-thorolfsfelli/
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Europe Cuts 77% of Flights; Relief May Come April 22 (Update3)
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April 17 (Bloomberg) -- European airlines canceled more than 77 percent of their flights today as most of the continent’s northern and central nations remained closed to air traffic, and Accuweather predicted little change until April 22.

No flights will operate out of the U.K. until at least 7 a.m. London time tomorrow, the National Air Traffic Service said today via e-mail. German airports will remain closed until 8 a.m. Berlin time tomorrow, the DFX air traffic control agency said. The European Organisation for the Safety of Air Navigation, or Eurocontrol, expects about 5,000 flights across Europe today, compared with 22,000 on a “normal” Saturday, it said today in a statement.

“Expect ongoing interruptions for the next four or five days,” Teitur Atlason, at the Icelandic meteorological office, said in a telephone interview today. “The eruption is still in full swing, and the volcano is spewing pretty dark ashes as high into the air as 5 to 6 kilometers.”

Flights were grounded after April 14 when an eruption at the Eyjafjallajökull volcano, spewed dust across thousands of miles of European airspace, closing terminals from Dublin to Moscow. The direction of winds high in the atmosphere mean the disruption may continue for the next few days.

‘No Signs of Change’

“The jet stream winds, which extend from 10,000 feet up to 40,000 feet, show no signs of change through Wednesday,” Accuweather said in a statement. “Any ash plume that is released from the Eyjafjall volcano in Iceland will continue to threaten northern Europe and the British isles.”

Canceled flights are costing carriers about $200 million a day, the International Air Transport Association estimates. Anyone hoping to travel should contact their airline before traveling to the airport, NATS said.

Flights have been halted because of concerns that the ash plume could damage engines and speed sensors. The finest material from the blast is formed of dust akin to glass, which can melt and congeal in a turbine, causing it to stop, said Sue Loughlin, head of vulcanology at the British Geological Survey.

“The current in the height the ashes are reaching remains a strong northwesterly wind, which blows the ashes to Scotland and South Scandinavia,” Atlason of the Icelandic Met Office said. “Once the ashes reach those places other more complex wind systems take over, which spread the ashes across North and Central Europe. This will continue until Wednesday.”

Continue for Months

Volcanic eruptions may continue for months, curtailing European air traffic when the ash reaches the region, said Sigrun Hreinsdottir, a geophysicist at the University of Iceland in Reykjavik. “From what we’ve seen, it could erupt, pause for a few weeks, and then possibly erupt again.”

The last eruption of Eyjafjallajökull in December 1821 continued until January 1823. The current blast has sent ash to as high as 7 kilometers (4.5 miles), according to Gudrun Larsen, a vulcanologist at the University of Iceland. The magma had to pierce 200 meters of ice before erupting, she said.

“We really don’t know if this eruption is going to last as long as the previous one, but we can’t say it’s not a possibility,” Larsen said by telephone.

Deutsche Lufthansa AG cancelled all flights to and from German airports today. All long-distance flights to Germany with a scheduled arrival until 2 p.m. tomorrow were also cancelled, the company said in a statement on its Web site today.

“This is the first time all our planes are grounded,” Lufthansa spokesman Wolfgang Weber said via telephone.

Canceled Flights

British Airways Plc, which halted flights from the U.K. from midday on April 15, said no short-haul services in London will operate today or tomorrow. Its shares tumbled 3.1 percent in the U.K. capital yesterday, the most since Feb 12.

Denmark extended the shutdown of its airspace for all flights until 2 a.m. local time tomorrow, according to the Web site of Copenhagen-based Naviair, Denmark’s flight controller.

Switzerland and Belgium today extended closure of their respective airspaces to 8 p.m. local time, Agence France-Presse reported. Paris airports will remain shut until 8 a.m. on Monday, a government official said. Belarus closed airspace for passenger and cargo flights, Interfax reported. The ash may stay over the country for two or three days, it said.

Air France-KLM Group’s Dutch KLM unit canceled today’s flights into and out of Amsterdam Airport Schiphol, the company said in a statement on its Web site. Dutch airspace is closed until at least 8 p.m., the Netherlands’ Inspectorate for Transport, Public Works and Water Management said.

Rome Open

Italy will keep airspace in the north of the country closed until at least 8 a.m. on April 19 and may curtail flights in the south as a cloud of volcanic ash spreads across Europe from Iceland, ENAC, the nation’s civil aviation authority, said in an e-mailed statement today.

Airports in Rome remain open, though they’re experiencing delays and cancellations.

TUI AG, owner of Europe’s largest travel company, has cancelled all flights until at least Sunday 12 p.m. German time. TUI will assume the costs for one more night at a hotel for all customers affected by the decision, the Hanover, Germany-based company said in an e-mailed statement today.

Carriers throughout the Asia-Pacific region canceled flights on the routes to Europe, with Australia’s Qantas Airways Ltd. saying it didn’t know when service might resume. Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd., based in Hong Kong, scrapped departures to London, Paris, Frankfurt and Milan and said it wouldn’t accept new bookings for the next few days.

Europe-bound flights from Japan, South Korea, China and India were stopped because of danger from the ash. Air India and Singapore Airlines Ltd. canceling some routes to North America.

‘Several Days’

“At this stage it’s highly unlikely things are going to return to normal for several days at least,” David Epstein, a Qantas spokesman in Melbourne, said today at a press briefing. “It may well be a week.”

The outlook this weekend is for westerly winds to pick up over northern Britain, shifting ash away from Scotland, while a blocking pattern may continue to keep it over England. The edge of the ash cloud was forecast to reach as far south as northern Italy and Romania and as far east as the borders of Kazakhstan today, according to the Met office.

Because of the wind direction, Iceland’s Keflavik airport remains open, with North American flights operating on schedule.

The eruption began on March 20 with a lava flow on the eastern flank of the Eyjafjallajökull volcano, according to the Institute of Earth Sciences at the University of Iceland. After a lull, it erupted again early on April 14, directly under the icecap that covers most of the mountain.

Magma and Ice

“The problem here is we have magma interacting with glacier ice, and that leads to explosions,” Hreinsdottir said. “That causes the material to go much higher in the air.”

Mike Burton, a researcher at the Italian National Vulcanology Institute who has studied the ash from the latest explosion, said it presents more of a threat to aircraft than would the dust from a typical eruption.

“It’s likely that ash production will continue long after all the ice is melted in the volcano as this kind of magma can produce ash without water,” Burton said by telephone. “Fine ash is easier to transport long distances and goes higher into the atmosphere. This is not good news for flights.”

To contact the reporters on this story: Matthew Brown in London at mbrown42@bloomberg.net; Omar R. Valdimarsson in Reykjavik valdimarsson@bloomberg.net

Last Updated: April 17, 2010 11:42 EDT
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Well despite directly affecting just a small part if the planet, the disruption to trade, commerce and travel makes it a global phenomena.

I've heard it said that the ash situation is a sham, and that the truth points towards a NATO military operation. During the day the TV news was telling us that its been discovered that a military jet from Finland which flew through the eruption cloud was badly damaged (corroded) by the acids in the cloud.

So, where does truth fit in to all of this?? Pass!

In the meantime, these links may be of interest...

The Nato military operation.. in the midst of the volcanic issue, is it still ongoing???

http://www.usafe.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123199666


and if we think that the volcano that is currently erupting is a problem, then there is this!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katla


Then there is a threat of toxic fluoride gas

http://english.pravda.ru/world/europe/15-0...icelandic_ash-0

Simon (who spent a good part of today away from the computer and basking in the warm sunshine).

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Hello everyone,

Some comparative views of the sky over London with and without chemtrails. Alas, I cannot photograph the reduction in background noise which comes from the grounding of all aircraft.


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This first image was taken in Central London on Thursday.

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The rest of these images were taken in my local park on Friday.



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Gee simon - those pictures look mighty fine... and i am glad you were basking in the sun today. :D

not sure what to make of the ash/airtraffic halting...

however the chemtrails last week were very very heavy.. :angry:
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The media is very busy reporting on people's desperate attempts to get back to Britain - the government has even sent the Navy in to help! There has been a new realisation that we are still an island nation, and that when flying to (eg: Turkey) the 'land masses' flown over below are actually countries, such as Bulgaria, Rumania, (etc) about which we know very little and through which to pass takes 'ages'. Oh then there are also these things
called 'mountains' which again take ages to traverse.

Against a backdrop of the famous White Cliffs of Dover, the television has also been talking about the Dunkirk spirit of 1940.

But, after 1940 came a much wider and longer period of disruption. Will history repeat itself in this too? In 1943/4 Vesuvius erupted. Will that history repeat itself as well? Is Naples about to be covered is ash too?

In the meantime, the first jokes have started rolling in... it may be remembered that a few years ago an Icelandic Bank failed and many British people, local governments, and more, lost a lot of money. So, finally the funds are being repaid...

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Dear United Kingdom,

In response to your demand to send CASH immediately...

Please note the Icelandic Alphabet does not contain the letter "C."

We have complied with your request as best as our language allows.

It's not easy to conjure up a volcano at will to spew tons of ASH.

Please consider our debt paid in full.

Respectfully yours,

Iceland


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