Iceland Volcano

[Shiva]

Found this picture on the Net. It's the volcanic eruption delaying air travel across Europe. This is by far the best and most beautiful picture I have ever seen of a volcano. It was taken by a farmer. I love the colors, the landscape, the different clouds, the light, the farm and the whispy clouds in the sky above. I had to make sure you could all see it.

Nature Awesome!

Michel

 

[SlipperFan]

It is awesome! But it sure made havoc with airplane travel. I wonder if it will have any effect on climate.

 

[Shiva]

Although awesome, it is a small volcano. Nothing like Pinatubo or Krakatoa. This is a small cracker compared to those but the picture is still beautiful. Just imagine standing there and watching this nearly over your head. How small we are!

 

[cnycharles]

it will cool things to some degree though maybe a very small degree. I think when some of the major eruptions happened in recent history, there was cooling for a few years, even some famine because of very delayed/shortened growing seasons (I guess that's one reason why everyone should have a small greenhouse)
thanks for sharing the picture

 

[etex]

Thanks for showing us. The farmer took a magnificent pic!

 

[Rick]

There are potentially two effects to consider. Both of which could be too small in this particular case to make a difference.

1) The shading and GH gas effects of the aerial admissions (both gaseous and particulate.

2) The large sudden freshwater release from melting ice, which appears to be causing some significant flooding at this time.

At least one time in the distant past enough freshwater (from melting glaciers) suddenly entered the northern ocean causing disruption of the primary ocean currents, which in turn caused a mini ice age.

So there has been a concern that as glaciers melt there would be large lakes of cold fresh water dammed up behind "ice dams". With a catastrophic release of the dammed up water a huge influx of cold fresh water would dump into the ocean and stop or reverse the direction of the prevailing oceanic current (which ultimately controls global weather patterns).

 

[paphjoint]

Iceland is still experiencing a bankruptcy situation - they got it wrong we want cash not ash

 

[Shiva]

There are potentially two effects to consider. Both of which could be too small in this particular case to make a difference.

1) The shading and GH gas effects of the aerial admissions (both gaseous and particulate.

2) The large sudden freshwater release from melting ice, which appears to be causing some significant flooding at this time.

At least one time in the distant past enough freshwater (from melting glaciers) suddenly entered the northern ocean causing disruption of the primary ocean currents, which in turn caused a mini ice age.

So there has been a concern that as glaciers melt there would be large lakes of cold fresh water dammed up behind "ice dams". With a catastrophic release of the dammed up water a huge influx of cold fresh water would dump into the ocean and stop or reverse the direction of the prevailing oceanic current (which ultimately controls global weather patterns).

The eruption of Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines in 1991 released enough ash and gas in the atmosphere to bring the temperature down globally by 0.7 degree C. It was far more massive than this eruption in Iceland. And by the way, I've heard that this eruption destroyed the main habitat of the beautiful Vanda luzonica. I hope enough of them still live in collections to save the species.

 

[Shiva]

Iceland is still experiencing a bankruptcy situation - they got it wrong we want cash not ash

I don't want to be rash, but if ash was cash we could all have a bash eating ribs and mash, then get trashed on hasch listening to Johnny Cash. oke:

 

[KyushuCalanthe]

Iceland is still experiencing a bankruptcy situation - they got it wrong we want cash not ash

They do have it ash-end backwards, don't they?

 

[Kevin]

Cool photo! Has anyone heard what the effects are to Iceland itself? The major story is flight cancellations. Have any villages been affected by the ash cloud? Is there any lava?

 

[Rick]

I don't want to be rash, but if ash was cash we could all have a bash eating ribs and mash, then get trashed on hasch listening to Johnny Cash. oke:

That's pretty clever Shiva:clap::clap:

 

[Shiva]

Thanks Rick. Had to find a way to get passed post number 666.

 

[SlipperFan]

I don't want to be rash, but if ash was cash we could all have a bash eating ribs and mash, then get trashed on hasch listening to Johnny Cash. oke:

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