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Satellite Images Of Volcanic Cloud Causing "Worst In Living Memory" European Aerospace Restrictions
Here are some images of the volcanic cloud which is causing airspace shutdowns over most of Europe.
More from Reuters:
A huge ash cloud from an Icelandic volcano turned the skies of northern Europe into a no-fly zone on Thursday, stranding hundreds of thousands of passengers.
The European air safety organization said the disruption, the biggest seen in the region, could last another two days and a leading volcano expert said the ash could present intermittent problems to air traffic for six months if the eruption continued.
Even if the disruption is short lived, the financial impact on airlines is likely to be significant, a consultant said. [all the more reason to push the transports to all 18 months highs]
The volcano began erupting on Wednesday for the second time in a month from below the Eyjafjallajokull glacier. It hurled a plume of ash six to 11 kilometers (3.8 to 7 miles) into the atmosphere, and this spread south east overnight.
Impact on airtraffic is already widespread:
Britain barred flights in its air space, except in emergencies, until at least 0600 GMT on Friday, with a flight returning soldiers from Afghanistan having to be held in Cyprus.
It was the first time "within living memory" that a natural disaster had caused such a halt, a spokeswoman for Britain's National Air Traffic Service (NATS) said. Even after the September 11, 2001 attacks on U.S. cities, Britain did not close its air space, she said.
Northern French airports were due to be shut in stages on Thursday evening, with Paris airports to shut by 11 p.m. (2100 GMT) at the latest, authorities there said.
Brussels, Amsterdam and Geneva airports said they had canceled a large number of flights and Eurocontrol spokesman Brian Flynn said on Thursday afternoon the problem could persist for a further 48 hours.
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So how is this going to be used to explain bad employment numbers in the US?
"The BLS reported today an unexpected rise in unemployment in April due to the volcanic eruption in Iceland, in mid April. There is a direct correlation between the unexpected drop in European airline traffic and tourism in the United States, as such increases typically cause increases in service industry full time and seasonal employment. We expect that this volcanic eruption and Easter, both acts of God, to have ongoing and detrimental effects on the US employment outlook."
Dude,
If you don't already work for the Ministry of Information, then you definitely have a career option to go there! After all, we KNOW government is a sector of the economy that is growing, and will likely continue to grow, for years to come!
+10!
LOL
People rushed to submit claims before the end of the world as we know it. Earthquakes, volcanoes, Soros. The end is near and 2012 is just around the corner. :>)
Meanwhile in the Midwest:
http://qctimes.com/news/local/article_6351568e-488d-11df-a706-001cc4c03286.html?oCampaign=hottopics
Dammit we were supposed to have until 2012 before the world ended! There goes my plan to party down on skipped mortgage payments until doomsday.
...just remembered, I don't have a mortgage to default on. Guess I'm screwed either way.
The party is just getting warmed up. Plenty more party poppers left to go off before the main event.
BTW, come on over and help me not pay my mortgage. :>)
Now, THAT'S funny!!
"So how is this going to be used to explain bad employment numbers in the US?"
Easy, if the ash stays around long enough, it will cause cooling temp's...which will morph into slower comsuming, which morphs into more job loss.........every thing can be used to explain away lunatic economics of Nero & the fair share marxist's
I dont know about our jobless numbers but the Dutch & Brits are going to blame the Icelanders (again) for their economic woes.
Today you have the Icelandic cloud burying the UK. Next week it will be Greek cloud burying Germany.
While all those people are waiting for flights they can go buy iphones and ipads. That's what people do these days, ya know.
Didn't something like this happen a couple of hundred years ago and caused the Thames to freeze over the next winter. Also a lot of painters of the time had very red sunsets.... because of the volcanic ash in the sky
Krakatoa.. But that was not nearly as close by as Iceland.
And not to mention that the eruption of the caldera of Krakatoa was the largest, strongest explosion in the known history of this planet. Iceland is not even .00001% of what was Krakatoa.
Ummm, Krakatoa was big and one of the largest eruptions in recent human memory, but is far, far, away from being the largest in known history. For that, check out:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Garita
Al can breathe a sigh of relief. An antidote for global warming... :-)
You mean cower in fear. How is he going to sell volcano offsets?!?!?
This is all Bush's fault. The sheer weight of the military machine that he sent, and still remains, in the Middle East has caused a substantial deflection in the mid-Asian continental plate, and with this deflection a redirection of the underlying magma chamber toward the Iceland rift; and resultant volcanic eruption.
Not bad. I think the current bankers would rather try this. "This is a direct result of Iceland not paying off the UK and Netherlands! This is a direct attack on Europe and an act of terror by Iceland! We must invade and stop these economic and ecological terrorists!" It is election time in the UK after all, Brown could use a looting war to polish his image.
Makes sense. Iceland's tardiness has angered the gods!
Dr. Evil says: "magma"
Apart from global warming being a con anyway, they won't like it if it gets out that something like could cause cooling... the con (as with all the other mis-information) is all about people control and increasing taxes .. under the guise of 'green' taxes and good for the environment to prevent 'global warming' when all they want is to squeeze more money out of the poor peasants
This volcano known as Eyjafjalla has a sister Katla which is known for more explosive eruptions. Eyjafjalla has erupted 3 times in the last thousand years and each time has triggered an eruption of Katla. When Katla went off in 1755 it caused a winter so severe in the US that the Mississippi River froze as far south as New Orleans.
Here is the link to an interesting read:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/from-icelands-depths-an-ancien...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Pinatubo
"The effects of the eruption were felt worldwide. It ejected roughly 10 billion metric tonnes (10 cubic kilometres) of magma, and 20 million tons of SO2, bringing vast quantities of minerals and metals to the surface environment. It injected large amounts of aerosols into the stratosphere—more than any eruption since that of Krakatoa in 1883. Over the following months, the aerosols formed a global layer of sulfuric acid haze. Global temperatures dropped by about 0.5 °C (0.9 °F), and ozone depletion temporarily increased substantially."
BTW the painting "the scream" by Munch was painted right after the eruption of Krakatoa and hence the rich sunset in the background.
Pop in heating oil futures for next winter?
Mother Earth responds to the financial "crisis": no more flights.
But really, I wonder how long it will spew.
1783-86: Two succesive severe winters. The Thames froze completely in both, almost continuous frost lasted from early to late winter. Snow remained for as long as 4 months. Attributed to an Icelandic volcanic eruption, although details regarding this are slim. Heavy snow also fell early on in both years, with snow falling as early as October. 1784 was a cold year generally. Sleet was recorded near the coast of the Moray Firth in August! Heavy snow fell in the South in October. The year was ranked in the top 10 coldest years recorded in the CET series. 1785 was very dry and cold, with again early snow in October. 1786 had a very dry summer, and was persistantly cold from September to November.
Hmmm every other day a new earthquake, now a big ol' volcanic cloud and the fringe folks like Arch Crawford sayin' the upcoming astro charts are the most ominous in the last uh 10,000 years or so?
Mayhaps the random walkers are underestimating the 'gravity' of our situation?
AM, how's it hanging? Slow coming back after a few weeks off? Or have I just been missing you on ZH?
Fringe? Maybe, maybe not.
http://www.crawfordperspectives.com/index.html
All I know is the sweetest freshest grass isn't found where the other cattle have been walking, pissing and shi**ing.
Combination of movin' slow and gobsmacked ...
Don't think Arch is fringe either ... and he is wiggin' ...
http://anonymousmonetarist.blogspot.com/2010/03/street-jiggin-in-hopes-of-j6p-piggin.html
Here's a couple you might have missed CD :)
http://anonymousmonetarist.blogspot.com/2010/04/hemlock-as-libation-in-reflation-nation.html
http://anonymousmonetarist.blogspot.com/2010/04/windfall-apples-need-be-reserved-for.html
http://anonymousmonetarist.blogspot.com/2010/04/news-flash-noblesse-oblige-have.html
This is the only volcano I'm really worried about:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOn3wkehluk
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megatsunami#Canary_Islands
Yeah, that one's pretty terrifying, too. Glad I don't live too close to the eastern coastline ...
wonder what the DOW will be buy then, i bet its over 36k
eh, they just hyped up the canary islands thing for a discovery channel show. i think the theory has been disproved elsewhere.
Earthquakes in Asia and South America, major volcanic activity in Iceland and, we'll have to see, another bad year for hurricanes. Mother Earth is getting pissed and is starting to fight back. It'll be a good year for natural disasters. Do we short major insurance companies?
The Earth is well overdue for a magnetic field reversal, which often co-incides with extinctions of several species
Yea, Im thinking hairless monkeys are way overdue.
Is there any known effect on Vampire Squid?
Being a evil creature that likes to hide and lurk and then pounce on it's prey, I should say it is unlikely the many of them will be harmed
+1
Iceland in on the mid-Atlantic ridge where new crust is fromed and the east coast of Asia and west coast of South America are in subduction zones where collisions of techtonic plates occur. It's been happening for billions of years, the only thing that has changed is the information age and the 24 hour news cycle.
Another change is global dependence on thousands of jet-powered airliners whose engines don't like to inhale abrasive volcanic ash.
Touche.
Buy Gold! the Volcanoes DEMAND IT!
http://www.nytimes.com/1994/10/28/world/fiery-volcano-in-colombia-spewing-gold.html?pagewanted=1
With my luck, that volcano is going to start spewing rivers of gold at any moment!
Do what you will Mama, I love you!
-LH
My satellite image is not too clear, but it looks a lot like a Black Swan.
Can someone measure the amount CO spewed out by the planet?
Vulcan unloading greenhouse gas before cap and trade.
A single eruption like this is probably more CO2 than the total industrial output of Europe in a year.
Yet the EPA says CO2 is a pollutant. I didn't know the planet could pollute itself.
Becuase of the stupid shit that you just typed.. I will assume you have not converted you AR-15 over to a 416 yet.. and dont see any need too..
Wake up, you are making smart gun people look bad with your ignorant blabbing.
Read.. http://www.gigatonthrowdown.org/intro.php
The smartest people on the planet.. say that refined CO2 is bad for the planet... like refined sugar is bad for your wifes ass... do we need a study? to prove that as well? from the smartest people on the planet?
http://www.gigatonthrowdown.org/files/Gigaton_EntireReport.pdf read it all... then, you will have a clue... bash the idiots.
Don't make me dis-like you... betweent he name and the picture you would be forcing me to not like someone I should be able to Love easily.
Seriously, JW
Oh, the smartest people on the planet say so? You mean that dude who invented the internet?
I've got a newsflash for you... CO2 is one carbon atom and two oxygen. It doesn't come in Good and Evil forms. Stop filling your mind with that liberal garbage.
And my ARs are all 556 ;)
I read that report and while there's quite a bit in it regarding alternative energy sources, there's precious little in there about CO2 itself.
If you're going to be snooty and arrogant to people who dare doubt your God-given wisdom, you might want to ensure that the lengthy literature to which you point them actually makes your case.
Anyway:
Care to 'splain to me how carbon dioxide specifically can be such an overwhelming danger to humanity when it's a trace atmospheric gas with exceedingly weak greenhouse properties, and when its atmospheric concentration hasn't actually changed in the last 150 years ...?
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/12/091230184221.htm
It's just our man in Amsterdam....er....Florida being his lovable polite respectful self.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ec-8mD_BhrU
I was a wondering where he lives, knew it wasn't florida....
Volcano god needs feeding again. Someone head over to Iceland with a virgin.
Save the virgins for me. I vote we send over 534 members of Congress. You can guess which one I'm not sending, and it ain't Bawney.
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Save the virgins for me. I vote we send over 534 members of Congress. You can guess which one I'm not sending, and it ain't Bawney.
Mad Max,
Plus a Million for you Fucker! as we seem to have some common ground... could you do me a personal favor? with congress and the senate... could you add the lobby as well... or, you could just send the Lobby and then no one would be here to Bribe, I am sorry... Lobby them... so they would have to listen to the people who voted them in... instead of the people who pay for thier air time...
See it?
Thanks, JW
Throw congress in that thing and you will really piss it off!
Just think of the pyroclastic flows that congresscritters would cause!
Not to mention that would make for TWO gold-spewing volcanos at once...
LOL
I was thinking the same thing. The question is, does it require only female virgins or can they be male? If so, can a male be a virgin if he hasn't been "penetrated" yet?
I'm trying to find a loop hole for Bernanke and company. Though Bernanke probably can't pass the "penetrated" test either.
Will this delay the IMF team?
"Paging Rahm Emmuel, Paging Rahm Emmanuel. Your crisis is wasting".
+1000
rahm, rahm. volcanic ash... volcanic ash... volumes of cash.
Keep eye on Monsterrat.
Good thing we got the polar route opened.
Iceland carbon offsets
Harrisburg IOU's
Greek austerity
Worst in living memory? The airline industry didn't even start untill the middle of last century. I think 9/11 was the worst aerospace restrictions I can remember...although maybe not for Europe but I'd have to believe so.
Failed geothermal green energy experiment.
Edgar Cayce predicts tribulations will start after volcanic eruption in Iceland and heavy earthquakes in South America. After volcanic eruptions in Iceland watch more and more earthquakes and volcanic eruptions, one of the places the next volcanic activity will happen : Italy and Greece
You know the best thing about the Rapture? All the unclaimed shoes that will be scattered about! Just think, no more shoe shopping ever again!
Vulcanism Weighted Average Price
:D
i think this is Iceland getting back at UK/Dutch for that Icesave BS. Collateral damage is rest of Europe, but thats alright.
We in the UK told Iceland to send us cash, not Ash!
All their frozen assets have gone up in smoke
pity their isn't a major fault line along wall street
A major fault line sits off the coast of New York.
for cheeky... http://www.volcanodiscovery.com/en/photos/krakatau/june09.html?&photo=2&...
Yes, Iceland got really creative on us there. +10 to Iceland for ingenuity.