New pix of Iceland volcanic plume

From ESA (zoomed image below the read more line) New satellite image of ash spewing from Iceland’s volcano 19 April 2010 In this image taken [at] (14:45 CET) by ESA’s…

Royal Ash: Royal society jumps on magma driven worry express

Guest post by Steven Goddard Wikipedia Image of Disaster Movie poster While volcanic ash falls on Britain, in yet another assault on reason, the Royal Society has warned : In papers published…

Ash cloud models – overrated? A word on Post Normal Science by Dr. Jerome Ravetz

“We sent ten Boeing 747 and Airbus 340 jets on transfer flights from Munich to Frankfurt,” Lufthansa spokesman Klaus Walther told the paper. The planes were moved in order to…

Clean air, a problem?

Here’s a headline I thought I’d never see. In the 60’s and 70’s we were bombarded with images like these: Now we hear that may be a good thing. Make…