By Steve Goddard
Eyjafjallajokull continues to erupt and is again shutting down British airspace:
A statement on the Nats website said the no-fly zone will be extended between 1pm and 7pm today to include Manchester, Liverpool, Carlisle, Doncaster, Humberside and East Midlands airports, all airports in Northern Ireland and Scottish airports, including Prestwick.
The animated image below shows the Met Office ash forecast for the next few days.
They are forecasting that by May 19 the ash cloud will move to the north. Their forecasts assume a constant eruption pattern and are based on modeled changes in wind patterns. Let’s see how they do.
Mt. St Helens erupted 30 years ago this week.
kwik says:
May 17, 2010 at 2:53 pm
R. Gates says:
“Jet Travel is a huge luxury and if a volcano grounds a few jet-setters now than then so much the better!”
Well then Mr Gates, lets hope it stops Mr. Gore’s Jet too!
And hopefully it will disturb one of your own holiday-trips some day.
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To quote the bible:
Matthew 5:45 (King James Version)
“That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.”
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I don’t give a whit what happens to Al Gore and his travel plans, and as for myself, I fully accept whatever nature brings.
CodeTech says:
May 17, 2010 at 1:10 pm
“So by your logic, it’s “so much the better” that Mr. Jet-set instructor here can’t see his mother for what might be the last time.
Really, your stereotypes and prejudice about who flies and why is quite disgusting.”
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Yes, lots of peoples plans have been disrupted by the volcano, from visiting sick relatives to weddings, funerals, business meetings, and on and on. But again, the point is that jet-travel is a luxury, not a basic human right. When a third of the planet goes to bed hungry every night, it’s hard for me to cry any tears over someone who can’t fly off in a jet at 30,000 feet for travel– regardless of the reason. Just doesn’t get much sympathy from me overall. As far as your jet-set instructor goes, I think the wisdom that what passed to me years ago would be in order…treat each parting with a loved one as the last parting, and each moment with them as precious.
R. Gates says:
May 18, 2010 at 11:49 am
“But again, the point is that jet-travel is a luxury, not a basic human right.”
Aha, now we are getting close to the agenda….You probably want a Government commitee to decide who is to use a jet, and who is not?
Who will guard the committee ? You?
Or how do you want to solve it, different to how it is today? A free world where you can accumulate wealth through work, and fly when you can afford it?
Actually, if I had had any respect for R. Gates that would definitely have ended it.
My last job was ALL air travel. I was on a plane typically 3-4 times a week for years. Gee… can’t pay the mortgage when that stops.
Interesting ashfall pics and comments here that gives you some perspective on this thing… like the equivalent weight in ash of 100 Ford F-150 pick-ups being blasted into the air in one second!
http://scienceblogs.com/eruptions/2010/05/more_on_eyjafjallajokull_and_t.php
R. Gates says on May 18, 2010 at 11:49 am
Ahhh, yes, the “I’m superior to you because I care about the little children and the poor and the weak” gambit.
kwik says:
“A free world where you can accumulate wealth through work, and fly when you can afford it?”
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Actually nope. The mere accumulation of wealth doesn’t give you the right to spend it any way you want. Every action (i.e. purchase you make) is not made in a bubble. No man (or woman) is an island unto themselves. Overall, jet travel is pretty bad for the environment. A little dent in air travel due to a volcano is a good thing.
And no, the government should not decide who gets to travel. The less government decides anything the better.
BS. That is just your opinion. Worthless.
Only because you think your opinion has more value than anyone else’s lives.
Either way, you are completely in error.
[sarc] Yeah, CodeTech, air travel is a luxury, like organ transplants, and if someone dies because the plane their heart transplant was going to fly on is grounded unnecessarily, why should anyone shed any tears? Life is a luxury – it’s not like anyone has a right to it. [/sarcoff]
I doubt the people one normally thinks of as “jet-setters” are being inconvenienced much unlike the poor folks traveling coach and trying to purchase discount tickets in advance and get time off their jobs.
As for R.Gates parting from any “loved ones” as though it is the last time so no regrets: it reminds me of the story of Lenin with his wife’s mother.
Lenin’s wife had been nursing her mother who was very ill, and told Lenin to wake her if her mother needed her. She woke up and found her mother dead, and asked Lenin why he had not woken her when her mother was dying. Lenin replied, “She didn’t need you. She was dying.” Something wrong with that guy…