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Category: Vulcanism
Volcano Update
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…
Iceland, soon to be Ashland
Another eruption of the Eyjafjallajökull Volcano in Iceland, another round of air traffic closures. download large image (3 MB, JPEG) After more than a week of relatively subdued activity in…
Who says asphalt isn't natural?
Given this revelation, I expect someone to argue soon that this climate monitoring station in Tremonton, Utah is in a natural environment. 😉 From the University of California, Santa Barbara…
In Defense Of The Met Office
By Steven Goddard As reported on WUWT, The UK Met Office is taking a lot of heat for airline financial loses, caused by no flight rules during the Icelandic volcanic…
Guardian Continues To Spread Misinformation About Eyjafjallajokull
By Steven Goddard Yesterday WUWT reported on the inaccurate #1 environmental story at Guardian. The Guardian article originally read : The volcanic eruption has released carbon dioxide, but the amount is dwarfed by…
Airlines Blame Flawed Computer Modeling For Up To $1.7 Billion Loss
As a follow up to our 4/19 story about ash cloud modeling: Ash cloud models – overrated? A word on Post Normal Science by Dr. Jerome Ravetz I offer below a…
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…
Volcanoes and Water
Guest Post by Steven Goddard The Guardian image below taken this week near Iceland has the caption “Smoke and ash billows from a volcano in Eyjafjallajokull, Iceland Photograph: Ingolfur Juliusson/Reuters”…
Volcanoes Cause Climate Change
Guest post by Steven Goddard Scientific American recently reported on the dodgy concept that climate change causes volcanoes, when in fact it is quite the opposite. Wikipedia : An early…
Reply to: "Ice cap thaw may awaken Icelandic volcanoes"
Guest post by Steven Goddard Scientific American has reported that global warming may cause an increase in volcanic eruptions, due to increased magma formation at lower pressures as glaciers melt. This caught my…
We knew, it was only a matter of time…
From “Scientific” American via Reuters, proof positive that global warming is omnipotent and is intertwined into anything you choose it to be. Why, even the inner Earth bends to its…
Ash Thursday – the day the UK was planeless
The eruption of a volcano in Iceland has the skies over the UK and Europe filled with ash. Like what happened on 9/11 in the USA, planes are landing everywhere…
Iceland's volcanic ash cloud – airports closed in UK, Europe
This image, acquired on 15 April 2010 by Envisat’s Medium Resolution Imaging Spectrometer (MERIS), shows the vast cloud of volcanic ash sweeping across the UK from the eruption in Iceland,…
One more thing to worry about – undersea supervolcanoes
From the National Science Foundation via press release: Scientists explore origins of ‘supervolcanoes’ on the sea floor Ancient goliaths blamed for multiple mass extinctions “Supervolcanoes” have been blamed for multiple…
Icelandic fissure eruption triggers worries
A unique Iceland volcanic eruption covered by BBC. Video clips follow. The eruption split a 1km chasm in the ice Volcano erupts near Eyjafjallajoekull in south Iceland An Icelandic volcano,…
Scientists Locate Apparent Hydrothermal Vents off Antarctica
The title is from Columbia, and I should point out that this discovery on the Pacific Antarctic Ridge is 2800 miles from tip of the Antarctic peninsula, where volcanic activity…
Major Philippine volcanic eruption seems imminent
Mayon – Shades of Pinatubo Here’s a recent AP report and bulletin from local authorities. Meanwhile, fools rush in as 2400 tourists a day flock to the area.
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