My most recent posting yesterday compared Kilauea with Eyjafjallajokull, and some of the worse case scenarios mentioned thankfully will probably not materialize, as all signs show a diminution of volcanic activity in Iceland. You can now only barely see the ash plume:
From the Associated Press:
"AP [April 20] "FOR ALL THE WORLDWIDE CHAOS THAT ICELAND'S VOLCANO HAS ALREADY CREATED, IT MAY JUST BE THE OPENING ACT." Scientists fear tremors at the Eyjafjallajokull volcano could trigger an even more dangerous eruption at the nearby Katla volcano - creating a worst-case scenario for the airline industry and travelers around the globe."
"A Katla eruption would be 10 times stronger and shoot higher and larger plumes of ash into the air than its smaller neighbor, which has already brought European air travel to a standstill for five days and promises severe travel delays for days more. The two volcanos are side by side in southern Iceland, about 12 miles (20 kilometers) apart and thought to be connected by a network of magma channels."
"Katla, however, is buried under ice 550 yards (500 meters) thick - the massive Myrdalsjokull glacier, one of Iceland's largest. That means it has more than twice the amount of ice that the current eruption has burned through - threatening a new and possibly longer aviation standstill across Europe. Katla showed no signs of activity Tuesday, according to scientists who monitor it with seismic sensors, but they were still wary."
"Pall Einarsson, professor of geophysics at the Institute of Earth Sciences at the University of Iceland, said one volcanic eruption sometimes causes a nearby volcano to explode, and Katla and Eyjafjallajokull have been active in tandem in the past. In fact, the last three times that Eyjafjallajokull erupted, Katla did as well. Katla also typically awakens every 80 years or so, and having last exploded in 1918 is now slightly overdue."
Last week my posting was entitled, The Index of Life, and most of the comments focused on energy. You can click on my other 70 or so articles:
* Evolution, Devolution, and Revolution
* One Global Government
* Hawaii Tsunami?
* The Sustainable Expo for 2020
* Just Another Day in My Life
* Progress in Southeast Asia
* The Wonder of South Korea
* There is Something About Thorium
* How To Roast A Turkey
* How Serious Is Our National Debt?
* Biofuels from Microalgae (Part 1)
* World 2.0
* The Future of Sustainable Aviation
* Gratitude...Not Grief
* Are We Getting Too Old?
* The Carbon Dioxide Credit Program
* A Simple Solution for Crime: Background
* A Pandemic Worse than the Swine Flu
* My Year With The Huffington Post
* A Solution for the American Auto Industry
* Extraterrestrial Intelligence?
* The USA: A Good World Citizen?
* Evolution, Global Warming, Doomsday and the Afterlife
* The 10% Solution
* Blue Revolution
* Will Oil Prices Remain Low for Two Years?
* America, Don't Copy...Build Something Better!
* Renewable Electricity is Our Only Viable Option
* Cheaper Oil Will Improve the Economy, but...
* Where is Wind Energy Today?
* Do It Now
* Trillions and Quadrillions
* The Sun will Continue to Shine...
* Simple Solutions for 2009
* Black Friday
* My Holiday Message
* A Solution for Barack
* Is There An Option More Promising Than The Plug-In Electric Vehicle?
* A Gift to Planet Earth and Humanity
* The Ultimate Ocean Ranch
* Simple Solutions for Our Biofuel Problem
* The Dawn of the Blue Revolution
* The Coming of OTEC
* Wall-E, Eve and Barack
* Buy American, Again
* The Venus Syndrome Revisited
* Billions and Trillions Revisited
* Barack Obama is Gray
* The Bailout Bill Passes Congress, President Signs the Legislation, and the World Is Saved. Not.
* Simple Solution for Our Fiscal Mess
* Whoops, We Might Be On the Verge Of Economic Calamity
* Global Warming and the Afterlife
* Why Do We Spend So Much On National Security?
* Billions and Trillions
* The Free Green Energy Age (Part 5)
* The Free and Clean Hydrogen Age (Part 3)
* We Need A Declaration Of Energy Independence
* What About Free Hydrogen? (Part 2)
* What About Free Hydrogen? (Part 1)
* Geoengineering of Climate Change
* Simple Solutions to Energy and Global Warming
* Why Do Republicans Like Fossil Fuels and Not Care That Much for the Environment?
* Piffle Squared
* What Is The Best Biofuel?
* Ethanol Vs. Methanol
* The Venus Syndrome (Part Two)
* The Venus Syndrome (Part One)
* Preaching To The Choir
* Why Is There No National Energy Policy?
* Well, Barack, We have a Problem...
-The Dow Jones Industrials edged up 8 to 11,125, with European markets down and those of the Pacific up. Gold is up 5/toz to 1147 and crude oil is just under 84/barrel, which is 2/gallon.
-Just another day at the beach. My lunch today at Magic Island was interrupted by three weddings:
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