The World Ends A Bit More Each Day

[Seshmeister]

26 and already a world renowned climatologist.

[Ally_Kat]

26 and already a world renowned climatologist.

In all seriousness, shit like this interests me and I read a lot about it.

When there are significant volcano eruptions in Iceland, it alters the northernly jet stream by pushing it south. This leads to drastically cooler weather the following year (like lack of a summer), which takes a significant time to self-correct. Talk now is how much cooler will next year be, and will there be another major Icelandic explosion. If there is another major activity from one of the neighboring volcanoes, or if the current one erupts again on the same scale, we're going to start seeing HUGE impacts on weather patterns.

[Little Texan]

In all seriousness, shit like this interests me and I read a lot about it.

When there are significant volcano eruptions in Iceland, it alters the northernly jet stream by pushing it south. This leads to drastically cooler weather the following year (like lack of a summer), which takes a significant time to self-correct. Talk now is how much cooler will next year be, and will there be another major Icelandic explosion. If there is another major activity from one of the neighboring volcanoes, or if the current one erupts again on the same scale, we're going to start seeing HUGE impacts on weather patterns.

Hey, I'm all for a summer with temps in the 70 or 80 degree range, as we're usually in the high 90's and 100's here during a typical summer. The flip side would be a colder winter, and I don't want to go through another cold winter like we just went through.

[hambon4lif]

Haiti, Chile, China, Baja-Mexico, and now the Iceland eruptions....
....if anyone's paying attention...all of these events have happened in just the last 3 and a half months!

"Honey, we have to do it tonite! There might not even BE a tomorrow!!"
....this is a line I use on my girlfriend so I can get some pussy, but now it's starting to look more and more like the truth!

When's the last time so much activity has occured in so small of a time span?

I really don't want my lie to become the truth......tell whoever's having fun with those TAARP machines to chill the fuck out!!!

[Blaze]

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[Northern Girl]

Haiti, Chile, China, Baja-Mexico, and now the Iceland eruptions....
....if anyone's paying attention...all of these events have happened in just the last 3 and a half months!

"Honey, we have to do it tonite! There might not even BE a tomorrow!!"
....this is a line I use on my girlfriend so I can get some pussy, but now it's starting to look more and more like the truth!

When's the last time so much activity has occured in so small of a time span?

I really don't want my lie to become the truth......tell whoever's having fun with those TAARP machines to chill the fuck out!!!

I heard on the news a couple days ago, they said it's a normal number that we see every year, it's just that they usually happen in the ocean and don't hear about them.

[Little Texan]

tell whoever's having fun with those TAARP machines to chill the fuck out!!!

OK, Phil The Stalker!

[VAiN]

I have to admit, if there's a cooling trend, I'm totally enjoying our longer than usual winter we've been having down here..

[Kristy]

Nature is beyond the realm of fascination

[Seshmeister]

Funny I was just about to post some pics of this...


The ash plume of southwestern Iceland's Eyjafjallajokull volcano streams southwards over the Northern Atlantic Ocean in a satellite photograph made April 17, 2010. The erupting volcano in Iceland sent new tremors on April 19, but the ash plume which has caused air traffic chaos across Europe has dropped to a height of about 2 km (1.2 mi), the Meteorological Office said. (REUTERS/NERC Satellite Receiving Station, Dundee University, Scotland) #

[Seshmeister]

[Seshmeister]

[Anonymous]

The Earth is scratching itself.

Cheers! :bottle:

[Anonymous]

"We're so self-important. So arrogant. Everybody's going to save something now. You know the people I'm talking about? The people who only think the world's fucked up because there aren't enough bicycle paths provided for their own habitat. Save the trees, save the bees, save the whales, save the snails. And the supreme arrogance? Save the planet! Are these people fucking kidding me? Save the planet? We don't even know how to take care of ourselves; we haven't learned how to care for one another. Yet, we're gonna save the fuckin' planet? . . . And, by the way, there's nothing wrong with the planet in the first place. The planet is fine. The people are fucked! Compared with the people, the planet is doin' great. It's been here over four billion years . . . The planet isn't goin' anywhere, folks. We are! We're goin' away. Pack your shit folks, we're goin' away. And we won't leave much of a trace. Thank God for that. Nothing left. Maybe a little Styrofoam and plastic bags. Maybe? The planet will be here, and we'll be gone. Another failed mutation; another closed-end biological mistake.The Earth will rejuvenate itself and shake us off like a bad case of fleas. Might be the answer to our age old question... Why are we here?? PLASTIC ASSHOLES!!! The Earth plus plastic." - George Carlin

That was... beautiful!

It's true, I can't stand all that "We need to save the Planet" bullshit. It really gets on my nerves. What the fuck do you think you are? Aren't you overreaching a bit? What next? Save the universe?

Shit. People really need to get down to earth, instead of trying to save it.

Cheers! :bottle:

[Nitro Express]

On a modern airliner they can follow the beam transmitted from the end of the runway and land automatically. In fact, this is why in the winter time planes tend to slide off the runway in bad weather because the auto landing does not know the runway has ice on it. You can fly a modern aircraft totally blind and land it blind if you have autopilot with auto land capability and radar. Of course in a small plane without the gizmos landing on a grass strip, it's a big fill the pants moment when the windscreen becomes opaque.