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vision-master
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 Posted: Sat Aug 09, 2008 6:31 am Post subject: Alaska volcano blows |
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ORIGINAL CAPTIONS: View of Okmok's ash plume emitting from multiple vents near intracaldera Cone D, taken at about 1:30 pm on August 3, 2008. (Jessica Larsen/ Alaska Volcano Observatory / University of Alaska Fairbanks, Geophysical Institute). |
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ProudFossil
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| Posted: Sat Aug 09, 2008 8:49 am Post subject: Re: Alaska volcano blows |
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| What is its carbon footprint? Does this mean I can drive my SUV again? |
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essex
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| Posted: Sat Aug 09, 2008 1:16 pm Post subject: Re: Alaska volcano blows |
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| Spectacular photo. Ruapehu in NZ did the same in 1995. |
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Fiddlerdave
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| Posted: Sat Aug 09, 2008 1:36 pm Post subject: Re: Alaska volcano blows |
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| ProudFossil wrote: | | What is its carbon footprint? Does this mean I can drive my SUV again? |
Don't worry. Humanity is still far ahead of the volcanoes in carbon. But this did shorten our remaining time a bit. |
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Micki
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| Posted: Sat Aug 09, 2008 7:27 pm Post subject: Re: Alaska volcano blows |
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Spewing ashes into the atmosphere has a cooling effect on climate as it blocks the suns rays.
On top of that we are having the lousies greyest rainest winter in at least 10 years down in Melbourne Australia.
Bring me some of that GW now or I'll move out of this damp place!
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Lore
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| Posted: Sat Aug 09, 2008 7:41 pm Post subject: Re: Alaska volcano blows |
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| Micki wrote: | Spewing ashes into the atmosphere has a cooling effect on climate as it blocks the suns rays.
On top of that we are having the lousies greyest rainest winter in at least 10 years down in Melbourne Australia.
Bring me some of that GW now or I'll move out of this damp place! |
Really... sounds like you need all the rain you can get?
| Quote: | Melbourne’s storages had a positive start to August, with above average rain over the catchments lifting storage levels by 0.4% or just over 7 billion litres.
Storages are now 31% (549,426 million litres) full, but remain below where they were at the same time in 2007 by 4.9%, when there was 636,048 million litres in storage.
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Micki
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| Posted: Sat Aug 09, 2008 8:03 pm Post subject: Re: Alaska volcano blows |
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Yeah, sure, I guess it is good then.
It's just that 4 weeks of showers and drizzles is starting to take it's toll.
Not much seems to land in the catchements though. The other week I heard an estimate that Melbourne would have tough water restrictions at least for the coming 8 years.
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gampy
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| Posted: Sat Aug 09, 2008 10:22 pm Post subject: Re: Alaska volcano blows |
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I wonder what the composition of that plume is?
I mean the ratio of ash, CO2, sulphur, etc?
Nice photo though, it's rather humbling to see Mother Earth do her thing, no?
We are just farking ants, man. Something to be squashed. |
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Cabrone
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| Posted: Sun Aug 10, 2008 7:42 am Post subject: Re: Alaska volcano blows |
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That's interesting Micki because it seems that other parts of SE Australia are suffering serious water shortages.
| Quote: | | Australia's epic drought is tightening its grip as a deepening ecological crisis unfolds in the south of the country. After seven years of the Big Dry, water levels in lakes at the mouth of the mighty Murray river have fallen by up to 50cm below sea level and environmental damage is spreading on a massive scale, according to conservationists. |
Big Dry' claims River Murray lakes
How is this going to affect Australian farming outpu? |
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Kingcoal
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| Posted: Sun Aug 10, 2008 12:19 pm Post subject: Re: Alaska volcano blows |
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Maybe the earth is trying to tell us something. Link
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Micki
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| Posted: Sun Aug 10, 2008 6:07 pm Post subject: Re: Alaska volcano blows |
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| Cabrone wrote: | That's interesting Micki because it seems that other parts of SE Australia are suffering serious water shortages.
| Quote: | | Australia's epic drought is tightening its grip as a deepening ecological crisis unfolds in the south of the country. After seven years of the Big Dry, water levels in lakes at the mouth of the mighty Murray river have fallen by up to 50cm below sea level and environmental damage is spreading on a massive scale, according to conservationists. |
Big Dry' claims River Murray lakes
How is this going to affect Australian farming outpu? |
As mentioned one of the big problems has been rains missing catchments. SW Western Australia and Victoria (SE corner of Australia) and Tassie are getting plenty of water every winter but the catchments are further inland. Samething in QLD where I have my holiday spot. Our garden grows beautifully there and yet there are serious water restrictions because of draught.
Murray river runs quite far inland and is dependent on runoffs from high country etc. It is in serious trouble buyt they are looking at ways of diverting water to it from other areas.
The river mouth in South Australia is hardly flowing over the sandbanks so the whole river is also at risk of coming to a standstill.
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Cid_Yama
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| Posted: Mon Aug 11, 2008 10:05 pm Post subject: Re: Alaska volcano blows |
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The main problem is the ash is falling on the Arctic and Greenland ice caps changing the albedo. The darkened ash is absorbing additional heat rather than reflecting the sunlight.
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Iaato
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| Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2008 12:27 am Post subject: Re: Alaska volcano blows |
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The main problem is that my husband is stuck out in Adak. They canceled flights Thursday and Sunday. He's taking a boat to Dutch Harbour to see if he can get out from there. There tend to be lots of weather cancellations from Adak, but these eruptions aren't helping. There are three different volcanos firing off out there right now.
http://www.adn.com/news/alaska/story/490210.html
The joys of peak oil travel, with inconsistent, expensive travel ($1500 ticket from Anchorage).
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