Chile Volcano Eruption - Amazing Pics
This astonishing picture shows the Chaiten volcano erupting during storms in the middle of the night
Of course, Bush did nothing to prevent this so it’s his fault.
May 9, 2008
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The carbon footprint of that mountain must be something!
Comment by E the Wise — May 9, 2008 @ 12:44 pm
Actually, the electric discharges are a result of the erruption — that is the causality here. The electric poentials were already priming themselves before erruption (volcano +, stratosphere -), but the cloud of erruption particles created the actual conduit for discharges.
Comment by LGJ — May 9, 2008 @ 12:52 pm
Thats what I was thinking. . . I just didn’t want to dazzle you with my wealth of knowledge about…umm… cloud eruption particles and conduits for discharge.
Comment by E the Wise — May 9, 2008 @ 1:25 pm
He’s right about the carbon footprint of the volcano though. Without volcanoes most of the CO2 in the atmosphere would long ago have been mineralized through chemical leaching of rocks. Now with people here to help we don need no steenking volcanoes to warm up the atmosphere.
Comment by Pangolin — May 9, 2008 @ 1:38 pm
That is if you ascribe to the theories of man made warming. I don’t.
Comment by E the Wise — May 9, 2008 @ 1:42 pm
It must be nice living in a fictional reality.
Do you get your own physics too? Tell us how those “lead into gold” experiments are working out for you.
Comment by Pangolin — May 9, 2008 @ 2:20 pm
Those are amazing pics. I’m fairly skeptical of the man-made aspect of global warming hyposthesis myself. Heck, Leif Erickson was picking grapes in Canada a thousand years ago…
Comment by Dave - the Infidel Sage — May 9, 2008 @ 7:07 pm
Possibly he knows something about global biology that you don’t seem to, Pangolin. Try reading up on the dynamics of biological entities for fixing excess CO2 and realize what a large CO2 trap the ocean itself is acting as:
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v444/n7120/full/nature05317.html
Of course, the fact that there are study showing how inaccurate a number of the temperature measuring sites are (due to equipment changes and relocations of the last couple of decades) and the greater impact of solar cycles are stuf that the ‘Man is evil’ crowd chooses to ignore. If you’d like to take the blinders off for a peek, you can peruse the following site for a lot of the hard science that refutes the ‘global warming’ simpletons: http://wattsupwiththat.wordpress.com/
Or my far less scholarly summation of some of this silliness here:
http://datatroll.wordpress.com/2008/02/01/the-nobel-peace-prize-continues-its-distinguished-run/
Comment by Mike O — May 9, 2008 @ 8:24 pm