PersianPaladin

Best thing Consett's ever contributed to the world lol. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/apple/7606722/Volcanic-ash-cloud-Trapped-Norwegian-PM-ran-country-on-iPad.html

Great video from ITN: - http://uk.news.yahoo.com/4/20100419/video/vhd-spectacular-footage-from-above-the-v-686f718.html

Perhaps the ash can travel over the middle east and ground NATO flights, and Israeli Apache gunships.

People in this country don't care enough about green issues. Most people are ignorant of peak oil as well as the need to transfer to a steady-state economy.

REPENT MR.BROWN! REPENT!

Last major eruption of Katla was 1918...so no. Seismic activity there does occur from time to time: - http://www.earthice.hi.is/page/ies_katla1918

This eruption is Gordon Brown's fault.

What study? Where was it published and who funded it?

Reading about it now - it turns out that air travel was disrupted for up to 2 weeks. Mind you, that was a very big eruption.

What happened to the aviation situation in the USA after Mt. Saint Helens erupted? Perhaps the current situation here in Europe is exaggerated?

Live webcam of the volcano: - http://eldgos.mila.is/eyjafjallajokull-fra-thorolfsfelli/

Yup. And humbling.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/democracylive/hi/scotland/newsid_8623000/8623115.stm

Shame they didn't have gas masks back then.. In case anybody wants to know anything about the health threat: - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8622362.stm

So...we shouldn't go outside then in the next few days?

Very interesting that it would have that affect given the cloud-heights suggested by those radar echo's.

Interesting: - http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/2zrDOc/greenopolis.com/goblog/jerryjamesstone/wind-farms-create-their-own-clouds/r:f

http://www.dailyexpress.co.uk/posts/view/168238/Weather-Make-the-most-of-glorious-spring-sunshine-before-April-showers-set-in

Makes for a nice regional contrast though

I have a fair complexion, although it only takes about 10 minutes of sun for me to look rather swarthy. Although its kind of strange, because sometimes I can expose my arms to the sun for just a few minutes and I end up burning - whilst the back of my neck goes very dark. Generally, I don't like going out in the sun for more than a few minutes at a time, and prefer to stay in cool shade of trees, umbrellas or an office/home.

There are actually quite a variety of synoptic and also meso-scale conditions which influence the nature of haar coming in off the east coast (in terms of cloud height, type, etc). Also it can sometimes be rather refreshing if you're about 10 miles inland and you see the unique strato-cumulus formations moving in from the coast towards evening heralding a light but cool breeze greatly lowering the temperature.

Great pics. Some interesting convective development over the middle-east.

What cold?

Well; the scientific method is about the pursuit of objective truth isn't it? Sadly, we live in a society where information is mediated by a process that some call "intellectual filetting" where a narrow aspect or context of the science gets presented by the media or by politicians or by public-relations groups. For example, we had that National Science Foundation press-release about the methane-release issue in the Siberian Arctic and with various media repeating the story. However, it required investing some time to realise that the degree of impact of Siberian methane on climate-change is contested. In some way, that is a good minor intellectual exercise of connecting the dots. But in another sense, its a waste of the publics' time in terms of being accurately informed about the degree in which a subject is contested, understood, promoted, etc. Politics in my view, should be de-centralised but thats not for this forum.

Okay...the Oxford English dictionary definition is "general agreement" in terms of consensus. Defining "general agreement" is problematic. I reckon the word "consensus" is a tad confusing because of its variety of contextual experiences: - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consensus I can admit to being misled about its actual meaning in the scientific sphere. If it means "majority" then of course, it doesn't mean its right. And sometimes in political spheres we experience a phenomenon known as "groupthink": - http://www.psysr.org...%20overview.htm And as for eugenics, yes I did take their arguments seriously. However, I firstly reject them because they are not based on simple observations of what occurs as is in the natural and human-constructed world outside the realm of ideology. It is instead an elitist ideology using some contested scientific theory to try and support its advocacy. My main reason for rejecting eugenics is that I find it morally abhorrent. Global warming theory, on the other hand - does not construe an ideology (albeit some right-wing anti-government groups will tell you its a sinister plot) but is instead a series of observations regarding our impact on the natural world. Whether such data goes on and becomes misrepresented, obfuscated, etc by media and politicians is most likely a result of the corporate/hierarchical control over the dissemination of information which special interests may use to protect their own agenda.