If you were thinking of jumping on a plane this weekend and flitting off to the French Riviera for some sun ’n’ champagne, you’d better shift to Plan B.
Seems a giant ash cloud from a volcano in Iceland has shut down most air traffic over Europe. And could keep it shut down for a while.
This is serious, folks.
Two-thirds of Europe’s flights have been cancelled. For that matter, also nixed are many European flights to and from the U.S. The economic losses are estimated at $200 million per day.
And it’s no picnic in Iceland either. Heat from the volcano has melted a glacier, causing massive flooding.
Yikes. Mother Nature is getting cranky.
As bad as it is, there’s nothing anyone can do about. No environmental agency can fine the volcano or order it to stop churning out tons of ash.
On top of everything, the name of the darned volcano is unpronounceable:
Eyjafjallajokull.
The only bright side I can see is that ash-cloud cooling has just trumped global warming for a while.
But the cure seems worse than the disease.
What a mess. Whoever thought that tiny Iceland could cause so many problems?
Friday, April 16, 2010
Ice land, ash air
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That would be The Doctor Carroll Butch Thomas Ash Cloud to you, comrade.
Does Doctor Carroll Butch Thomas fly a personal flag from the fender of his chauffeured car?
Iceland has no ice, only a raging volcano ,melting the wings off unsuspecting flyover birds. Greenland, on the other hand, is coated with ice, snow, and rednosed residents. And there is nothing green whatever hardly.
It's all America's fault.
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