Katla Building to New
Event, by Martin Armstrong, 9/25/18.
They claim that all
the world’s nations combined pumped nearly 38.2 billion tons of carbon dioxide
into the air from the burning of fossil fuels such as coal and oil, according
to new international calculations on global emissions published in the journal Nature
Climate Change.
That is 32 kilotons
per day when one volcano Katla, which is a huge hidden volcano 650 feet beneath
the ice cap in Iceland, is emitting 20 kilotons of C02 every day. There are
only two volcanoes worldwide that are known to emit more CO2, and now
scientists are concerned that Katla may be headed toward a major eruption.
Obviously, the UN
should be imposing a tax on Iceland for all this added Co2. Katla has had about
20 eruptions in the last 1100 years. There were eruptions which have been
documented in the years 920 and 1612, and from 1821 to 1823.
These latter eruptions
in the 19th century helped to cool the planet contributing to the mini ice age
at that time. The last eruption that actually broke through the ice cap
occurred in 1918.
There have been
subglacial flood events in 1955, 1999 and 2010-2011 that melted ice but it did
not break the surface. These events do create flooding as the ice melts.
Volcanic activity
produced two eruptions in 2010 at Eyjafjallajokull, on March 20 and April 14.
The second eruption created the giant ash cloud over Europe which diverted air
traffic.
The 1918 ash plume was
documented to have reached heights of 14 km. That event looked like a mushroom
cloud from an atomic bomb. It is hard to draw a conclusive model since the
majority of eruptions only melt ice beneath the surface.
The best we can do
with an approximation for the events that break through the surface puts it in
2020-2021 for the next ideal event. But the data series is not definitive on
this event. It does appear that Katla has become active again since 2010 and is
building to a climax. This could also be an event that contributes to global
cooling as we saw during the 19th century.
Norb Leahy, Dunwoody
GA Tea Party Leader
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