Iceland volcano

[Peter Lemkin]

Eyjafjallajökull (pronounced [ˈɛɪjaˌfjalaˌjœːkʏtl̥], translated as "island-mountains glacier") ( listen (help·info)) is one of the smaller glaciers of Iceland, situated to the north of Skógar and to the west of Mýrdalsjökull. The icecap of the glacier covers a volcano with a summit elevation of 1,666 metres (5,466 ft). The volcano has erupted relatively frequently since the last glacial period.[1]

The glacier covers an area of about 100 square kilometres (39 sq mi). The south end of the mountain was once part of the island's Atlantic coastline, but the sea has since retreated some 5 kilometres (3.1 mi), with the former coastline now forming sheer cliffs with a multitude of beautiful waterfalls, of which the best known is Skógafoss. In strong winds, the water of the smaller falls can even be blown up the mountain.

The volcano, which has a crater 3–4 kilometres (1.9–2.5 mi) in diameter, erupted in 920, 1612 and again from 1821 to 1823 when it caused a fatal glacial lake outburst flood.[2] Most recently it erupted twice in 2010—on 20 March and 14 April. The March event forced a brief evacuation of around 500 local people,[3][4] but the April eruption was ten to twenty times more powerful and caused massive disruption to air traffic across Northern Europe.

----if, as like the last time this volanco 'only' erupted for 'only' 3 years...no problemo for the aircraft corporations......they have all of my crocodile:bandit: tears.

[Paul Rigby]

Gaia vs. Capitalism? Or NATO using our Gaia gullibility?

http://ahrcanum.wordpress.com/2010/04/15...-continue/

One of the largest NATO military drills is being held today, rather conveniently while volcanic ash is keeping all commercial aircraft on the ground around the U.K. That won’t stop one of the world’s largest military exercises from going forward though.

[Paul Rigby]

http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/for...ead=171305

"We have not found anything unusual and no irregularities, which indicates the atmosphere is clean and safe to fly," said a spokeswoman for KLM, which is part of Air France-KLM.

German airline Air Berlin said it had also carried out test flights and expressed irritation at the shutdown of European air space.

"We are amazed that the results of the test flights done by Lufthansa and Air Berlin have not had any bearing on the decision-making of the air safety authorities," Chief Executive Joachim Hunold said.

http://www.vancouversun.com/news/Test+fl...story.html

[Helen Reyes]

I haven't tracked down the source on this, but I heard EUropean airspace was shut down based on a single prognosis from the UK. Probably not from East Anglia's CRU, but nonetheless. As far as I've heard, there is no reduced visibility anywhere in Europe, no sign of ash, no ashfalls. Perhaps another case of British foot-in-mouth disease, i.e., overkill. Perhaps something deeper at work. Unsourced rumours have it there is a NATO air, sea and land exercise taking place somewhere in the zone allegedly choked with ash.

grapevine.is has some new photos up of an expedition into the ash-cloud on Iceland.

[Paul Rigby]

I haven't tracked down the source on this, but I heard EUropean airspace was shut down based on a single prognosis from the UK. Probably not from East Anglia's CRU...

The Met Office, Helen, appears to have been the central node of this classic psy-op. A safe bet: The entire got-up nonsense will be over by the end of the NATO exercise.

Now, repeat after me, Dunkirk, Dunkirk, Dunkirk. Naval flottilla. War-time unity atmosphere.

And so on and so forth.

[Paul Rigby]

http://www.rense.com/general90/volcd.htm

Volcanic Ash, Computer Simulations And Air Panic

By F. William Engdahl

Author of Full Spectrum Dominance: Totalitarian Democracy in the New World Order

4-19-10

Since the eruption of the Eyjafjallajoekull volcano in Iceland on April 14 air traffic across Europe had been grounded causing staggering losses to businesses and airlines as well as incalculable personal hardships. There are some very serious reasons to question whether the total flight ban was necessary.

The danger, we are told, is real. Volcanic particles harder than steel but not visible to weather radar could damage the engines of aircraft and cause crashes. Yet serious questions are beginning to be raised as to whether the first ever continental flight ban in the history of world aviation was necessary.

First, as Joachim Hunold, CEO of Germany's second largest carrier, Air Berlin, stated in Bild am Sonntag, "not one single weather ballon has been put up in Germany to measure if and how much volcanic ash there is in the air. The closing of the airspace is entirely based on the results of a computer simulation at the Volcanic Ash Advisory Centre (VAAC) in England."

One veteran Air France pilot, Steven Savignol, told me,"I can tell you from my own experience that with blue skies, aircrafts can fly perfectly and very safely. They made test flights with Air France, KLM, Lufthansa and of course, all is ok!"

Met Office Computer simulations

It turns out that the VAAC in England is working from a "computer simulation," and has not even conducted an actual sky ash measurement. The agency responsible for Volcanic Ash measurement for the region, including Iceland, is Britain's "Met Office," the UK's National Weather Service, which in turn is a Trading Fund within the Ministry of Defence, operating on a commercial basis under set targets according to their website.

German Transportation Minister Peter Ramsauer (CSU) told Germany's Der Spiegel, "... Berlin as other European governments are bound to the international regulations regarding volcano eruptions and the estimates of the Volcanic Ash Advisory Centre in London." The citation of 'London' by a responsible EU transportation minister is itself a bit puzzling as VAAC is in Exeter, not in London.

What we are witnessing here is not a law or a regulation that has been tested in experience with previous volcanoes and air flights. This is a policy drawn up by the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO), which created the worldwide VAAC stations in 1993 to monitor volcanic eruptions and their effects. The ICAO Exeter office data is then interpreted and enforced by the UK's National Air Traffic Service (NATS). That interpretation needs a closer look.

In September 2009 the ICAO published a 'Contingency plan for handling traffic in the event of volcanic ash penetrating the airspace of North Atlantic Region'. The guidelines make no distinction at all between major or minor eruptions. Nor do they take into account the dilution effect as the cloud spreads from the original point. The only reference is to generic "dust clouds," without any attempt to carry out a risk assessment.

Using as its model the largest and most dangerous of Icelandic volcanoes, the Katla volcano, ICAO offered a series of procedures for monitoring and tracking volcano ash clouds and for 'advice' to be given to airlines in the event of a volcano eruption.

The current eruption is a relatively minor one certainly not in the league of Katla. Yet it is worth noting that for even the most serious of possible eruptions, the plan issued by the IOCA involved re-routing aircraft around, or under dust plumes, not banning all air flights as has occurred with this recent eruption.

Most of Europe and large parts of the rest of the world flying European airspace has been scared into believing that to fly would be madness. To fly beneath the cloud until clear of it would mean burning more fuel. Low-flying to simply avoid the danger of ash being sucked into the jet engines is a temporary solution. Steve Wood, Chief Pilot at Sussex and Surrey Air Ambulance, describes the measures being taken as 'a complete overreaction.' Modern jet aircraft engines are robust, they must be, says Air France's Savignol. They have to face not only the hazards of bird strikes, but rain, hail and even salt spray on take-off from coastal airports. Furthermore, sand is a common hazard from dust storms and from desert airfields.

Some aircraft are better equipped than others to deal with high-dust conditions, and consultation with aircraft and engine manufacturers might have enabled more precise restrictions to be imposed, rather than a blanket ban. But a spokesman for England's NATS admitted: 'We don't really deal with particular manufacturers.' They were more concerned with 'applying the international regulations.'

The blanket ban under clear blue skies and glorious sunshine across Europe is making some wonder whether there is something else going on under the cover of earthquake eruptions, such as a test run to shut down air travel internationally. Since no one has ever been injured from an aircraft disabled by a volcanic eruption, it is a question that lingers. The absolute ban is an over-reaction, at a minimum, and shows poor judgment. One can only speculate if other agendas are involved.

[Ed Jewett]

Did anyone see the "quote of the day" the other day at WhatReallyHappened[dot]com? Here it is:

“There are some reports, for example, that some countries have been trying to construct something like an Ebola Virus, and that would be a very dangerous phenomenon, to say the least. Alvin Toeffler has written about this in terms of some scientists in their laboratories trying to devise certain types of pathogens that would be ethnic specific so that they could just eliminate certain ethnic groups and races; and others are designing some sort of engineering, some sort of insects that can destroy specific crops. Others are engaging even in an eco-type of terrorism whereby they can alter the climate, set off earthquakes, volcanoes remotely through the use of electromagnetic waves.”
~ Secretary of Defense William S. Cohen, Department of Defense Briefing , April 28, 1997

[Magda Hassan]

I haven't tracked down the source on this, but I heard EUropean airspace was shut down based on a single prognosis from the UK. Probably not from East Anglia's CRU...

The Met Office, Helen, appears to have been the central node of this classic psy-op. A safe bet: The entire got-up nonsense will be over by the end of the NATO exercise.

Now, repeat after me, Dunkirk, Dunkirk, Dunkirk. Naval flottilla. War-time unity atmosphere.

And so on and so forth.

Did you say Dunkirk?
Dunkirk-style mission to rescue stranded Britons runs into trouble

[Paul Rigby]

Did you say Dunkirk?
Dunkirk-style mission to rescue stranded Britons runs into trouble

As a very famous fat guy once observed:

"Never before, in the history of human psy-ops, has so little ash grounded so many non-military planes..."

He then offers two-fingers to the public.

[David Guyatt]

http://www.rense.com/general90/volcd.htm

Volcanic Ash, Computer Simulations And Air Panic

By F. William Engdahl

Author of Full Spectrum Dominance: Totalitarian Democracy in the New World Order

4-19-10

Since the eruption of the Eyjafjallajoekull volcano in Iceland on April 14 air traffic across Europe had been grounded causing staggering losses to businesses and airlines as well as incalculable personal hardships. There are some very serious reasons to question whether the total flight ban was necessary.

The danger, we are told, is real. Volcanic particles harder than steel but not visible to weather radar could damage the engines of aircraft and cause crashes. Yet serious questions are beginning to be raised as to whether the first ever continental flight ban in the history of world aviation was necessary.

First, as Joachim Hunold, CEO of Germany's second largest carrier, Air Berlin, stated in Bild am Sonntag, "not one single weather ballon has been put up in Germany to measure if and how much volcanic ash there is in the air. The closing of the airspace is entirely based on the results of a computer simulation at the Volcanic Ash Advisory Centre (VAAC) in England."

One veteran Air France pilot, Steven Savignol, told me,"I can tell you from my own experience that with blue skies, aircrafts can fly perfectly and very safely. They made test flights with Air France, KLM, Lufthansa and of course, all is ok!"

Met Office Computer simulations

It turns out that the VAAC in England is working from a "computer simulation," and has not even conducted an actual sky ash measurement. The agency responsible for Volcanic Ash measurement for the region, including Iceland, is Britain's "Met Office," the UK's National Weather Service, which in turn is a Trading Fund within the Ministry of Defence, operating on a commercial basis under set targets according to their website.

German Transportation Minister Peter Ramsauer (CSU) told Germany's Der Spiegel, "... Berlin as other European governments are bound to the international regulations regarding volcano eruptions and the estimates of the Volcanic Ash Advisory Centre in London." The citation of 'London' by a responsible EU transportation minister is itself a bit puzzling as VAAC is in Exeter, not in London.

What we are witnessing here is not a law or a regulation that has been tested in experience with previous volcanoes and air flights. This is a policy drawn up by the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO), which created the worldwide VAAC stations in 1993 to monitor volcanic eruptions and their effects. The ICAO Exeter office data is then interpreted and enforced by the UK's National Air Traffic Service (NATS). That interpretation needs a closer look.

In September 2009 the ICAO published a 'Contingency plan for handling traffic in the event of volcanic ash penetrating the airspace of North Atlantic Region'. The guidelines make no distinction at all between major or minor eruptions. Nor do they take into account the dilution effect as the cloud spreads from the original point. The only reference is to generic "dust clouds," without any attempt to carry out a risk assessment.

Using as its model the largest and most dangerous of Icelandic volcanoes, the Katla volcano, ICAO offered a series of procedures for monitoring and tracking volcano ash clouds and for 'advice' to be given to airlines in the event of a volcano eruption.

The current eruption is a relatively minor one certainly not in the league of Katla. Yet it is worth noting that for even the most serious of possible eruptions, the plan issued by the IOCA involved re-routing aircraft around, or under dust plumes, not banning all air flights as has occurred with this recent eruption.

Most of Europe and large parts of the rest of the world flying European airspace has been scared into believing that to fly would be madness. To fly beneath the cloud until clear of it would mean burning more fuel. Low-flying to simply avoid the danger of ash being sucked into the jet engines is a temporary solution. Steve Wood, Chief Pilot at Sussex and Surrey Air Ambulance, describes the measures being taken as 'a complete overreaction.' Modern jet aircraft engines are robust, they must be, says Air France's Savignol. They have to face not only the hazards of bird strikes, but rain, hail and even salt spray on take-off from coastal airports. Furthermore, sand is a common hazard from dust storms and from desert airfields.

Some aircraft are better equipped than others to deal with high-dust conditions, and consultation with aircraft and engine manufacturers might have enabled more precise restrictions to be imposed, rather than a blanket ban. But a spokesman for England's NATS admitted: 'We don't really deal with particular manufacturers.' They were more concerned with 'applying the international regulations.'

The blanket ban under clear blue skies and glorious sunshine across Europe is making some wonder whether there is something else going on under the cover of earthquake eruptions, such as a test run to shut down air travel internationally. Since no one has ever been injured from an aircraft disabled by a volcanic eruption, it is a question that lingers. The absolute ban is an over-reaction, at a minimum, and shows poor judgment. One can only speculate if other agendas are involved.

Lord Adonis, the "travel" Minister repeatedly stated in various news interviews that we Brits were simply adhering to international regulations that were in force across Europe. At no point did he ever come close to suggesting that it was a British government entity that was responsible for this curious chaos.

And yes, it seems entirely preposterous that such an extended travel ban could take place for the reasons cited - and that there was, therefore, something more sinister behind all this. That 'something', whatever it may be, has brought financial ruin to many holiday makers and traveling public as well.

Of course we could write it off as cock up and not something darker, as the media are always ready to do no matter what the evidence.

Engdahl's final paragraph strikes a chord of reality when it is realized that the executive management of Blighty Plc always drop their undergarments for big business, a practice that is accompanied with a coy smile but is always in exchange for returned favours. In this case big business were told to fuck off not matter what blandishments were offered, and in the end it was simply the case of airlines deciding to ignore the ban and fly under their own risk that brought the Rixian farce to a close.

What was it all really about I wonder?