{"id":15276,"date":"2010-04-18T23:44:56","date_gmt":"2010-04-18T23:44:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/eyjafjallajokull-cosmic-variance\/"},"modified":"2010-04-18T23:44:56","modified_gmt":"2010-04-18T23:44:56","slug":"eyjafjallajokull-cosmic-variance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/eyjafjallajokull-cosmic-variance.php","title":{"rendered":"Eyjafjallajokull! | Cosmic Variance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, I have tried, but <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/video\/world-15749633\/how-to-pronounce-eyjafjallajokull-19179699\">pronouncing this one<\/a> eludes me&hellip;I think it needs a new name. (Simply &ldquo;Kull&rdquo; might do.) This eruption, though not the largest volcanic event in recent history, has certainly had a huge impact on air travel. Initially, there were even fears of (I&rsquo;ve always wanted to use this word in a sentence) <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicavolcanoconiosis-best-word-EVER-\/353771402667\">pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicavolcanoconiosis<\/a> from breathing the silica dust. But the last I heard was that not that much was making it to the ground in high enough concentrations to worry about.<\/p><p>The New York Times has some <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/thelede.blogs.nytimes.com\/2010\/04\/18\/new-video-from-under-the-volcano\/\">amazing video<\/a>, relayed from British TV 4, which is absolutely a must-see. It is some of the closest scenes yet, though the video clearly shows some crazies in a helicopter very close to the plume. I want to see night shots, with the lightning!<\/p><p>Will they resume flights soon? I guess it&rsquo;s too early to say, but what if it keeps spewing for a long time, like it did from 1821-1823? (After which nearby Katla went off.)<\/p><p>Could it disrupt the climate? I am going to guess that this is a possibility, given that Mt. Pinatubo&rsquo;s eruption in 1991 cooled the planet by a fraction of a degree. <\/p><p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/lkZ7TZLZ9zColqh5-YYrqqRcLC8\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/d1f33_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><br><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/lkZ7TZLZ9zColqh5-YYrqqRcLC8\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/d1f33_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><\/p><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/3e3fe_kr7JNvFdwx8\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/3e3fe_OavhKpas1AE\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, I have tried, but pronouncing this one eludes me&hellip;I think it needs a new name. (Simply &ldquo;Kull&rdquo; might do.) This eruption, though not the largest volcanic event in recent history, has certainly had a huge impact on air travel. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/eyjafjallajokull-cosmic-variance.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15276"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15276\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}