{"id":533533,"date":"2010-04-18T19:44:56","date_gmt":"2010-04-18T23:44:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/?p=4608"},"modified":"2010-04-18T19:44:56","modified_gmt":"2010-04-18T23:44:56","slug":"eyjafjallajokull-cosmic-variance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/533533","title":{"rendered":"Eyjafjallajokull! | Cosmic Variance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, I have tried, but <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/video\/world-15749633\/how-to-pronounce-eyjafjallajokull-19179699\">pronouncing this one<\/a> eludes me&#8230;I think it needs a new name. (Simply &#8220;Kull&#8221; 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&#8217;ve always wanted to use this word in a sentence) <a rel=\"nofollow\"  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>\n<p>The New York Times has some <a rel=\"nofollow\"  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>\n<p>Will they resume flights soon? I guess it&#8217;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>\n<p>Could it disrupt the climate? I am going to guess that this is a possibility, given that Mt. Pinatubo&#8217;s eruption in 1991 cooled the planet by a fraction of a degree. <\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/lkZ7TZLZ9zColqh5-YYrqqRcLC8\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/lkZ7TZLZ9zColqh5-YYrqqRcLC8\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap><\/a><br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/lkZ7TZLZ9zColqh5-YYrqqRcLC8\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/lkZ7TZLZ9zColqh5-YYrqqRcLC8\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/CosmicVarianceBlog\/~4\/kr7JNvFdwx8\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/DiscoverMag\/~4\/OavhKpas1AE\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, I have tried, but pronouncing this one eludes me&#8230;I think it needs a new name. (Simply &#8220;Kull&#8221; 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&#8217;ve always wanted to use this word in a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":641,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-533533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/641"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=533533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533533\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=533533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=533533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=533533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}