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November 9, 2010

Volcanic ash cuts short Obama visit

 Merapi ashfall

Worries that volcanic ash drifting across Indonesia might ground Air Force One have forced President Obama to cut short his visit to the Indonesian capital of Jakarta today. His departure was moved up by two hours.

Images of the ash leave no doubt that this is a serious eruption. It has killed 130 people and forced 300,000 more to flee. Airline schedules in the region have been disrupted by cancellations. Airborne ash sucked into jet engines can cause damage and shut them down.  

(PHOTOS: Reuters) 

Merapi ashfall

Posted by Frank Roylance at 12:40 PM | | Comments (3)
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china would like to annex indonesian, vietnamese, japanese & taiwanese islands in the hope for oil. In this trip Obama is cementing ties with indonesia and all potential allies against mao-dse-dung's successor led communist red china's currency manipulation & military moves against neighbors. Hillary visited vietnam recently to back them against china's moves against vietnamese islands.

According to at least one report, this may turn out to be a very big volcano although officials are "avoiding" the use of "mega-eruption" (rivaling Tambora in 1815 and the "year without summer".)

http://notrickszone.com/2010/11/05/der-spiegel-geologists-warn-mega-eruption/

I've wondered if a mega-eruption would put the "brakes" on global warming, at least for a while. If it could do that for a couple of years without seriously disrupting food production that might make a dent in the present warming trend?

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Frank Roylance is a reporter for The Baltimore Sun. He came to Baltimore from New Bedford, Mass. in 1980 to join the old Evening Sun. He moved to the morning Sun when the papers merged in 1992, and has spent most of his time since covering science, including astronomy and the weather. One of The Baltimore Sun's first online Web logs, the Weather Blog debuted in October 2004. In June 2006 Frank also began writing comments on local weather and stargazing for The Baltimore Sun's print Weather Page. Frank also answers readers’ weather queries for the newspaper and the blog. Frank Roylance retired in October 2011. Maryland Weather is now being updated by members of The Baltimore Sun staff
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