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Iceland volcanic eruption

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enginesrus

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Here is just one tiny spot on the planet that spews the so called bad stuff that dik is so into. There is more Co2 coming from here than would come from the all the ICE cars on the planet in 10 years or so.
Co2 is a good thing and is chosen as the problem because it is so prevalent and so necessary for plant life.

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Thanks enginesrus... it just adds to the problem...

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So strange to see the singularity approaching while the entire planet is rapidly turning into a hellscape. -John Coates

-Dik
 
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The earth is designed to produce Co2 if man is not generating enough of it. So the more they try to reduce it the more the earth will make.
 
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In the 90's, silicon based life forms were a hot topic for fantasy. Perhaps we should start emitting more SiO2.
 
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I always understood that sulphur dioxide (as emitted) from volcanic eruptions caused global cooling?

Politicians like to panic, they need activity. It is their substitute for achievement.
 
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Neat...

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So strange to see the singularity approaching while the entire planet is rapidly turning into a hellscape. -John Coates

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The eruptions near Grindavik, and related geophysics have a nature very different from the eruptions we followed here thread815-488556, thread815-491188, and others.

It seams like there are two rafts spreading apart with lava from below the crust moving in. This has resulted in the discovery that geophysicists in Iceland had been concerned for some time that a number of inhabited areas were built on highly fissured rock, which could be involved in fissure eruptions.

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth; Geodesy and Gravity/Tectonophysics; Fracture populations on the Reykjanes Peninsula, Iceland: Comparison with experimental clay models of oblique rifting; Amy E. Clifton, Roy W. Schlische First published: 05 February 2003 and attached.

The events have resulted interesting engineering (also social and governance) questions in all sorts of interesting subjects being debated in the public media.

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