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Re: Climate change increasing risks of lightning-ignited fires

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On 6/9/18 3:00 PM, benj wrote:
>> Well, now that you mention it ... I'm a bit of a volcanologist in my 
>> spare
>> time, and I recall reading somewhere that there was a brief but intense
>> spate of volcanism in Iceland early in the Holocene, just as most of the
>> ice mantling the island melted. The effect was like uncorking a champagne
>> bottle.
>>
>> Thing is, there's still a few volcanoes under heavy ice. Several in
>> Siberia's Kamchatka Peninsula, Mt. Erebus in Antarctica, likely some
>> unmapped ones(!) buried beneath the Antarctic ice sheet, and a couple
>> in ... Iceland. One is by some measures the world's largest volcano, 
>> named
>> Bardarbunga, and it sits directly on top of one of the three strongest
>> mantle plumes in the planet (the others are beneath Hawaii and Africa's
>> Nyiragongo volcano). And the ice covering Bardarbunga, at least, is
>> apparently melting rapidly now due to global warming.
>>
>> It already had a minor eruption, in 2014. Minor by its standards, that 
>> is.
>> It shat out 1.5 cubic kilometers of lava that flooded a large tract of
>> Upper Bumfuck, Nowhere, and farted out a noxious cloud of sulfur dioxide
>> that rendered half of Iceland uninhabitable for months.
>>
>> Your gas-guzzling SUV has contributed to turning Bardarbunga into a
>> ticking bomb, kooky, and sooner or later it will go up like the Fourth of
>> July and make 2014's eruption look like a kitchen spigot next to Niagara
>> Falls by comparison. That will pave over half of Iceland in lava and 
>> gas a
>> goodly chunk of the Northern Hemisphere.
>>
>> You might want to think about maybe cutting back a bit on the fuel
>> consumption ... or maybe moving to Australia or New Zealand. No, wait, 
>> New
>> Zealand has volcanoes, nevermind. Australia it is, then. You'll probably
>> fit right in there. The British once used the whole continent as a giant
>> insane asylum, and to judge by the burblings of a certain "murphy", they
>> still (covertly) do.
>>
>> <snicker>
>>
> Sorry but Oz is filled with clowns even dumber than you! (Yeah I know 
> that does not seem possible. Trust me.) Just read Trevor's posts if you 
> don't believe me. Anyway, no volcanoes where I live and now it's quite 
> comfy thanks to "global warming" which melted the mile of ice above my 
> house! Let's hear it for "climate change", nutjob!
> 
> Chortle (rule #5)

Man-made global climate change is very well supported, but noting it is 
warm around you as evidence is like people who say the snow around them 
is counter-evidence.

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Climate change increasing risks of lightning-ignited fires kensi <kkensington01@gmail.nospam.invalid> - 2018-06-09 06:25 -0400
  Re: Climate change increasing risks of lightning-ignited fires benj <benj@nobody.net> - 2018-06-09 12:11 -0400
    Re: Climate change increasing risks of lightning-ignited fires Sergio <invalid@invalid.com> - 2018-06-09 15:21 -0500
      Re: Climate change increasing risks of lightning-ignited fires Nadegda <nad318b404@gmail.invalid> - 2018-06-09 20:40 +0000
        Re: Climate change increasing risks of lightning-ignited fires benj <benj@nobody.net> - 2018-06-09 18:06 -0400
          Re: Climate change increasing risks of lightning-ignited fires Nadegda <nad318b404@gmail.invalid> - 2018-06-09 22:31 +0000
            Re: Climate change increasing risks of lightning-ignited fires Checkmate <ricksabian1@gmail.com> - 2018-06-09 16:03 -0700
            Re: Climate change increasing risks of lightning-ignited fires benj <benj@nobody.net> - 2018-06-09 22:32 -0400
              Re: Climate change increasing risks of lightning-ignited fires Sergio <invalid@invalid.com> - 2018-06-10 19:00 -0500
                Re: Climate change increasing risks of lightning-ignited fires Nadegda <nad318b404@gmail.invalid> - 2018-06-11 02:26 +0000
                Re: Climate change increasing risks of lightning-ignited fires benj <benj@nobody.net> - 2018-06-11 11:35 -0400
                Re: Climate change increasing risks of lightning-ignited fires Sergio <invalid@invalid.com> - 2018-06-11 14:11 -0500
      Plants are thriving in this wetter, warmer, CarbonDioxide climate. Jeff-Relf.Me  @. - 2018-06-09 14:25 -0700
        Re: Plants are thriving in this wetter, warmer, CarbonDioxide climate. benj <benj@nobody.net> - 2018-06-09 18:08 -0400
        Re: Plants are thriving in this wetter, warmer, CarbonDioxide climate. Sergio <invalid@invalid.com> - 2018-06-09 18:47 -0500
    Re: Climate change increasing risks of lightning-ignited fires Nadegda <nad318b404@gmail.invalid> - 2018-06-09 20:31 +0000
      Re: Climate change increasing risks of lightning-ignited fires Wally W. <ww84wa@aim.com> - 2018-06-09 17:36 -0400
        Re: Climate change increasing risks of lightning-ignited fires benj <benj@nobody.net> - 2018-06-09 17:49 -0400
        Re: Climate change increasing risks of lightning-ignited fires Nadegda <nad318b404@gmail.invalid> - 2018-06-09 22:32 +0000
          Re: Climate change increasing risks of lightning-ignited fires Checkmate <ricksabian1@gmail.com> - 2018-06-09 16:05 -0700
            Re: Climate change increasing risks of lightning-ignited fires vallor <vallor@cultnix.org> - 2018-06-09 23:23 +0000
              " I know better than the market; every detail, always ". Jeff-Relf.Me  @. - 2018-06-09 17:02 -0700
                Re: " I know better than the market; every detail, always ". % <persent@gmail.com> - 2018-06-09 17:13 -0700
      Re: Climate change increasing risks of lightning-ignited fires benj <benj@nobody.net> - 2018-06-09 18:00 -0400
        Re: Climate change increasing risks of lightning-ignited fires Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2018-06-09 15:18 -0700
        Re: Climate change increasing risks of lightning-ignited fires Nadegda <nad318b404@gmail.invalid> - 2018-06-09 22:34 +0000

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