I imagine that most of you have already heard and read about the recent
eruption of Iceland's Eyjafjallajokull volcano.

Due to winds blowing southeastward from Iceland, the high-level layer of
volcanic ash that has been generated by Eyjafjallajokull has absolutely
paralyzed air traffic in Great Britain -- and most of Europe -- for the past
four days. In fact, the volcanic ash from Eyjafjallajokull is affecting
worldwide air traffic, because at the current time, no airlines can send
airplanes to Great Britain or Europe. This has resulted in major disruptions
worldwide for businesses, for governments, for a wide variety of artists --
actors, musicians, etc., for students, for people on vacation, and for
everyone in between. Hundreds of thousands of people have been stranded --
including world leaders -- and many thousands of flights have been suspended
worldwide, while they wait for the ash cloud to dissipate.

But there is a problem: No one really knows when the current eruption will
end. It could go on for days, weeks or even months before Eyjafjallajokull
quiets down again.

What I find so amazing about this development is that the powers-that-be
want to be so in control of the environment, and of everything and everyone
around them; and yet, with the eruption of this one volcano, everything is
brought to an absolute standstill, and world governments are helpless to do
anything about it. All they can do is wait.

The tragedy of this situation, is that the way that most people view this
event -- this releasing of the tremendous power of nature by God's Hand --
is through the lens of financial loss. Now how sad is that? All they care
and think about is how much money they will lose. Well, they wanted a global
economy!

Below is an interview with a noted Icelandic photographer who has taken some
pictures of Eyjafjallajokull volcano. Even though he has been photographing
volcanoes for thirty years, even he is in awe of this eruption.

Just to give you an idea of the power of this eruption, Mr. Sigurdsson --
the photographer -- states that it has created a rip in the Earth's crust
that is "about 5,000 meters wide and 2 kilometers long". Converted into
miles, that is a hole almost three miles wide by over a mile long.

Simply amazing!


Photographing Iceland's Fiery Volcano

By JAMES ESTRIN - NYT

April 18, 2010


Iceland's Eyjafjallajokull volcano had been dormant for nearly two centuries
before Ragnar Th. Sigurdsson, 51, flew to the scene on March 21 to
photograph its first stirrings. Mr. Sigurdson returned to the scene and made
these dramatic photographs last night and this morning.

Mr. Sigurdsson has spent 30 years photographing the temperamental landscape
of Iceland, as Kerri MacDonald reported Thursday in Lens. But until this
morning he had never seen anything like the volcano that is tying up air
traffic in much of Europe.

We reached Mr. Sigurdsson by telephone this evening and asked him to tell us
what it was like to be face to face with the volcano.

"This is not my first volcano, I've been shooting them for 30 years. We have
an average of one eruption every five years but these eruptions are
different from the rest. The first one in March, which stopped a few days
ago, had very beautiful lava fountains and I could go very close and take
beautiful pictures. It was what we call here a tourist eruption."

"This one, last week, was different. It started underneath a glacier nearby
the first eruption. It melted down a lot of ice and we had huge floods. When
the lava hits the water you have a huge explosion and it explodes into thin
dust . You cannot go close to this eruption because it's on top of a
mountain and the explosions are huge. The hole is about 5,000 meters wide
and 2 kilometers long."

"Standing in front of it at night is magnificent because you can really see
the lightning that is at the center of the eruption. It's incredibly
exciting. The adrenaline flows and I was shouting 'wow look at that' over
and over. I've never seen something like this before."

"I just love volcanoes and the Northern Lights. I'm very happy to live here
in Iceland even though we're broke. We're poor, with beauty."


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