Also, if you don’t like the “Corporate Communism” here in the US, you should join the Tea Party and become a Libertarian. If Corporate Communism is bad, the real thing is so much worse for everyone. If those living in the slums supported free market reforms instead of a nasty dictator, their lives would be much improved. What exactly has Chavez done for the poor in Venezuela, besides causing food and power shortages?

Since we can’t possibly predict when the next major eruption will occur, how can we even remotely make a case for attempting to cool the earth on a global scale? Until the scientists can promise no major volcanic events on even a short-term scale, it would be ridiculous and dangerous in the extreme to even attempt to influence the global temperture any more than we already are.

Reaching back into memory here, Discover already had a similar article on this….I think it was the volcano in Iceland. Combined with an earlier eruption in the South Pacific a year earlier. It was a whole cycle of eruptions in a short period of time.

As I said, I only vaguely remember it. But the findings in the wood samples used, seem to validate that there was a big shift in Europe’s climate.

Kevin – you have been watching too much FOX NEWS. And do we not have a form of “corporate communism here in the US?” – many developed areas now have the same, corporate run and owned planned developments – strip centers with the same stores, surrounded by the same house, repeated over and over. People have this idea of choice and freedom, but when they go to shop and eat, they actually are very limited in their choice, all of which are given to them by a mega corporation that runs and owns all the businesses. I was just in some areas in Texas, where everyone works and shops and eats at the same places (Wal-Mart, Target, Apples bees, etc). There are no family owned business anymore. Many of them dont have health care (and wow, fight hard to NOT have it in the name of freedom – in the name of keep the money in the Wal-Mart family). We have now, a class of ill educated worker bees who cant see past a news report on FOX.

Also…one must look at socialism and why people support it. I prefer capitalism, but..It can depend on your state of being. If you live in Venezuela and are rich and live in a luxury high rise and have a weekend house on Aruba, you hate Chavez and hate socialism and taxes. If you live in a slum, with no prospects, no running water, no schools and no services, I bet you would be voting for Chavez who would tax the rich and bring you some of those services…So, before you or anyone pop off against anything or any system, you should first entertain the ideas of how people live and why they support certain systems. If you happened to find yourself in a slum in Rio, living in hot tin shack with no water, trying to survive what system would you choose, if one was offered to you that would bring you some services (but at the expense of taxing).