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By: Shaun

Shaun — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 03:54:38 +0000

This one is actually my fault. The Sunday before last I emailed a friend about going to Iceland because I’ve always wanted to go, and then their volcano went off. My bad.

By: ChicagoMolly

ChicagoMolly — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 03:06:14 +0000

@Steinn:

I grabbed up a couple of online sound files to learn to pronounce Eyjafjallajökull, and the ‘ll’ sounds to my ear very much like the Welsh ‘ll’, which is unvoiced. So when you get to them you shut off the vocal chords and whisper the ‘ll’. Is that about right?

By: toby

toby — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 20:43:50 +0000

re: “the last I heard was that not that much was making it to the ground in high enough concentrations”

looks like quite a mouthful to me:
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/04/more_from_eyjafjallajokull.html#photo4

By: EDZ

EDZ — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 19:08:13 +0000

As for the name, I’m going with “Landsbanki’s Revenge.”

By: Katharine

Katharine — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 17:31:29 +0000

The Icelander speaks.

By: Steinn Sigurdsson

Steinn Sigurdsson — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 17:10:24 +0000

Eyja-Fjalla-Jökull – compound noun, mostly regular declension, spelled phonetically.

The ash cloud is neither big enough, nor high enough to have any significant climate effect. Yet.
The ash eruptions are likely to taper off for now, though they may resume, or enter a more strongly eruptive phase – but, rule of thumb is the big blasts usually don’t last as long, you just run out of stuff to shoot up into the stratosphere. Most of the time.

cf the 1821 eruption had about a week of significant explosive ash eruption, initially, then a long period of low level of activity, an short burst of more explosive activity, and then tapered off.

Then Katla erupted. Katla is Big.
Katla is Not Nice. She can also mess up your climate and really get ash up there.
Katla erupts about every 50 years.
Last eruption was in 1918… longer the interval, the worse, on average, is the next eruption.

There is a lot of detailed discussion over on scienceblogs – specifically at the Eruptions volcanism blog.

By: Benjamin Franz

Benjamin Franz — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 15:25:36 +0000

My favorite version I’ve seen so far was ‘Mount-Cut-And-Paste’.

By: Pieter Kok

Pieter Kok — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 15:10:42 +0000

Maybe EFJ will not affect the climate that much, but I’m sure some countries are going to achieve their CO₂ emission targets this year…

By: Doug Watts

Doug Watts — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 15:10:20 +0000

The Nipmucs of Massachusetts are up there with the Icelanders with Lake Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg.

By: Maurice Hendrix

Maurice Hendrix — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 14:28:15 +0000

Will “Kull” influence the climate?
That is very unlikly actually. You compare “Kull” to Mt. Pinatubo. But they are not comparable. Mt. Pinatubo threw up ashes much higher into the atmosphere, blocking out a significant amount of sunlight globally, which resulted in a slight drop in temperature. However, ashes from “Kull” have not yet come higher that a few kilometers. Thus, the ashes are more likely to fall back to the earth or rain out before long. So, no climatic influence should be expected from “Kull”.

By: Sili

Sili — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 14:20:38 +0000

Leave language to the linguists. Though I suspect that should he want to, Mark Liberman could solve the Dark Energy puzzle during a Breakfast Experiment™.

By: ChH

ChH — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 14:10:12 +0000

Rohan Mehra, right here!
I’ve had a glass of water sitting outside (in Alabama) all week. I’m sure it’s collected more than enough ash from EFJ to qualify as a homeopathic remedy for Eyjafjallajokullpneumonoultramicroscopicsilicavolcanoconiosis – but probably not pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicavolcanoconiosis in general.
Send me a money order for $1500 & I’ll bottle it up & send it to you…
For an extra $1000 I’ll even filter out the 1/2 inch layer of pollen!

By: Katharine

Katharine — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 11:19:29 +0000

It’s EY-ya-FIAT-la-joo(that umlaut over the o sounds like the umlaut over the o in German)-kut(l)(the final l is almost imperceptible).

By: BigEd

BigEd — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 11:11:09 +0000

Nitpick for you John: that’s a television channel called Channel 4. The phrase “British TV 4″ is meaningless. Excellent video though – the opposite of TV news. The final seconds have some good lightning.

By: Georg

Georg — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 10:38:52 +0000

Hello John,
You wrote:
“from breathing the silica dust.”
Where did You get this information from?
I mean “silica dust”! Another example of creating
news on demand.

On islands like Island or Hawaii, there is no silica at all,
only low melting basaltic lava forming a ash of basaltic glass.
Glas ash like that is not a problem to lungs, because it is
dissolved and resorbed rather fast.

Georg

By: Dedalus1953

Dedalus1953 — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 10:17:07 +0000

If I say “pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicavolcanoconiosis” three times very quickly, will it cure my hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliaphobia?

By: Rohan Mehra

Rohan Mehra — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 09:54:02 +0000

Quick does anyone know where I can buy large quantities of homeopathetic remedies for pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicavolcanoconiosis?

By: JM

JM — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 08:16:56 +0000

Night shots? Okay:
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap100419.html