August 26, 2014 8:15 AM

Oh, by the way...a weather apocalypse of truly epic proportions may soon be upon us

The winter of 1783-1784. The Revolutionary War had just ended, and Benjamin Franklin was puzzling over the nation’s bizarre weather. Congress had been delayed getting to Annapolis to vote for the Treaty of Paris because the Chesapeake Bay just wouldn’t melt. The Mississippi River froze down to New Orleans, and ice was reported floating in the Gulf of Mexico. Reports from Europe were of a bizarrely hot summer with thick fog that was choking people to death in Scotland, massive hailstones, lightning, and crop failures. The sun was blood-red at noon. Mass starvation that would ultimately kill 1/6ths of Egypt’s population took hold due to a historic drought of the Nile. As many as six million people would die from the bizarre weather.

Franklin was one of the few scientists of his era to correctly speculate as to the cause of the truly bizarre weather: “whether it was the vast quantity of smoke, long continuing, to issue during the summer from Hekla in Iceland….. He got his Icelandic volcanoes mixed up- it was actually Laki (Eldgjá), but in the end he was correct enough, and a tiny island on the Arctic Circle was responsible for changing weather patterns and creating chaos and suffering the world over.

Who would have thought an island few Americans could find on a map could cause such massive disruption…and for so long?:

A rift 23 kilometers long opened up in places up to 100 meters wide with lava fountains at times reaching over a kilometers into the air - and it continued erupting for 8 months.

Hey, guess what, kids?? Turns out it just might happen again…and sooner than you might think! Not that the Mainstream Media has had much to say about it. Hey, it’s Iceland…and who cares about a frozen rock on the Arctic Circle, amiright??

A small eruption began Saturday at Iceland’s Bardarbunga volcano, which sits beneath a large ice cap. The explosion prompted the Icelandic Meteorological Office to issue its highest volcano alert. The office previously warned of severe flooding in case such a subglacial explosion were to occur.

A red alert is the highest warning on the met office’s five-color scale. It signifies an “eruption is imminent or in progress — significant emission of ash into atmosphere likely.” Icelandic authorities said it is still too early to tell how damaging the ash cloud and flooding will be….

“The thicker the ice, the more water there is, the more explosive it will be and the more ash-rich the eruption will be,” Icelandic Met Office vulcanologist Melissa Pfeffer told the Associated Press Saturday.

Bardarbunga is located in central Iceland beneath the 1,640-foot-thick Vatnajokull glacier, as noted by BBC News.

In 2010, the Eyjafjallajokull volcano erupted in Iceland, producing an ash cloud causing major air-travel problems for a week. More than 100,000 flights were canceled, as AP reported.

As happened with Eyjafjallajokull, those really sweating bullets over the possibilities are the folks who run airlines. 2010’s eruption spewed ash high into the atmosphere for six and a half days and cost the industry an estimated $1.7 billion.

One little volcano erupts and all Hell breaks loose….

Underlying the current unease is the reality that very little is known about Bardarbunga, making it difficult to predict much of anything. We could be looking at a major seismological/metereological event…or perhaps not so much. Even in an era when we know so much about the world around us, scientists in this instance really don’t have a clue as to what, when, or even if.

Feel free to go back to watching the Mainstream Media. I’m sure they’ll let us know when it’s time to panic and head for the hills.

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