Moon of Alabama Brecht quote
May 8, 2008
Nature is Great

Electric storm around the smoke column of the erupting volcano Chaitén in Chile

More picsReuters report

Comments

b
they are extraordinary photographs

Posted by: remembereringgiap | May 8 2008 17:07 utc | 1

Morepowerful than us bipeds, by a long way.

Posted by: Anonymous | May 8 2008 20:24 utc | 2

Thanks for these Bernhard.

Posted by: beq | May 8 2008 23:05 utc | 3

Morepowerful than us bipeds, by a long way.
Perhaps.
Unless, of course, you consider us carbon bipeds use of our military for weather modification .

Posted by: Anonymous | May 9 2008 0:14 utc | 4

#4 twas, moi…

Posted by: Uncle $cam | May 9 2008 2:08 utc | 5

wild. for whatever reason, it makes me think of velikovsky & celestial phenomena. is there video for this anywhere? nothing turning up in a youtube search that i can find.

Posted by: b real | May 9 2008 2:47 utc | 6

Just amazing.
Thanks.
–Gaianne

Posted by: Gaianne | May 9 2008 3:16 utc | 7

crap, they let the link die, on that paper I pointed to in my #4…luckily, the web archive still has it… but for how long? I’d suggest copying it for the future in your files. Anyway, sorry, without further problems, I hope:
Weather as a Force Multiplier: Owning the Weather in 2025

Posted by: Uncle $cam | May 9 2008 6:33 utc | 8

FWIW, new crop circles appeared in East Tennessee at new moon.
Comments on this local tv website are interesting. Some suspect bored local college students, some report odd lights flying nearby. Among those who study crop circles, electromagnetic activity is sometimes mentioned.
Report in local Monroe Co paper.

Posted by: small coke | May 9 2008 7:07 utc | 9

We had a electrical cell similar electrical cell here in Canberra recently but no volcano…
thanks

Posted by: waldo | May 9 2008 9:29 utc | 10

Top view provided by NASA on http://www.spaceref.com

Posted by: DharmaBum | May 9 2008 17:11 utc | 11

@DharmaBum – nice pictures – thanks.
I wonder how many megatons of CO2 have been released to the atmosphere by this event. How does that compare to the human CO2 production. Anyone saw any numbers on this?

Posted by: b | May 9 2008 18:35 utc | 12

@b
I don’t think vulcano’s produce much CO2, if any at all. Mostly dust and sulphuric acid, which are great heat reflectants (in the upper atmosphere). See also The year without summer

Posted by: DharmaBum | May 13 2008 14:17 utc | 13

@DharmaBum – you are right – it’s only 3% of total.

Posted by: b | May 13 2008 17:27 utc | 14