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Volcanic activity increasing worldwide

Lists 20 deadliest volcanoes in past 500 years

(Scroll to end to see why this concerns me)

We are seeing an increase in volcanic activity worldwide, says climatologist Cliff
arris.

On Aug. 29, thousands of people were evacuated after a volcano on the Indonesian
land of Sumatra erupted for the first time in 400 years. Earlier this month, Mount
nabung spewed hot ash more than a mile into the air along with volcanic earthquakes.
wo people died and more than 30,000 were evacuated.

n Iceland, the eruption of Eyjafjallajokull, which caused widespread flight

ancellations in Europe because of the giant ash cloud, has produced a lot of speculation
oncerning the neighboring volcano Katla. In the past, when Eyjafjallajokull has
upted, Katla has often followed within a short period of time.

On Aug. 25, Italy's Etna volcano and Columbia's Galeros volcano, both erupted. The
xplosions were not huge, but new and perhaps bigger eruptions are expected at
nytime.

f volcanic activity continues to increase, and there is an eruption big enough to send
illions of tons of ash and dust into the upper layers of the atmosphere, then the Earth's
mperature would likely drop at least a degree or two from present levels. This
appened in June of 1991 when Mount Pinatubo exploded in the Philippines. For the
llowing year, the Earth's temperature dropped about 1-2 degrees before recovering
veral years later.

Here are the 20 most deadly volcanic eruptions in the past 500 years worldwide and
eir approximately death tolls:

elut, Indonesia, 1586: 10,000

esuvius, Italy, 1631: 4,000

shima, Japan, 1741: 1,481

apadanyan, Indonesia, 1772: 2,960

akagigar, Iceland, 1783: 9,340

 nze, Japan, 1792: 15,000

ambora, Indonesia, 1815: 92,000

alunggung, Indonesia, 1822: 4,000

evado del Ruiz, Columbia, 1845: 36,417

rakatau, Indonesia, 1883: 36,417

itter, Paupa New Guinea, 1888: 3,000

Mount Pelee, Martinique, 1902: 29,000

elut, Indonesia, 1919: 5,110

amington, Papua New Guinea, 1951: 2,942

ibok-Hibok, Philippines, 1951: 500

gung, Indonesia, 1963: 1,148

limatologist Cliff Harris writes a weekly column for The Coeur d'Alene Press.

ee entire article:
tp://www.cdapress.com/columns/cliff_harris/article_a359d6f3-fc9c-53ed-9a50-
dda114380bd.html

Why do I keep mentioning volcanoes?

Because ice ages correlate with huge increases in volcanic activity.

Here's a quote from Not by Fire but by Ice:

"Polarity reversals, equinoctial precession, and ice ages, all march to

the same drummer. As do extinctions, new species appearance,
volcanism, and rising land. Toss in the specter of massive floods, 30-
story tsunami (tsunami is both singular and plural), and radioactivity
falling on your head, and you've got the picture."
 Just look at the last three magnetic reversals (kya stands for thousands of years
ago):

34 kya - Lake Mungo magnetic reversal. Intensive volcanism.

23 kya - Mono Lake magnetic reversal. Major volcanism. The Mono

Lake event actually straddles a layer of ash (Liddicoat).

11.5 kya - Gothenburg magnetic reversal. Worldwide volcanism

(Lamb). Mexican volcanism Afirmly@ dated at 11,580 " 70 years
(Street-Perrott). Germany=s West Eiffel fields erupt (Lamb). Mount
St. Helens ash interlayered with Lake Missoula flood deposits,
indicating simultaneous events (Chernicoff). Glacier Peak, Washing-
ton, erupts (Dawson). Alaskan volcanism of tremendous proportions.
In Alaska and Siberia, ash lies interspersed through the piles of
mammoth bones themselves. (Hibben). Mt. Katla, Iceland, erupts
(Dawson).

I fear that we are seeing a similar increase in volcanic activity right now.

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