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Volcano's Lightning Captured in Photo

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(April 8) - For the first time, scientists have been able to "see" and trace lightning inside a plume of ash spewing from an actively erupting volcano.
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06:23 PMApr 13 2009

DadaShark 03:58 PMApr 13 2009 DadaShark 15:55 PMApr 13 2009 Type your own comment NetPotato 11:10 PMApr 10 2009 SEFarwell 07:14 PMApr 09 2009 Global warming in action!! Where are the Gore-bots when you need them? One volcano eruption = DECADES of man's input to the atmosphere but we never talk about that, do we! ################### Absolute pure drivel!!!! No volcano eruption from beginning to end comes close to putting out what world puts out in only one hour here<<<<>>>>>OOPS. net potatoe needs to look up some facts. Ice Age was believed to have been caused by a single vacanic eruption. Some extreme climate changes in history are proven to be caused by valcanic eruptions.@@@@ it's volcanic..not valcanic...net's not stupid and does research things.....it's all in what one wants to believe as far as the volcano = Iceage theories go

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DadaShark

03:58 PMApr 13 2009

DadaShark 15:55 PMApr 13 2009 Type your own comment NetPotato 11:10 PMApr 10 2009 SEFarwell 07:14 PMApr 09 2009 Global warming in action!! Where are the Gore-bots when you need them? One volcano eruption = DECADES of man's input to the atmosphere but we never talk about that, do we! ################### Absolute pure drivel!!!! No volcano eruption from beginning to end comes close to putting out what world puts out in only one hour here<<<<>>>>>OOPS. net potatoe needs to look up some facts. Ice Age was believed to have been caused by a single vacanic eruption. Some extreme climate changes in history are proven to be caused by valcanic eruptions.

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DadaShark

03:55 PMApr 13 2009

Type your own comment NetPotato 11:10 PMApr 10 2009 SEFarwell 07:14 PMApr 09 2009 Global warming in action!! Where are the Gore-bots when you need them? One volcano eruption = DECADES of man's input to the atmosphere but we never talk about that, do we! ################### Absolute pure drivel!!!! No volcano eruption from beginning to end comes close to putting out what world puts out in only one hourhere<<<<>>>>>OOPS. net potatoe needs to look up some facts.

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DadaShark

03:52 PMApr 13 2009

net potatoe is right about the lightning, but not right about government involvment. This event will mean that the Federal government will now prevent Alaskan citizens from heating their home until they pay back the carbon tax accrued by this volcano. The government is not concerned about this, however, since they believe that global warming will make it unneccsary to heat homes in Alaska.

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03:46 PMApr 13 2009

NetPotato 02:29 AMApr 10 2009 If one may interrupt the incessant (and tiring) political bashing here, it's important to note that there has always been lightning occurring with volcanic eruptions. The article is merely pointing out that technology now permits the electronic recording of the location of lightning normally obscured by ash and vapor. The system is nothing more than what one sees on weather channels that record the location and frequency of lightning. It does NOT take pictures, as the AOL picture suggests. Further, judging by what has been posted earlier, some will undoubtedly be bitterly disappointed that Obama, Bush, and Palin are in no way associated with volcanoes.<<<>>>Actually not true. As it turns out this has caused Alaskan citizens to have extreme carbon deficit. The bad news is that the Federal government will not allow them to heat their homes for another five years unless they pay a carbon tax to make up for the volcano. The good ne...

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02:45 PMApr 11 2009

Jmw1431 04:25 PMApr 09 2009 So the neo cons are trash talking on a board whose story was about a volcano? Love the been on welfare all their lives comment. ROTHLMAO. Funny those on the political right think that almost all democrats are on welfare. When you ask them how many Americans receive public assistance, they haven't a clue. Any neo cons care to take a guess?@@@hhmmmm.. but it's ok for you to post your political crap on this science board? why don't you chill as well..If anyone doen't have something to add to a science board..then take the political BS to a political board...there's plenty of political boards

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02:29 AMApr 10 2009

If one may interrupt the incessant (and tiring) political bashing here, it's important to note that there has always been lightning occurring with volcanic eruptions. The article is merely pointing out that technology now permits the electronic recording of the location of lightning normally obscured by ash and vapor. The system is nothing more than what one sees on weather channels that record the location and frequency of lightning. It does NOT take pictures, as the AOL picture suggests. Further, judging by what has been posted earlier, some will undoubtedly be bitterly disappointed that Obama, Bush, and Palin are in no way associated with volcanoes.

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NetPotato

12:08 AMApr 10 2009

"Present-day carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from subaerial and submarine volcanoes are uncertain at the present time. Gerlach (1991) estimated a total global release of 3-4 x 10E12 mol/yr from volcanoes. This is a conservative estimate. Man-made (anthropogenic) CO2 emissions overwhelm this estimate by at least 150 times." "...volcanism produces about 3% of the total CO2 with the other 97% coming from anthropogenic sources."

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NetPotato

11:14 PMApr 10 2009

When Redoubt calms, TrekkinBob will return from the mount with stone tablets to replace the other two that have been misplaced.

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11:10 PMApr 10 2009

SEFarwell 07:14 PMApr 09 2009 Global warming in action!! Where are the Gore-bots when you need them? One volcano eruption = DECADES of man's input to the atmosphere but we never talk about that, do we! ################### Absolute pure drivel!!!! No volcano eruption from beginning to end comes close to putting out what world puts out in only one hour.

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For the first time, scientists have been able to see and trace lightning inside a plume of ash spewing from an actively erupting volcano.