Iceland is Hot
Yes, Iceland is a hot topic for financial nay-saysers these days. Iceland has been given the dubious title of possibly being thw first <a href="http://www.transformhouston.com/archive/national-bankruptcy.php">NATIONAL BANKRUPTCY</a>: the first nation in this latest financial upheaval ro potentially go belly up. But, it's yet another upheaval that I want to mention and that's the <strong>HOT news</strong> about the environment around Iceland.
Who knows what lies beneath the ocean depths?
We've just discovered a previously missing WWII submarine. We found the Titantic! If we keep looking we might find Atlantis and Lemuria. But, what we do know that relates to Iceland, is that five days after my birthday, in 1963 (I had just turned 20 and on my way to fame- so I hoped) a fishing crew was braving what can sometimes be 200 mile an hour gale-force winds and 85 foot waves to do some crazy fishing in the Inclandic waters.
Lo and behold to their amazement a plume of black smoke arose from the ocean floor like so si-fi flick. Over the next four years, that black smoke would produce on of the worlds newest islands and be named SURTSEY, after a mythological Icelandic giant.
The explosive eruptions caused by the easy access of water to the erupting vents threw rocks up to a 0.6 mi away from the island, and sent ash clouds as high as 6 miles up into the atmosphere. The loose pile of unconsolidated tephra would quickly have been washed away had the supply of fresh magma dwindled, and large clouds of dust were often seen blowing away from the island during this stage of the eruption.
Some 40+ years later there's not much on this island of lava rock and I must ask the question, what about the Yellowstone Supervolcano? The size and magnitude of such an explosion could conceivably kill 90% of the American population. When we don't know, but the hot beds that come out of the ocean and spring forth from larger Hawaiian Islands are very tempermental and subject to changes from out there. Can you say sun spots, solar radiation bursts and the like.
We live in a very delicate ecosystem that needs better stewardship than we're providing. It would be good for us to get back to nature and the study of our universe- while we can! Did I mention that 2012 is just four years away?
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As a spiritual-futurist, I interpret current events in light of possible macro-universal forces at play leading up to 2012, but not limited to it.
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