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The Icelandic Volcano

The link is to Birmingham's Resiliance Team's website which deals with various issues including the Icelandic Volcano.

The subsection is here with a nice picture (if a bit small) of the volcano itself.

Birmingham's civil contingency processes have been working quite well in recent years.

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Jerry said…
With the focus on the closure of the Air space due to the ash cloud entering the aircraft enigines, is one problem, but also a not well reported issue occures when planes fly throught ash cloudes is the aircraft is literally sand blasted.

the infamous BA flight 9 lost all four engines but as well the pilots had to fly blind as the aircrafts windscreen and windows became "frosted".

Theres another positive thing that will happen with the grounding of aircraft is the CO2 emissions will have significantly fallen, yeah its only for 24 hours or so, thats still a significant ammout thats not been pumped out into the atmosphere.
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