Icelandic Volcano - Blessing In Disguise?

Submitted by: Yumna.Martin

19.04.10

As you read this, you may know someone or be that someone who has been stuck somewhere overseas when you’d rather be at home, or vice versa, you're one of the many stranded here when you'd rather be at your scheduled, paid for, long-awaited holiday destination...

Iceland’s volcano, Eyjafjallajökull (pronounced: “AY-uh-fyat-luh-YOE-kuutl-uh”) erupted on the April 15 sending plumes of smoke into the atmosphere. Of course, having tons of ash hanging around in the air is a huge aircraft safety threat, keeping in mind that the last time an aircraft was affected by smoke plumes from a volcano was in 1982 - when a British Airways 747 flight from London to Auckland encountered a plume from Mount Galunggung in Java, Indonesia. All four engines failed but the plane glided far enough out of the plumes for three of them to restart and work sufficiently - allowing an emergency landing at Jakarta, with 263 passengers unhurt…

Now I’d rather not be on an aircraft whose engines might stop working. So although the airspace ban has caused many people to want to pull their hair out, it’s made Mother Nature smile…

The very clever people at Information Is Beautiful put together the below graphic showing that in one day the European aviation industry emits 344,109 tons of CO2, compared to the 15,000 tons emitted by the volcano. Due to the airspace ban with 60% cancelled flights across Europe, in one day 206,465 CO2 is saved (or not emitted, as it would have been).
 

Words: Yumna Martin
Photo: Flickr user Thorhallur Maack
 

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One sad thing is, though,

One sad thing is, though, that a few days multiplied by 206,465 (which feels like a nice big number) fades in comparison to that number multiplied by all the days in a year, or all the days in the 21st century. A small step for human kind? Yes, but a step taken on the same spot where you were standing.

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Yumna, you make a very valid point in your piece. I think it is a blessing in disguise in a way, because at least a significant amount of CO2 emissions have not been pumped in the air for a few days and complain as they may, it has forced travellers to perhaps think about different ways of travelling other than by aeroplane. But on the other hand as you say, the Kenyan farmers/horticultural industry seems to be the people who are really suffering as most of our flowers and vegetables come from this part of the world.

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