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2023-05-23 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

Millions are told to get ready to evacuate as one of the world's most dangerous volcanoes in Mexico is set to erupt with smoke, ash and molten rock already spewing into the sky grounding planes forcing nearby schools to close

[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]

Officials set warning level for Popocatepetl volcano to one step below red alert

Some some 25 million people live within a 60-mile radius of the volcano's peak

Posted by Skidmark 2023-05-23 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11139 views ] Top

#1 Migrant flow from Central America appears to be tapering slightly.

Yes, always the optimist.

Posted by Besoeker 2023-05-23 07:19|| 2023-05-23 07:19|| Front Page Top

#2 Get ready to hear the inane utterances about climate change in 5...4...3....

Posted by DooDahMan 2023-05-23 07:20|| 2023-05-23 07:20|| Front Page Top

#3 Gaia™ is angry...

Posted by M. Murcek 2023-05-23 08:02|| 2023-05-23 08:02|| Front Page Top

#4 ^2 Except this time - if the explosion(s) spew enough particulate matter high enough - the global temperature will drop. An inconvenient truth.

Posted by Warthog 2023-05-23 09:11|| 2023-05-23 09:11|| Front Page Top

#5 Why has the sun been so RED across the US recently? It has made for gorgeous photos in swathes of the country this past week... but the reason is sinister

Posted by Skidmark 2023-05-23 09:30|| 2023-05-23 09:30|| Front Page Top

#6 Etna on Sicily is also going off.

Posted by ed in texas 2023-05-23 09:38|| 2023-05-23 09:38|| Front Page Top

#7 /\ 5 Huge forest fires in Alberta, prevailing north-west winds.

Posted by Canuckistan sniper 2023-05-23 11:46|| 2023-05-23 11:46|| Front Page Top

#8 Smoke from Alberta has been horrible the past few days here in Colorado.

Posted by DarthVader 2023-05-23 12:06|| 2023-05-23 12:06|| Front Page Top

#9 Someone ran out of virgins? Should check among the male tictok population.

Posted by Procopius2k 2023-05-23 12:25|| 2023-05-23 12:25|| Front Page Top

#10 Volcanoes have more effects on the weather than humans but try to explain that to a climate fanatic

Posted by Sock Puppet of Doom 2023-05-23 13:41|| 2023-05-23 13:41|| Front Page Top

#11 Next year will be a good one for morels.

Posted by no mo uro 2023-05-23 15:36|| 2023-05-23 15:36|| Front Page Top

#12 Of Geographical Fugue fame. Got to do it as a kid (minus the choreography, gottseidank... or maybe I've just repressed that part).

Posted by Slats Chuting6646 2023-05-23 20:55|| 2023-05-23 20:55|| Front Page Top

#13 @#4 - Not only that, a volcano can spew so much C02 that the tree huggers won't know what hit 'em.

And if we get a bad eruption that causes a global temperature drop, say good-bye to any decent crop harvests with the sun being blocked for at least a year.

Posted by DooDahMan 2023-05-23 22:00|| 2023-05-23 22:00|| Front Page Top

#14 ^ It has happened before. You could call it a Year Without a Summer

Posted by SteveS 2023-05-23 23:37|| 2023-05-23 23:37|| Front Page Top

#15 Of Geographical Fugue fame

My learning for today!

Posted by trailing wife 2023-05-23 23:56|| 2023-05-23 23:56|| Front Page Top

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