{"id":28552,"date":"2017-12-04T12:44:18","date_gmt":"2017-12-04T17:44:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=28552"},"modified":"2017-12-04T12:44:18","modified_gmt":"2017-12-04T17:44:18","slug":"antarctic-volcano-warning-ash-could-encircle-the-globe-causing-worldwide-health-problems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=28552","title":{"rendered":"Antarctic Volcano Warning: Ash Could \u2018Encircle The Globe\u2019 Causing Worldwide Health Problems"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shtfplan.com\/headline-news\/antarctic-volcano-warning-ash-could-encircle-the-globe-causing-worldwide-health-problems_12042017\">Antarctic Volcano Warning: Ash Could \u2018Encircle The Globe\u2019 Causing Worldwide Health Problems<\/a><\/h3>\n<div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-51985\" src=\"http:\/\/shtfplan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Volcano-eruption-travel-Deception-Island-887689-e1512399052725.jpg\" alt=\"volcano-eruption-travel-deception-island-887689\" width=\"560\" height=\"332\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Scientists are sounding the alarm about a volcano eruption in Antartica that could cause global health problems. The ash from this eruption could encircle the globe, affecting millions of people.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/news\/science\/887689\/Volcano-eruption-Deception-Island-Antarctic-air-traffic-planes-economy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Deception Island, off the coast of the Antarctic Peninsula,<\/a> is a hotbed of volcanic activity with at least 50 craters spread across the region. A recent study done in the area by scientists has found evidence that an eruption on the island could disrupt air traffic on continents in the Southern Hemisphere, including South America and Africa. It could also cause some major health concerns for the whole globe.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/news\/2017\/12\/antarctic-eruption-could-significantly-disrupt-international-air-traffic\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">findings of the research show that Antarctica\u2019s<\/a> volcanoes can have an effect across the world, says Charles Connor, a geoscientist at the University of South Florida in Tampa not involved in the research. \u201cWe have to reassess the potential hazards for global transportation networks posed by even these remote volcanoes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<strong>Ash emitted during explosive volcanic eruptions may disperse over vast areas of the globe posing a threat to human health and infrastructures and causing significant disruption to air traffic<\/strong>,\u201d scientists warned in their report.\u00a0 \u201cVolcanic ash emitted from Antarctic volcanoes could potentially encircle the globe, leading to significant consequences for global aviation safety.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The study revealed\u00a0the \u201csignificant consequences to global aviation\u201d after reviewing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/news\/2017\/12\/antarctic-eruption-could-significantly-disrupt-international-air-traffic\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">computer models of ash flows from different types of eruption during different seasons.<\/a>\u00a0The research is the first of its kind investigating the horrifying impact of ash from an Antarctic volcano on the rest of the word. \u201cNo attention has been paid to the potential socio-economic and environmental consequences of an ash-forming eruption occurring at high southern latitudes,\u201d the study declared.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Antarctic Volcano Warning: Ash Could \u2018Encircle The Globe\u2019 Causing Worldwide Health Problems Scientists are sounding the alarm about a volcano eruption in Antartica that could cause global health problems. The ash from this eruption could encircle the globe, affecting millions of people. Deception Island, off the coast of the Antarctic Peninsula, is a hotbed of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[2756,6489,6490,17341,13562],"class_list":["post-28552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-antarctica","tag-mac-slavo","tag-shtfplan-com","tag-volcanic-ash","tag-volcano"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28552"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28553,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28552\/revisions\/28553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}