Air New Zealand is advising passengers booked for London on its two flights leaving Auckland tonight, that there is a high probability they will not get further than Hong Kong or Los Angeles and is strongly recommending that they do not travel tonight.

Ash from the volcano beneath the Eyjafjallajokull glacier in the centre of the Iceland, has turned the skies in northern Europe into a no-flying zone and although the situation will be reviewed in the next 12 hours, it is not looking promising. Wind direction is the crucial element and for the next three or four days it is forecast to remain much the same. Countries as far south as Spain are now concerned about the impact on their air-space.

While the Air New Zealand flights bound for Europe are leaving as usual, the airline is worried that the passengers heading for Britain will be stranded at the stopovers of either Hong Kong or Los Angeles.

Air New Zealand's home-coming flights from London remain grounded at Heathrow Airport. One Air New Zealand flight to the UK had to be diverted to Frankfurt overnight and passengers are still stranded in the German city. Passengers on the two other flights from Auckland remain in hotels in their transit stops of Hong Kong and Los Angeles.

There is no indication of when flights will resume normal schedules.

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> Frankfurt overnight and passengers are still
> stranded in the German city. Passengers on the two
> other flights from Auckland remain in hotels in
> their transit stops of Hong Kong and Los Angeles.
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> There is no indication of when flights will resume
> normal schedules.
Air New Zealand usually doesn't fly into Franfurt!



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Volcano monitoring? Why would we pay for volcano monitoring? What crazy shit is that???



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Ha ha ha! I forgot about that!

BTW, the magnetic levitation railroad from LA to LV, unless it hubbed out of Chicago, was a lie.






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NZ001 Landing at LAX (from the cabin)



Air New Zealand Landing in LAX

WashingTone-Locian Wrote:
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> Volcano monitoring? Why would we pay for volcano
> monitoring? What crazy shit is that???
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Oh, I forgot, monitoring this volcano would have prevented it from erupting, and we could have done so much about it, right?

The USGS already knows when a volcano is going to erupt, and therefore the funding of such programs does not need to be of a high priority.

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"And if any women or children get their legs torn off, or faces caved in, well, it's tough shit for them." -2LT. Bert Stiles, 505th, 339th (On Berlin Bombardier Mission, 1944).

Btw, it'll be funny if this volcano keeps erupting for the next 6-12 Months. The amount of particulate that it places into the Upper Atmosphere in such a scenario, will end up not only erasing any of the alleged "warming" (0.5 Degrees Centigrade) from the past Century, but it could in fact send us an antire 1.0 Deg. C. below such.

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"And if any women or children get their legs torn off, or faces caved in, well, it's tough shit for them." -2LT. Bert Stiles, 505th, 339th (On Berlin Bombardier Mission, 1944).

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> Oh, I forgot, monitoring this volcano would have
> prevented it from erupting, and we could have done
> so much about it, right?
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> The USGS already knows when a volcano is going to
> erupt, and therefore the funding of such programs
> does not need to be of a high priority.


No. Volcano monitoring allows us to know when a volcano is going to erupt and impact air traffic. USGS is a government agency. Not sure what your point is.

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> > WashingTone-Locian Wrote:
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> >
> > Oh, I forgot, monitoring this volcano would
> have
> > prevented it from erupting, and we could have
> done
> > so much about it, right?
> >
> > The USGS already knows when a volcano is going
> to
> > erupt, and therefore the funding of such
> programs
> > does not need to be of a high priority.
>
>
> No. Volcano monitoring allows us to know when a
> volcano is going to erupt and impact air traffic.
> USGS is a government agency. Not sure what your
> point is.

I think there is a ground safety factor as well. They also may cull lots of scientific data. Since most Republicans on the Hill don't believe in evolution, science data is not a priority; it is all God's will.

$140Million for volcano monitoring? What does USGS do again? I am pretty sure they already do quite a bit of this in the US.

Even in this article - the guy got $300K from the stimulus funds - BUT - he noted he would have just proposed a more modest project to the National Science Foundation to get funding.

http://www.wkowtv.com/Global/story.asp?S=12165469

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Thurber landed $300,000 to monitor two Alaskan volcanoes.

In the nationally-broadcast Republican response to President Obama's speech to Congress last year, Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal singled out "volcano monitoring" as an example of questionable spending in the $800 billion stimulus bill.

"People like Bobby Jindal are not happy about it," Thurber told WKOW27 News. "(But) Volcano hazards are something that does have an impact on our infrastructure."

Thurber said past eruptions from one of the two volcanoes he's studying have closed Anchorage's airport and changed air traffic patterns.

Thurber's previous research funding for volcano monitoring came from the National Science Foundation. Thurber conceded if stimulus funds had been denied, he would have scaled back his research goals and proposed a more modest project to NSF.
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You all are a bunch of TPM turds. The fact that you don't actually look into an issue and just spout BS based on the soundbite presented to you by the propagandists shows just how shallow you are.

HuffPo made an issue of this last year, because evidently the $140M went to the Interior Department where they used some of it for "flood monitoring technology" in Louisiana. Good for them. The stimulus bill did a lot for State governments in allowing them to get over their budget shortfalls and continue to employ state employees. But for all intents and purposes a large chunk of it ended up as a slush fund (which they still haven't spent). I am sure a large amount of the remaining discretionary amounts will be spent in the run-up to the election.

Honestly, I have to say it is pretty funny all these folks want to live near active volcanoes. Good for them - again, why is it important that the entire country pays additional funds for their decision to live in an area with a known deadly hazard? It seems like their State and others around them should be party to a fund for this stuff. And please, there is already funding in the Federal budget for USGS - these volcanoes would be looked at and monitored anyway.

FY 2009 Budget for USGS
http://www.usgs.gov/budget/2009/docs/2009_budget_tables.pdf

FY 2011 Budget - note in the section under Volcanoes they got more funding in 2009 then proposed, and in 2010 more. But of course, people only heard the Jindal soundbite being criticized so they thought they were losing something that already existed.
http://www.usgs.gov/budget/2011/docs/overview.pdf

If you can’t model the past, where you know the answer pretty well, how can you model the future? - William Happer Cyrus Fogg Brackett Professor of Physics Princeton University



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RV,

What's a TPM?

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> What's a TPM?


Did you watch the video linked or just a troll turd?

If you can’t model the past, where you know the answer pretty well, how can you model the future? - William Happer Cyrus Fogg Brackett Professor of Physics Princeton University

Registered Voter Wrote:
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> > What's a TPM?
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> Did you watch the video linked or just a troll
> turd?

RejectedTurdLover,

You didn't link any videos and neither the Jidhal video nor the flight ones made any mention of TPM. A simple answer would have sufficed, asshole!


Eat dick, faggot!