{"id":433,"date":"2010-05-13T11:07:32","date_gmt":"2010-05-13T01:07:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/?p=433"},"modified":"2011-08-30T22:04:01","modified_gmt":"2011-08-30T12:04:01","slug":"katla-the-other-icelandic-volcano-to-worry-about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/2010\/05\/katla-the-other-icelandic-volcano-to-worry-about-433.html","title":{"rendered":"Katla: The Other Icelandic Volcano To Worry About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m quoting an article from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aircargoworld.com\/Archive\/2010\/The-Week\/May-2010\/Odds-shorten-on-Katia-eruption\">Air Cargo World<\/a>. Obviously their major concern is how Katla could affect flights in Europe. My concern is that a Katla eruption could cause far greater problems. Worst-case scenario is a global plunge in temperature = crop failures = starvation, civil strife and economic meltdown. If you haven&#8217;t already being storing food for a possible 2012 event, this is a great excuse to start today. Buy food that you will eat anyway (for example a some 20kg sacks of rice), but get it in bulk now. <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">And never tell anyone<\/span>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Following the recent eruption of the nearby Gu\u00f0nasteinn volcano beneath the Eyjafjallaj\u00f6kull glacier, <strong>Icelandic president \u00d3lafur Gr\u00edmssono<\/strong> commented: &#8220;The time for Katla to erupt is coming close. It is high time for European governments and airline authorities all over the world to start planning for the eventual Katla eruption.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the past 1,000 years, all three known eruptions of Eyjafjallaj\u00f6kull have triggered a subsequent eruption of Katla.<\/p>\n<p>Paddy Power [bookmakers] said: \u201cFor all our sakes I hope these punters have got it wrong. Katla is the Big Daddy of Iceland\u2019s active volcanoes and should it blow it would more than likely spell disaster for the airline industry along with misery for millions of air travelers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The betting spread on when Katla will next erupt are 11:8 this year falling to 2:1 in 2011, 4:1 in 2012 and 6:1 in 2013. The bookmaker is also taking bets on when UK airspace will next close. May 14 or later is the even-money favorite.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m quoting an article from Air Cargo World. Obviously their major concern is how Katla could affect flights in Europe. My concern is that a Katla eruption could cause far greater problems. Worst-case scenario is a global plunge in temperature = crop failures = starvation, civil strife and economic meltdown. If you haven&#8217;t already being storing food for a possible 2012 event, this is a great excuse to start today. Buy food that you will eat anyway (for example a some 20kg sacks of rice), but get it in bulk now. And never tell anyone.<br \/>\nFollowing the recent eruption of the nearby Gu\u00f0nasteinn volcano beneath the Eyjafjallaj\u00f6kull glacier, Icelandic president \u00d3lafur Gr\u00edmssono commented: &#8220;The time for Katla to erupt is coming close. It is high time for European governments and airline authorities all over the world to start planning for the eventual Katla eruption.\u201d<br \/>\nIn the past 1,000 years, all three known &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[246],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-volcanoes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=433"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1994,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433\/revisions\/1994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. The path to wp-cache-phase1.php in wp-content/advanced-cache.php must be fixed! -->