How Sez Sees It

In a continuing story of greed vs nature this time it is the bosses of Ryanair and British Airways who would like to control the way of the world. A year ago the Eyjafjallajokull volcano in Iceland caused travel chaos after erupting for a couple of months and I myself was part of that when my planned trip to Dublin was cancelled due to no flights so I had a lovely holiday in Weymouth instead.  This year we see a repeat with the Grimsvotn volcano, but this time Willy Walsh and Michael O'Leary want to fly you through the ash. Apparently one of the BA planes has flown through the ash cloud and there was no 'visible damage'.  That isn't really the point.  The point is that the ash is very abrasive and will get into every space.  At, say, 36,000 feet the ash will stick to the engine turbines and under those temperatures form into a type of glass, clogging the turbines.  This can cause engine failure.  If you are lucky then after dropping around 15,000 f...

Just weeks after we found out that the ashcloud from the unpronounceable Icelandic volcano of last year could have caused plane crashes if the planes were not grounded we find another volcano threatening to put our planes out of action and annoy holiday makers. I would like to address a point that a couple of people have said to me.  This is the seismic movement of the tectonic plates causing liquid magma to rise to the surface and send sulphurous ash into the atmosphere.  This has been going on since the planet was formed roughly 4 Billion years ago.  This is not a sign of the apocolypse. Thank you.