A salutary reminder of the power of nature
This is being written at 15:00 UTC on Tuesday, 20th April. It’s still anyone’s guess as to when the airspace that commercial aircraft fly in will be free from volcanic fallout.
Based in Arizona but planning to fly to the UK in about three weeks, it’s also very frustrating finding really good, accurate information to help one think through plans and back-up plans.
But here’s a web site for UK glider (sailplane) pilots that goes a very long way to providing really solid information. Check it out. (And, once again, thanks to Yves Smith of Naked Capitalism for finding the site.)
Well done GlideMet.
By Paul Handover (ex British Gliding Association pilot/instructor.)
Learning from Dogs 
And what about the winds for my balloon, around June, Washington D.C to Karlskrona Sweden, where my mother lives?
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Power of nature, and weakness of human foresight… Not integrating the power of nature is not integrous on our civilization’s part.
And grievous lack of foresight is nothing new. After all, it’s why Sumer went down, Crete, or the Maya. Increasing lack of power on nature is also why Rome went down: the “world has become old”, the Romans used to say…
Iceland devastating Europe is nothing new… nor are methane eruptions, complete with tsunamis, either…
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