07-03-2014, 04:02 AM
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Originally posted by pahoated
Funny how the USGS went to such an extreme to call K2 dead, rather than stalled like they used to describe every other flow. If the June 27 event continues, that will become K3. They are reporting 900 tonnes of SO2 (dead giveaway the person doing the report is a Brit) now, when it was about 200 tonnes per day.
Think about that. 900 tons of SO2 PER DAY. And here are these Punatics claiming to be deathly ill from 10 parts per billion of SO2.
Why is it so many people in Puna have no sense of proportion or scale? There has to be a medical term for that beyond brain dead.
"This island Hawaii on this island Earth"
A couple of points of information here:
1) metric tonnes (1000 kg) simply complies with scientific units, nothing Brit about it.
2) Pu'u O'o and Halema'uma'u are producing sulfur dioxide; the whining in lower Puna is about hydrogen sulfide; at the typical levels of exposure, sulfur dioxide is the more damaging compound but hydrogen sulfide stinks - the real source of the whining.