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Show Log for Monday, April 19, 2010

Starting the show tonight we had Ted Bell proposing a new “7 day work week.” “We gotta know what we got in this country,” said Ted. He believes the American people are soft. They think the weekend off is their inalienable right….like health-care. In the second hour Phil talked about the volcano in Iceland and the climate-change possibilities. He took a call from Herb Sewell briefly with Herb saying he’d never kidnap an autistic child. “I don’t kidnap droolers.” Phil threw him off. In the final hour, Vernon Dozier sounds increasingly anxious as he tells Phil the volcano in Iceland is a threat to life on the planet. His students told their parents to be prepared but they came back to class telling Vernon their parents didn’t care. Vernon then took the class out to Azuza Canyon to see some caves used once by Chinese railroad workers. He told the kids that the volcano could force them into cave-dwelling where they’d become like Morlochs in the book “The Time Machine”, eating the Eloi.

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Mr Wizard’s Time Machine: Local and Global Effects of the August 26,1883 Krakatoa Eruption

Climate Change It has been estimated that at least 21 cubic Km (appr. 11 cubic mile) was ejected from the eruption of Krakatoa and that at least 1 cubic mile of the finer material was blown to a height of about 17 miles (27 Km). The volcanic dust blown into the upper atmosphere was carried several times around the earth by air currents. This volcanic dust veil not only created the spectacular atmospheric effects described previously but acted also as a solar radiation filter, reducing the amount of sunlight reaching the surface of the earth. In the year following the eruption, global temperatures were lowered by as much as 1.2 degree Centigrade on the average. Weather patterns continued to be chaotic for years and there were major climatological changes which affected the entire globe. Temperatures did not return to normal until five years later, in 1888.