Like a volcano...

I could just explode! It really bugs me, that people continue inanely to blame someone or something for Mother Nature's wrath, as some have done following the recent
Iceland volcanic eruption.
Volcanoes have erupted from time immemorial such as in BCE

Thera (Santorini today with Crater) which Plato likened to the 'death of Altantis'.

Other deadly events: Krakatoa (today), which also influenced the climate as far away as Europe, bad or no harvests caused the death of many, months later.

Mt Pelee on Martiniquethe "tower of Pelee" after the eruption, and the most famous of all Mt Vesuvius which buried

Pompeii and Herculaneum

Pliny, the younger wrote two letters in which he described the event and the death of his Uncle Pliny, the Elder, who died while trying to save the populace by warships turned rescue boats.

This is an imagined painting of the Krakatoa eruption.

Thisis a photo of a real volcanic eruption,
and this is a painting by Diego Rivera.

Amazing, Mother Nature paints and artists copy her.

But to lay the blame on scientists (they should have predicted, they should have developed a way to prevent, to lessen the effects...) is inane, as inane as blaming G.W. Bush.

Yes, we have all the technologies to do so much! But when natural disasters strike, we humans are puny and helpless in the face of it, relying too much on technolgy. And so we strike out and blame - 'them'.

Mother Nature will continue to be angry..

volcanos will erupt (several are overdue), earthquakes will happen (California may be next), tornadoes will be spawned, hurricanes will devastate, tsunamis will rise, rains will flood, mud will slide and forests will burn, and sinkholes will continue to open, methane gas will explode, fires will devour and sickness will appear...and may have been prophesized by Michel Nostradamus

(1503-1566) or did he indeed :-)?

Book of his prophesies.

at U of TX Health Science Center in San Antonio, Texas