"Global Gridlock" is how Australian ABC News describes the impact on world air travel of the volcanic ash plume across northern and central Europe.
Forecasters are now suggesting that the climatic conditions which have contributed to the problem could continue into next week.
The volcanic ash plume is an environmental event of global significance, a so-called "Act of God" which at best is an inconvenience for users of air transport, and at worst a disaster.
However, unlike recent earthquakes, there do not seem to have been any direct fatalities as yet from the eruptions in Iceland.
What this episode should do is make people - and policy makers in particular - think more laterally about the potential for and impact of "Nature's Great Events".
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