Amazing video of the new island being created as we blog…
This is amazingly cool. Of course, three jokes come to mind:
1) Get Fox News on the phone! The problem of Global Warming and rising sea levels is solved! The Earth is creating new land for us! Everybody buy SUVs!!
2) A new island in the Canary Islands?!?! QUICK! TEST A NUKE ON IT! (Or am I thinking of the Bikinis?)
3) Watch that video at 1:40 and tell me you weren't surprised no locals were yelling "GODZILLA!!"
But seriously, this is Mother Nature (or geology?) at work and it's totally cool. Read more about it in another CoalSpeaker post or you can read even more at Telegraph.co.uk (beware the autoplaying video they have!) While local cats are happy for the freshly cooked fish washing ashore, there have been evacuations due to tremors and to the toxic gases coming up with the fresh ground. I think they've also closed beaches and the nearest airport.
4) I wonder how long it'll be before there's like eight Starbucks on that island.
