After Grimsvötn: Something's Gonna Change Your World (An Inhuman Enormity of Scale)

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A dead lamb lies covered in ash from Grimsvötn volcanic eruption, near Kirkjubaearklaustur, 260 km (162 miles) from ReykjavÌk, Iceland, 24 May 2011: photo by Brynjar Gauti/Associated Press

Nothing's gonna change my world

Nothing's gonna change my world

Nothing's gonna change my world

Nothing's gonna change my world

John Lennon, Across the Universe, 1968

A member of a rescue team checks on a farmer near Kirkjubaearklaustur, approximately 260 km from Reykjavik, Iceland, 23 May 2011: photo by Brynjar Gauti/Associated Press

Ash covers the surface of the ground outside a gas station in Kirkjubaejarklaustur, 22 May 2011, after Grimsvötn, Iceland's most active volcano, erupted, hurling a plume of ash and smoke far into the sky: photo by Ingolfur Juliusson/Reuters

Passengers sleep on the floor in the main terminal at Edinburgh Airport, 24 May 2011 after ash from the Grimsvötn volcano eruption in Iceland forced the cancellation of dozens of flights to and from Scotland: photo by David Moir/Reuters

A passenger waits in the main terminal at Edinburgh Airport, 24 May 2011 after ash from the Grimsvötn volcano eruption in Iceland forced the cancellation of dozens of flights to and from Scotland: photo by David Moir/Reuters

A woman is stranded with her luggage in the main terminal at Edinburgh Airport after flights were canceled due to ash plume from Grimsvötn volcano eruption, Edinburgh, Scotland, 24 May 2011: photo by David Moir/Reuters