Indonesia’s Mount Lewotobi Laki-laki Erupts, Releasing Massive Ash Plume
Region is at highest alert status. Meanwhile, Ash clouds at 7 miles can block and scatter sunlight, causing temporary cooling at the Earth’s surface.
Mount Lewotobi Laki Laki, located in Indonesia’s East Nusa Tenggara province on Flores Island, erupted dramatically, sending a massive ash plume up to almost 7 miles (11 kilometers) into the sky.
Images shared by the agency on Tuesday showed an orange ash cloud in the shape of a mushroom engulfing a nearby village.
It is not immediately clear if there have been flight disruptions. When Lewotobi Laki-laki erupted in March, airlines were forced to cancel and delay flights into Bali, including Australia’s Jetstar and Qantas Airways (QAN.AX).
Indonesia’s search and rescue agency, as well as its disaster mitigation agency, which oversees evacuation, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
BREAKING: Mount Lewotobi Laki-laki in Indonesia has erupted 🌋
“There was an eruption of Mount Lewotobi Laki-laki on Tuesday, June 17, 2025, at 17:35 WITA with an observed ash column height of ± 10,000 m above the peak (± 11,584 m above sea level),” said the Volcano Observation… pic.twitter.com/lpWZnHQwk1
— Volcaholic 🌋 (@volcaholic1) June 17, 2025
As a result, the nation is at the highest alert status.
Geology agency head Muhammad Wafid said no one should carry out any activities within 7km of the eruption, and warned of potential lahar floods – a type of mud or debris flow of volcanic materials – if heavy rain occurs.
Residents were also urged to wear face masks to protect themselves from volcanic ash.
The National Disaster Mitigation Agency meanwhile said that at least one village had been evacuated, and ash rain was reported in several others outside the exclusion zone.
A spokesman called on residents around the volcano “to evacuate to safe locations” as tremors were still being detected, which indicated ongoing volcanic activity.
Mount Lewotobi Laki-laki is one of Indonesia’s active volcanoes, forming part of a twin volcano complex alongside Mount Lewotobi Perempuan on the island of Flores i. The name “Laki-laki” translates to “man” in Indonesian, reflecting local traditions that view the two peaks as a symbolic “husband and wife” pair; “Perempuan” means “woman”.
Both volcanoes are part of the Lesser Sunda Islands volcanic arc, shaped by the subduction of the Indo-Australian Plate beneath the Eurasian Plate (which, in turn, are part of the Pacific “Ring of Fire”).
I would like to wrap this post up by noting an ash cloud reaching 7 miles in altitude is significant because it extends into the upper troposphere and potentially the lower stratosphere. Volcanic eruptions that propel ash and gases to these heights can have both immediate and long-term effects on global weather and climate.
Ash clouds at 7 miles can block and scatter sunlight, causing temporary cooling at the Earth’s surface. This effect is most pronounced if the ash cloud spreads widely and persists in the atmosphere.
So maybe this is a good time to rescind the “carbon taxes” and greenhouse gas inanity?
Mount Lewotobi Laki Laki’s volcano in Indonesia has erupted.
If only climate change activists taxed you even more this could have been prevented. pic.twitter.com/LrRwUp4Ox4
— Steve 🇺🇸 (@SteveLovesAmmo) June 17, 2025
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Someone needs to tax Gaia for all that carbon she’s spewing into the atmosphere. Greta needs to investigate it. Fire up the sailboat. Just tell her the Jews did it.
That would be their equivalent of the Hawaiian Goddess Pele.
Cool, thanks Leslie. That’s exactly what I was wondering – was it a large enough eruption and did the ash cloud go high enough to affect the climate (and air quality, mileage may vary).
One good belch by the Earth and we don’t have global warming to worry about for a long while. This was a little burp.
Ah yes but global warming isn’t the problem. The real issue is climate change. If the weather gets hotter or colder that’s evidence of looming anthropogenic armageddon! The only way to truly solve climate change is to drive humanity to Stone Age technology so that people can longer longer use climate change models to see that the world is getting colderhotterdifferently weathered!
“The CO2-Jones Industrial crashed today…”
Left spin: Now even more we need emission controls to offset the volcanos.
Please don’t give the luddite leftists ideas!
What is the equivalent in cow farts?
Pretty much all of them I’d say
Lo, the poor Komodo.
We are seeing the equivalent of all the SUV ‘s in the world pollution in one day.
Is there any truth to the rumor that RI Senator Whitehouse immediately flew to Indonesia to tell the volcano “Knock it off!!” ?
White supremacist Sheldon will do whatever his wife tells him to do.
Any bets on how many microseconds it took until some moron on CNN or MSNBC blamed this on “the failed policies of Donald Trump” and until the ecocultists demanded a TRO from a cooperative Federal Judge to halt these unlawful emissions?
It must be noted that long before “anthropogenic climate change” was pushed, their previous scam, basically a trial balloon for methods and means, was the “ozone hole”. The South Polar Vortex, which happens every year to some extent or another, causes a slight decrease in upper-atmospheric ozone, a completely natural phenomenon. The collectivist/statist/authoritarians latched on this as a way to control/destroy a small part of the world’s economy by eliminating the cheapest, safest, and most economical refrigerants mankind ever invented, R-12 and R-22.
The excuse given was that since these were chlorofluorocarbons, they might possibly escape from refrigeration systems and mystically travel to the upper atmosphere where the chlorine would (again, mystically) be de-bound from the other atoms and bind with ozone. This was only ever shown, and poorly, in lab experiments. The result would (according to the complete lack of actual science and evidence) result in the total destruction of all ozone in the upper atmosphere, thus frying everything on Earth with ultraviolet light.
(Of course, it’s only a coincidence that DuPont’s patents on those compounds were expiring, and that part of the whole Montreal Protocol involved heavily subsidizing the construction of their new refrigerant manufacturing plant, but these things happen.)
Anybody remember the eruption of Mt. Pinatubo back in 1991? It directly injected all the way into the stratosphere more chlorine compounds than mankind has manufactured in the history of civilization. It cooled the planet for a couple of years, and (naturally) measurably dropped stratospheric ozone levels (which refrigerants had never been shown to do).
We were told before the refrigerant ban that it would take 50 years before the damage to the ozone layer would be reversed…but the last publicized measurements of ozone levels in the Vortex (2005, if I remember) showed that:
– Ozone levels were the highest ever measured in the “hole”
– The “hole” was the smallest ever measured, and then split into two segments and disappeared before further measurements could be taken.
Just like glueball wormening, the whole thing was scam by the collectivists to attempt to take over the world’s economy “by other means”.
The fact that millions of people have died due to lack of access to medicine and food storage through cheap, efficient refrigeration is just a side effect for these elitist-wannabes.
Local call it The Big Lebowski.
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