Pollution?? But I thought volcanoes were part of Nature??

I thought that only stuff was called “pollution” is that made by Humankind, as the Enviros keep castigating us for “despoiling Nature”.  So who are they gonna legislate against when it is Nature “polluting” Nature?  Kindofa head scratching moment here – how are they gonna force a volcano to install a sulfer scrubber on itself?? Reformatted, emphasis mine:

Gas-Spewing Icelandic Volcano Stuns Scientists
The sulfur-rich eruption defied preparations for an ashy blast

Icelandic sunrises and sunsets have been tinged blood red, of late. Above the maritime bustle of Reykjavik’s harbour and the city’s towering concrete Hallgrímskirkja church, volcanic pollution gives the skies an eerie glow.  For eight weeks, lava has been spurting out of a fissure in the ground radiating from the Bárðarbunga volcano, about 250 kilometers from Reykjavik. Sulphur dioxide has been spurting too — 35,000 tons of it a day, more than twice the amount spewing from all of Europe’s smokestacks. The gas has spread across the Icelandic countryside, causing people to wheeze and trapping some indoors.

Isn’t this just Nature being, you know, Nature?  And if Nature is doing it, shouldn’t it be a good thing?   But I dryly take note of that bit that Nature is swamping the efforts of the developed world spending BILLIONS of bucks to get rid of their pollution in the EU while this volcano is “guilty” of this heinous crime against Nature.  Doesn’t it just about shines a flashlight, to a degree, on Man’s hubris that we can control climate affecting pollution just on our say-so.

The record-setting amount of pollution has surprised even volcanologists in the middle of a major project funded by the European Union to understand the island’s fiery activity. They had been preparing for a repeat of the 2010 Eyjafjallajökull eruption, which led to a billowing ash plume that grounded planes across Europe. “Everybody was expecting a big ash cloud, and now we have something totally different,” says Anja Schmidt, an atmospheric modeller at the University of Leeds, UK, who studies how volcanic gases spread.

If we don’t know what’s going on in a single localized event in the “now”, but the enviros KNOW what will happen climate-wise 100 years from now?

But still can’t explain the 18 year hiatus of global warming that is happening “now”?