Vast magma reservoir found hiding beneath Yellowstone park

newscientist.com ^ | Andy Coghlan

[17th Miss Regt]

45 kilotonnes of carbon dioxide discharged daily

Why hasn't this outrage been outlawed already?

[mountn man]

[Bryanw92]

>>Why hasn’t this outrage been outlawed already?

Progs should go protest. First a volcano blows up on Erf Day and now this. If the Erf isn’t careful, the deniers will start to think that CO2 is naturally-occuring instead of just being a pollutant from SUVs and power plants.

[gorush]

When this sucker blows life will change for millions, if not billions, of people. It may happen during our lifetime, it may not. It is very overdue geologically speaking.

[Slyfox]

How soon before some ErfDay idiot blames humans for the huge magma reservoir?

[MaxMax]

All Aboard, climate deniers!

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

We could harness this and supply enough geothermal energy to the Western U.S. for the next 250 years but noooooo....the envirowackos won’t let us.

[who_would_fardels_bear]

I may retire to the Yellowstone Area.

Better to be quick-fried to a crackly crunch than baked to a delicate crunch ... or slowly frozen into a block of ash and ice.

[GeronL]

haven’t we been told about this for a while now?

[who_would_fardels_bear]

The problem with geothermal is not enviro-fascists.

I think it's that any kind of piping you put in there to capture the energy quickly deteriorates or clogs up with mineral deposits.

[Jan_Sobieski]

Calamity has befallen every other nation in history that killed its children. Are we next?

Revelation 6:12 And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo , there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood; 13 And the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind. 14 And the heaven departed as a scroll when it is rolled together ; and every mountain and island were moved out of their places. 15 And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every free man, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains; 16 And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb: 17 For the great day of his wrath is come ; and who shall be able to stand ?

[ExCTCitizen]

Ted Cruz fault... :-)

Is that soon enough?? :-)

[Salvey]

magma? smegma?

[markomalley]

This is new?

[Cicero]

That’s more carbon dioxide in one second than Al Gore farts in a whole year.

[Zhang Fei]

Which movie do you prefer - Dante’s Peak or Volcano?

[9thLife]

A vast, right-wing magma reservoir?

[Political Junkie Too]

Tell them that fracking caused it.

-PJ

[mountn man]

Dante's Peak!

It's not even close.

Every time I'm flipping thru the channels and come across it, I usually stop and watch the remainder of the movie.