Posted on 01/08/2016 1:49:27 PM PST by BenLurkin
With enough warning, the states near Yellowstone could be evacuated, which would largely avoid a tremendous loss of life caused by the downpour of ash, the scientists said. But that's just in the short term; the aftermath would be the rub. For several days, ash would hang in the air, making it difficult to breathe. And that blanket of ash covering the country would smother vegetation and pollute the water supply, quickly leading to a nationwide food crisis. "A lot of people would perish," said Stephen Self, director of the Volcano Dynamics Group at the Open University in the U.K. He envisions American refugees lining up at the Mexican border.
...inhospitable conditions would persist in the midwestern U.S. for about a decade. "The records show that [new] vegetation starts to take hold about 10 years after supereruptions. It depends on how much rainfall the area receives, as rainfall is the main way you clear ash off the land..."
Based on the new models, the scientists now think the vast majority of Earth's species would weather a Yellowstone supereruption just fine (except, of course, for those knocked out due to proximity of the initial blast). They don't see any evidence in the geologic record of mass extinctions coinciding with supereruptions, and they don't predict extinctions to result from such geologic events in the future.
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Yellowstone's last full-scale outburst occurred 640,000 years ago, and the ones before that occurred 1.3 million and 2.1 million years ago — but each of these events was a tad smaller than the one before it. This geologic hotspot could be growing cold. Or it might have one last hurrah.
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It will be used as a reason to ditch capitalism and the Constitution.
What liberais left alive would blame it on climate change brought on by right-wing deniers.
A 2012 article?
I thought something was up with that.
4 years ago, maybe...
The USA would be destroyed.
The last light of civilization would be extinguished.
Just to be safe, I think we need relocate DC to yellowstone.
The Skiing at Grand Targhee, Jackson Hole and the Yellowstone Club will be poor for a couple of seasons.
These things happen once every million or so years. Four years is nothing.
It wont matter who wins Iowa
Well it better not erupt before or during my job interview coming up.
“A lot of people would perish . . ..”
Well, no kiddin’. I love insightful analysis. Does this guy get paid for doing this?
Oldplayer
And go where, exactly? As somebody who lives in the fallout zone, if that thing goes, I'm going to break out the good Scotch, put on a little REM, sit on the back deck, and have a toast to the end of it all.
It’ll happen exactly three minutes after I win the Powerball on Saturday.
My atoms will become part of Old Faithful.
Well, I’m a coupla hunnert miles upwind. I figure, 10 years of pork rinds in the basement and a beer well and I’m good to go. Oh, yeah, and a really long weenie-roasting fork.
It would solve the bear and pic-a-nic basket problems?
Sadly, Seattle will still be there.
“Wherever I go I hope there’s Rum!”
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