If Rankin/Bass taught us nothing else, surely we should have learned by now to obey Mother Nature...
Posted on 06/06/2012 7:25:44 PM PDT by presidio9
Are you worried about the end of life as we know it? Then don't just look to the sky for that catastrophic asteroid that could be heading our way. The end may come from right beneath your feet.
Super-volcanoes have probably caused more extinctions than asteroids. But until now it has been thought that these giant volcanoes took thousands of years to form -- and would remain trapped beneath the earth's crust for thousands more years -- before having much effect on the planet.
But new research indicates these catastrophic eruptions, possibly thousands of times more powerful than the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens, may happen only a few hundred years after the volcanoes form. In other words, they may have a very "short fuse," according to researchers at Vanderbilt University.
Such an event could make thermonuclear war or global warming seem trivial, spewing untold tons of ash into the atmosphere to block sunlight. The result would be many years of frigid temperatures, wiping out millions of species. A super-volcano that erupted 250 million years ago is now believed to have created the greatest mass extinction the world has ever seen, wiping out up to 95 percent of all plant and animal species. Some renegade scientists believe it was a volcano, not an asteroid, that killed off the dinosaurs 65 million years ago.
But is global suicide lurking right below our feet? Is a super-volcano about to blow its top? Not as far as scientists can tell. Such a volcano results from the accumulation of a giant pool of lava just a few miles below the ground, and there is no known formation anywhere on the planet that is expected to erupt in the immediate future.
Scientists, who could be wrong about that,
(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...
Let’s face it, we’re ALL going to die. Someday.
The key question is what is man doing to spur these volcanoes, and how many multiples of the total of the world’s GDP will have to be spent to stop it...
and, until the answers to those questions are known, we won’t really be able to become super volcano deniers.
“Such a volcano results from the accumulation of a giant pool of lava just a few miles below the ground, and there is no known formation anywhere on the planet that is expected to erupt in the immediate future.”
Admittedly didn’t click the link to read more. Yahoo news takes forever to load on dial up.
The quote above from the excerpt left me wondering about Yellowstone, and all the articles scaring the you-know-what out of us about how a huge percentage of the U.S. will go bye-bye when it explodes. NOT IF it explodes, but WHEN it explodes.
Any comments?
Except Yellowstone.
And some places in far east Russia.
I won't worry about what I can't do anything about. But it is good to double-check your insurance should something happen.
/johnny
If Rankin/Bass taught us nothing else, surely we should have learned by now to obey Mother Nature...
So let’s hurry the global warming along to help counteract the cooling from one of these volcanoes erupting.
IOW they haven't reached a "consensus" declaring the science "settled"....look for this right about the time the EPA lackeys finish drafting some horrendous bill for kongress to pass stealing more of our money and freedom.
FYI
So all of this handwringing over “global cooling/warming/change” was for nothing?
No. Global warming/cooling is a perfectly natural process. The Sun, volcanoes, asteroids. The BS is Anthropogenic Global Warming.
Best to remember that we're all here for less than a speck of the larger picture of time and that no one or anything living gets out of here alive. Mortal coils are just that, squishy and vulverable vehicles made up mostly of water. But not to worry. We are souls and we have bodies and squatters' rights to this realm on a very short term lease.
Time for another trillion$ government spending on welfare "entitlements."
That cures everything!
< /sarc >
“global suicide lurking right below our feet?”
OK, here is what is behind this article: a bunch of vulcanologist are having a hard time finding employment.
What if YOU devoted 12 years to studying volcanoes and now need to pay student loans while your parents are wondering when you will move out of the basement?
SO, you write papers about the new GLOBAL CATASTROPHE AT ANY MOMENT from exploding mountains.
But wait! We don’t have enough information about the GLOBAL CATASTROPHE AT ANY MOMENT!
Quick! We must hire as many vulcanologists to study the impending doom as the Federal budget will permit!
This tactic is just like the Killer Bees, H1N1, mass extinction of sharks and global warming and ozone depletion scare — employment insurance for obscure science.
What was Algore thinking when he invented volcanos???
Mortal coils are just that, squishy and vulverable vehicles made up mostly of water.
That's the chemist's view of biology. A physicist would say that we're almost entirely empty space.
Rev 8:5
And the angel took the censer, and filled it with fire of the altar, and cast [it] into the earth: and there were voices, and thunderings, and lightnings, and an earthquake.
Jam 5:3
Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.
Rev 14:18
And another angel came out from the altar, which had power over fire; and cried with a loud cry to him that had the sharp sickle, saying, Thrust in thy sharp sickle, and gather the clusters of the vine of the earth; for her grapes are fully ripe.
And you don't want to know what a cook thinks. ;)
/johnny
I have just started a new business....Lava and Smoke Insurance...Plus!...If u subscribe now...I can give u free carbon credits!....
The Toba supereruption 70,000 years ago led to a 6-10 year volcanic winter that almost wiped out the human population worldwide, down to 10,000 souls or 1,000 breeding pairs. This bottleneck in the population still shows up in the genes of everyone on earth and was a puzzle until gene researchers compared notes with geologists.
oh Jeez!...if that makes the MSM u are a dead man walking!...if the black suits visit you...tell them u were drunk and the dog must have wrote it!...Pay the dogs fine and promise to tape his mouth!
This Is the Way the World Ends? Volcanoes Could Darken World
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and this is why we must outlaw fracking right now/sarc
Anything real makes global warming look trivial, which is why liberals shouldn’t be scaring us with tales of super volcanos. They can’t be blamed on man, unless some nut ties them to fracking.
Correct, except it was far more than 6-10 years.
At it’s peak, temps worldwide dropped 10 degrees Celsius.
The O14-O16 ratios trapped in ocean sediments didn’t return to what was normal for almost a thousand years!
Well, that means I come from good (and very, very busy) stock. You would think they spent all their time farming, feuding and.... stuff.
/johnny
And some places in far east Russia.<<
Jeez!..U think God doesn't know about thermodynamics and the need for Vents??...He wrote the plumbing code for this joint!
That, He did. ;)
/johnny
A supervolcano would throw more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere than a billion automobiles.
Ha, piece of cake, look for articles comparing drilling fracking wells into our full-of-lava planet to shooting your gas furnace with a handgun (unlicensed of course).
Unreal:
The second most amazing thing about that huge splash was that it was ridden by multiple survivors.
Blame it on Bush. Why not? The leftists have blamed him for everything from Pompei to the extinction of the dinosaur.
Volcanoes - Nature’s superfarts.
Remember the guidelines for what to do if the news reports a super volcano is expected to explode shortly in your general area:
- Secure valuable on your person (keys, cell phone, wallet, change, etc.) in (preferably) hard case container and keep near you.
- Loosen your collar
- Switch to loose fitting slippers or shoes that can be removed quickly
- Remove your belt and loosen the top fastener on your pants
- Sit in a comfortable chair, bending your head way over and as far down between your thighs as possible (you may need to grasp your ankles to do this)
- Kiss your ass goodbye
Personally I now believe a giant meteor of burning oil will hit a huge CO2-filled super volcano and that will be it.
/sarc
Unless Christ returns before I die, eventually I will die.
We know you're being funny - but liberals might see this and glom onto their next scam. Don't wanna give 'em any ideas now do we?
We are much more likely to be taken out by something man made. Nuclear power plants.
Fire and Ice
Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I’ve tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.
Robert Frost
And you don't want to know what a cook thinks. ;)
Same thing the bear does, a s'pose.
Please elaborate.
See post 37 above. /s
BTW, much more important than this fast trigger situation an earlier report of great concern was that when one of those pools of magma pushes up through cracks in the silicon crust of Earth (yup, place is like one of those big clear marbles with crazing near the surface)the rocks in the way, which were left behind the last time this happened, melt easier than surrounding rocks.
What that means is that where you know there's an ancient extinct volcano ~ maybe deep under ground, or maybe even standing there like that old volcanic core featured in Encounters of the Third King, that will melt before anything else, and boil off and just cause all sorts of volcanic like problems, but mostly it will soften up and let that magma through to ooze out and spread!
I am much less worried about a magma pool that's been squished around by a descending tectonic plate under Oregon than I am about the core of an ancient volcano in Reston VA ~ about 5 miles away!!!
I really don’t need to. There are event worse events than Japan on the horizon. And that one is far from over. There are so many ways that things can go wrong with nuclear power.
But ask yourself this. How many of those power plants are in range of Yellowstone? If such a volcano goes off then those plants will detonate in short order, Spewing radioactive waste far and wide, and there is nothing that man will be able to do about it. The environmental damage from the volcano will be the least of our problems. Even assuming no explosive damage to those plants then think about the logistics of keeping the cooling systems operating in such and environment. Ash falling 100 feet deep(soon to be radioactive ash), zero visibility, Planes unable to fly, Trucks unable to travel, ect...
The insanity of existing nuclear power plants is self evident. The probability of unrecoverable disaster is mathematically certain. Everyone just needs to think a little.
Sure you do. You can start by telling me what, exactly, was so horrible about Japan.
But ask yourself this. How many of those power plants are in range of Yellowstone? If such a volcano goes off then those plants will detonate in short order,
Um, nuclear power plants don't "detonate," and if a supervolcano erupts (which even this fearmongering author admits is not likely anytime "soon") the power plants will be the leat of our problems.
The insanity of existing nuclear power plants is self evident. The probability of unrecoverable disaster is mathematically certain. Everyone just needs to think a little.
If this passes for logic in your world, I'm surprised you ever leave the house. A plague of killer rabbits is a "mathematical certainty."
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