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This Is the Way the World Ends? Volcanoes Could Darken World
ABC News ^ | June 6, 2012 | LEE DYE

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 ...


TOPICS: Extended News; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: catastrophism; godsgravesglyphs; junkscience; toba
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To: presidio9
well luckily folks...You can avoid the hassle!......

I have just started a new business....Lava and Smoke Insurance...Plus!...If u subscribe now...I can give u free carbon credits!....

21 posted on 06/06/2012 8:11:33 PM PDT by M-cubed
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To: presidio9
Related more technical thread here.
22 posted on 06/06/2012 8:19:11 PM PDT by null and void (Day 1233 of our ObamaVacation from reality [and what dark chill/is gathering still/before the storm])
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To: JRandomFreeper

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.


23 posted on 06/06/2012 8:21:32 PM PDT by DJtex
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To: garjog

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!


24 posted on 06/06/2012 8:21:40 PM PDT by M-cubed
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To: presidio9

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


25 posted on 06/06/2012 8:24:48 PM PDT by mamelukesabre
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To: presidio9

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.


26 posted on 06/06/2012 8:25:48 PM PDT by pallis
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To: DJtex

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!


27 posted on 06/06/2012 8:27:31 PM PDT by djf ("There are more old drunkards than old doctors." - Benjamin Franklin)
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To: DJtex
1,000 breeding pairs

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

28 posted on 06/06/2012 8:28:55 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: JRandomFreeper
Except Yellowstone.

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!

29 posted on 06/06/2012 8:29:23 PM PDT by M-cubed
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To: M-cubed
.He wrote the plumbing code for this joint!

That, He did. ;)

/johnny

30 posted on 06/06/2012 8:35:57 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: fatrat

A supervolcano would throw more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere than a billion automobiles.


31 posted on 06/06/2012 8:36:25 PM PDT by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Implementing class warfare by having no class!)
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To: Theoria
Second largest eruption in the world since Tambora happened 100 years ago this day! Novarupta in the Mt. Katmai area in Alaska, leading to formation of the "Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes (which have cooled and no longer smoke)" and a huge crater lake. It put out about 14 cubic miles of magma, 30 times St. Helens. It was about 2/3 the size of Krakatoa and a bit larger than the only other VE6 of the 20th Century, Pinatubo. It was so isolated then that only 10 fatalities were reported, but was so unusual was made a national monument within 6 years. I doubt 1 in 100, at least outside of Alaskans, can name the volcano with the largest eruption in the history of the US.
32 posted on 06/06/2012 8:38:16 PM PDT by JohnBovenmyer (Obama been Liberal. Hope Change!)
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To: pallis
They can’t be blamed on man, unless some nut ties them to fracking.

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).

33 posted on 06/06/2012 8:40:37 PM PDT by jiggyboy (Ten percent of poll respondents are either lying or insane)
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To: JohnBovenmyer
Thanks. Alaska has had several distinct glimpses of power.

Unreal:

1958 Lituya Bay megatsunami

World's Biggest Tsunami

34 posted on 06/06/2012 8:44:23 PM PDT by Theoria (Rush Limbaugh: Ron Paul sounds like an Islamic terrorist)
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To: Theoria

The second most amazing thing about that huge splash was that it was ridden by multiple survivors.


35 posted on 06/06/2012 9:09:22 PM PDT by JohnBovenmyer (Obama been Liberal. Hope Change!)
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To: presidio9

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.


36 posted on 06/06/2012 9:12:43 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: presidio9

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


37 posted on 06/06/2012 9:17:17 PM PDT by Vesparado
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To: presidio9

Personally I now believe a giant meteor of burning oil will hit a huge CO2-filled super volcano and that will be it.

/sarc


38 posted on 06/06/2012 9:29:17 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (I can neither confirm or deny that; even if I could, I couldn't - it's classified.)
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To: LiveFree99

Unless Christ returns before I die, eventually I will die.


39 posted on 06/06/2012 9:29:50 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (I can neither confirm or deny that; even if I could, I couldn't - it's classified.)
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To: C210N
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...

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?

40 posted on 06/06/2012 9:30:14 PM PDT by GOPJ (Take your little hammer, little sickle and your scary red signs with a fist on it, and go home...)
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