“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.
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!
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!!!