I remember the St. Helens eruption. 50 miles away everything was covered in a light layer of ash, and if you tried to wash it off your car you just scratched up the paint job. Insurance wouldn't cover it.
Posted on 02/22/2025 6:38:44 AM PST by week 71
Slumbering five miles beneath the surface of Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming is a timebomb more than 640,000 years in the making.
The Yellowstone supervolcano is a vast reservoir of magma with the potential to unleash a category eight eruption over 100 times more powerful than Krakatoa.
Thankfully, Yellowstone or any supervolcano of its size has never erupted within recorded human history.
But now, artificial intelligence (AI) reveals exactly what that would look like.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Here is a hint: It would be bad. And it would be Trump’s fault. Ha Ha.
You are very astute.
A big Carrington event would be nearly as destructive to humanity and is much more immediately likely. An asteroid strike would be next on the list. Both can be mitigated with current technology by degree. The Yellowstone caldera cannot.
It would get dark.
Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh, I feel my temperature risin’, mm
Help me, I’m flamin’, I must be a 109, mmm
Burnin’, burnin’, burnin’ and nothing can cool me, yeah
I just might turn into smoke, but I feel fine
Only cockroaches and Adam Schiff would survive. But I repeat myself.
We would have to raise the carbon taxes to absorb the carbon this would set off.
The ash would be loaded with silica in micron sized particles. Air filters don’t grab enough of it to save engines...or lungs. It would be like dumping fine sand down your intake manifold the grant will also chew up gas turbine compressors and coat the burners and turbines with molten silica. Everywhere under that ash cloud will be immobile and also getting pulmonary fibrosis. P100 filters would save your lungs but will clog so fast as to of little use other than maybe trying to flee the ashfall area, on foot because vehicle engines will be chewed up in short order. Yellowstone kills North America as a viable place to live for decades until rains wash all the ash out of the air, fields and waterways.
Dr McGraw told MailOnline: ‘The relatively modest cooling that followed the largest eruption in tree ring temperature reconstructions, the Mt Samalas eruption in 1257 AD, suggests that even larger eruptions like Yellowstone may be unlikely to cause strong cooling.’
Dr McGraw adds that ‘theories of extreme global impacts have already been largely debunked.’
Climate change on a huge scale.
Global temps dropped 2c after Krakatoa
Personnel at Intel’s fab in Portland had to scramble big time when St. Helens blew. That’d be noise compared to a major Yellowstone event. I believe few realize the size of the caldera.
Volcanic ash is tiny particles of rock.
If you fly an airplane through a cloud it will sand off the paint on the plane. The rock will melt in the hottest part of a jet engine and resolidify in bigger chunks when it cools down.
Your car’s air filter is also not ratted or even capable of trapping such fine silica, it will get past it like smoke through a screen door. Once inside the engine some inevitably get on to that nice wet sticky surface where the oil film is inside the cylinders. Then it will grind ,rings ,bearings and valve stems into ruin. Your oil filter is not rated to capture these sized particles either. They are small enough to get past a OEM grade filter but still large enough to kill bearings and rings nasty little problem with single digit micron sized particles.
Almost no one has submicron bypass oil filters on their vehicles and even then they only filter 25% capacity per hour it’s bypass trickle ffiltering not bulk flow.
I see some upticks. The cell towers would be gone, people would have to talk to each other again.
Also tiny particles of volcanic glass. Volcanic glass is one of the sharpest edged materials there are—even sharper than diamond scalpels. When there are millions of them covering a surface they can make millions of very visible micro scratches. Not the best stuff to breathe either.
>> artificial intelligence (AI) reveals exactly...
ROFL. Sure it does.
I am not worried about these events happening. The good Lord is in charge, Earthly events all fall under his command, and those allowed to occur all have good reasons, unknown to us.
For those fearful, Try Jesus, if you don’t like him, Satan will always take you back.
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