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1 posted on 12/04/2009 3:08:19 PM PST by NormsRevenge
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This satellite image shows smoldering underground fires that took place at Toba in 1997.
A devastating volcanic eruption occurred at the site roughly 73,000 years ago.
Credit: NASA

2 posted on 12/04/2009 3:10:42 PM PST by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed .. Monthly Donor Onboard .. May yur bandwidth exceed your girth)
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Archeologists and anthropologists agree that women and minorities were hardest hit.


3 posted on 12/04/2009 3:10:48 PM PST by freedumb2003 (Communism comes to America: 1/20/2009. Keep your powder dry, folks. Sic semper tyrannis)
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“released an estimated 800 cubic kilometers of ash into the atmosphere that blanketed the skies and blocked out sunlight for six years.”

Six years??? I rather doubt that.


4 posted on 12/04/2009 3:15:29 PM PST by TexasRepublic (Socialism is the gospel of envy and the religion of thieves)
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To: NormsRevenge

So this was before the Flood right? :-)


5 posted on 12/04/2009 3:16:03 PM PST by mgstarr ("Some of us drink because we're not poets." Arthur (1981))
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Ping
7 posted on 12/04/2009 3:16:09 PM PST by colorado tanker (What's it all about, Barrrrry? Is it just for the power, you live?)
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To: NormsRevenge

If Yellowstone blows...we are all toast!


9 posted on 12/04/2009 3:22:11 PM PST by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannolis. Take it to the Mattress.")
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To: NormsRevenge
released an estimated 800 cubic kilometers of ash into the atmosphere that blanketed the skies and blocked out sunlight for six years.

Is a cubic km of ash figured as ash that has settled out of the atmosphere or atmosphere containing ash at an arbitrary percentage?
15 posted on 12/04/2009 3:26:48 PM PST by aruanan
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To: NormsRevenge

To-ba! To-ba! To-ba!


18 posted on 12/04/2009 3:36:47 PM PST by DTogo (High time to bring back the Sons of Liberty !!)
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To: NormsRevenge
The lack of genetic diversity among humans alive today suggests that during this time period humans came very close to becoming extinct.

Nova suggested it was down to 600 individuals during a program last month.

19 posted on 12/04/2009 3:40:18 PM PST by EVO X
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To: NormsRevenge

This article proves just how helpless man is in controlling climate.


20 posted on 12/04/2009 3:53:03 PM PST by Circle_Hook (Rage against the Machine!)
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To: NormsRevenge

Now, that’s climate change!


26 posted on 12/04/2009 6:13:01 PM PST by rejoicing
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Throw ALGORE into the volcano to please the Gods.


28 posted on 12/05/2009 6:40:39 AM PST by bmwcyle (When do they collect and jail the homeless when they don't buy their health care?)
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To: NormsRevenge

bump


29 posted on 12/05/2009 7:06:04 AM PST by VOA (I)
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