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Yellowstone about to blow? Scientists warning over SUPER-VOLCANO that could kill MILLIONS
EXPRESS ^ | Jan 7, 2016 | JON AUSTIN

Posted on 01/07/2016 5:06:58 AM PST by PreciousLiberty

Instances of volcanic eruptions are their highest for 300 years and scientists fear a major one that could kill millions and devastate the planet is a real possibility.

Experts at the European Science Foundation said volcanoes - especially super-volcanoes like the one at Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, which has a caldera measuring 34 by 45 miles (55 by 72 km) - pose more threat to Earth and the survival of humans than asteroids, earthquakes, nuclear war and global warming.

There are few real contingency plans in place to deal with the ticking time bomb, which they conclude is likely to go off within the next 80 years.

The world's most dangerous active volcanoes include Yellowstone, Mount Vesuvius in Campagnia, Italy, and Popocatepetl i near Mexico City.

If any of them or other massive volcanic peaks suffered a major eruption the team said millions of people would die and earth's atmosphere would be poisoned with ash and other toxins "beyond the imagination of anything man's activity and global warming could do over 1,000 years.

The chance of such as eruption happening at one of the major volcanoes within 80 years is put at five to ten per cent by the experts.

(Excerpt) Read more at express.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: caldera; catastrophe; catastrophism; cooling; famine; volcano; yellowstone
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To: Flick Lives
"Will it help if I bike to work to reduce my carbon footprint?"

Only if you live in Northern Maine, Northern North Dakota, or the tip of Minnesota. And keep claim, that's an important word, CLAIM to keep your house at 60 or below, and are registered as a card carrying democrat.

61 posted on 01/07/2016 6:34:03 AM PST by The_Republic_Of_Maine (politicians beware)
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To: PreciousLiberty

You gotta bet Algore is reading this asking his minions how they can leverage it to make $$$dirty.


62 posted on 01/07/2016 6:34:30 AM PST by CincyRichieRich (Freedom is costly; but Marxism takes all.)
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To: RandallFlagg; BBB333

I live barely a long rifleshot north of the park and I can tell you THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NOTHING TO WORR


63 posted on 01/07/2016 6:34:59 AM PST by Fightin Whitey
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To: beaversmom

That video just about says it all. snort))))))))))):)


64 posted on 01/07/2016 6:36:30 AM PST by Ditter (God Bless Texas!)
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To: TexasRepublic
100% probability that all of us will die within our lifetime

Even more if you ever smoked, drank, masturbated or used a tanning bed!

65 posted on 01/07/2016 6:38:16 AM PST by Fightin Whitey
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To: Fightin Whitey

Man, I’m doomed!


66 posted on 01/07/2016 6:41:04 AM PST by HonorInPa
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To: PreciousLiberty

Sundance Kid: It’s your great ideas that got us into this mess. I never want to hear another one of your great ideas. Ever!
Butch Cassidy: Australia. I thought that secretly you wanted to know so I told you.
Sundance Kid: That’s your great idea?
Butch Cassidy: The latest in a long line. We get out of here alive, we go to Australia. Goodbye, Bolivia. Hello to Australia.
Sundance Kid: Australia is no better than here.
Butch Cassidy: That’s all you know.
Sundance Kid: Name me one thing.
Butch Cassidy: They speak English in Australia.
Sundance Kid: They do?
Butch Cassidy: That’s right, smart guy, so we wouldn’t be foreigners. We’d blend in more easily. They got horses in Australia and thousands of miles of countryside that we can hide out in, and good climate. Nice beaches. You can learn to swim.
Sundance Kid: No. Swimming isn’t important. What about the banks?
Butch Cassidy: Very easy. Easy, ripe, and luscious.
Sundance Kid: The banks or the women?
Butch Cassidy: Well, once you get one you get the other.
Sundance Kid: But... Australia is quite a long way from here.
Butch Cassidy: Oh, please! Everything with you has got to be perfect!
Sundance Kid: I just don’t want to get there and realize that it stinks, that’s all.
Butch Cassidy: At least think about it.
Sundance Kid: All right... I’ll think about it.


67 posted on 01/07/2016 6:41:19 AM PST by xp38
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To: TexasFreeper2009
You're not thinking Big enough. Put on your best 1950s B-scifi movie hat. Imagine that the force of the explosion knocks the earth off of its axis, its orbit begins to decay, and we slowly begin to move closer to the Sun.

That's Big!

-PJ

68 posted on 01/07/2016 6:42:49 AM PST by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
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To: TexasRepublic

Not me. I plan to live forever. So far it is working.


69 posted on 01/07/2016 6:46:36 AM PST by Bubba_Leroy (The Obamanation Continues)
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To: PreciousLiberty
The Yellowstone hot spot trail records the movement of the drifting North American plate as it rides over a deep-seeded stationary hot spot. It is especially dangerous because its magma is partly made up of melted continental rock, which is thicker than oceanic basin magma, and thus traps more potentially explosive gases.

 photo yellowstonehotspottrail1_zpsy3h47upl.jpg

 photo Yellowstone volcano 02_zps668mr273.jpg

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70 posted on 01/07/2016 6:49:31 AM PST by ETL (Ted Cruz 2016!! -- For a better, safer America)
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To: ronnie raygun
And one volcano eclipses the global warming scammers

Yeah, but let's find better ways to debunk them...!

71 posted on 01/07/2016 6:52:15 AM PST by Another Post-American (Jesus died for your sins.)
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To: ExCTCitizen
 photo FR Humor - Yellowstone_zpsjm02uaxu.jpg
72 posted on 01/07/2016 6:54:47 AM PST by ETL (Ted Cruz 2016!! -- For a better, safer America)
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To: TexasRepublic
I predict a 100% probability that all of us will die within our lifetime.

I've got $1,000,000 that says you are wrong. By definition, no one dies "within our lifetime", rather we die immediately after our lifetime.

73 posted on 01/07/2016 6:55:07 AM PST by BlueMondaySkipper (Involuntarily subsidizing the parasite class since 1981)
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To: PreciousLiberty
HEADLINE: Yellowstone Volcano To Blow, Destroy World! Women, Children, And Minorities Hurt Worst!!!

There. I'm just trying get things into perspective.

74 posted on 01/07/2016 6:57:57 AM PST by Gritty (Syrians aren't Jews fleeing Nazi Holocaust but Nazis relocating from a bombed out Berlin-DGreenfield)
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To: Political Junkie Too
How about this one? I saw it as a child in the 1960s in theatre and it spooked me.


75 posted on 01/07/2016 6:59:08 AM PST by xp38
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To: r_barton

“Well we are pumping out all that oil. That oil lubricates the earth’s axis. Pump out too much oil, the earth’s axis seizes up and it blows. It’s mankind’s fault. ;-)”

Aw, crap, ya had to go and give the liberals their next big agenda, didn’t you! Dammit!


76 posted on 01/07/2016 7:05:41 AM PST by CodeToad (Islam should be banned and treated as a criminal enterprise!)
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To: Gritty
 photo FR Humor - Yellowstone 02_zpsp4kdy5og.jpg

Don't bother trying to read the small text. It has nothing to do with the headline I generated using some online program I found. There is no option for adding your own story--only newspaper name and headlines.

77 posted on 01/07/2016 7:13:18 AM PST by ETL (Ted Cruz 2016!! -- For a better, safer America)
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To: Fightin Whitey

All at the same time?


78 posted on 01/07/2016 7:18:11 AM PST by july4thfreedomfoundation (Trump or Cruz in 2016. No others need apply.)
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To: BwanaNdege

1 to 3 mil’s is a sand storm for us.


79 posted on 01/07/2016 7:25:48 AM PST by Dusty Road (")
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To: Jimmy Valentine

Be glad you were not sniffing glue.


80 posted on 01/07/2016 7:31:30 AM PST by brivette
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