New Yellowstone Thermal Activity Heats Fears of Supervolcano

Mystic Wanderer,Nugget, can't wait have the popcorn and stella's ready! !!

Actually, my first big assignment in last year's Geology course was the Yellowstone Caldera and its potential impact with another eruption. I adapted the essay paper to something better and more entertaining online here:

Super Volcanoes and the Yellowstone Caldera

Someone posted in the middle of my string of ops.... but scroll down and there is more with nice graphics to add to it.

To put it as simply as it can be? Yellowstone is the one geologists try not to think too hard about, when they aren't daydreaming of seeing such a titanic event happen...if that makes sense. The impact on the surface would be a majority loss of life that existed when it started, which CAN come without much warning at all.

Science just recently learned the true size and depth..which, in my view for their bumbling accuracy, may still not be seeing all there is to see of it...



I believe I covered the scary Hollywood details in the other thread, but the killer isn't the blast itself, or even the short term impacts. Its 10 long YEARS (or so) without favorable growing conditions or meaningful harvests, world wide. Even the lower life would largely (but likely not entirely) die off, with the loss of regular vegetation over that period. Cloudy skies are only PART of what causes all that, too. Volcanic soil can be some of the richest soil on the planet....and ask anyone in Hawaii about that one. However, it first comes out and settles sterile. So... it's a whole chain of little doom events following the super-eruption that really resets life on Earth.

Mystic Wanderer,
THIS! This has some meat to it. And I don't say that light hearted. If this one blows, we are pretty much screwed here in the US. And will have global impact as well. In the aftermath, maybe we will need a NWO just for humanity to survive? (Of course, there will be the have's and have not's, but in the bigger picture?)

What @wrabbit2000 said. It won't be the physical eruption that does us in, that's localized for the most part. It's going to be all that ash in the atmosphere swirling around the planet in the upper reaches disrupting our sunlight levels, and impacting the temperatures for many years that will be like an Achilles Heel domino effect. Even indoor/greenhouse growth will be impacted, solar panels won't be able to accumulate as much energy, which will cut down on the overall amount of artificial light produced. We still may be able to do it with carbon fuels and perhaps wind energy, but it's going to be a massive venture to grow almost totally indoors for billions of people globally. With all the facilities that will need built to make up for the loss of what won't survive on it's own while the literal volcanic fallout filters out of the atmosphere, and all the energy that will need to be redirected to do that, it's only going to stretch so far for our planetary population.

I wonder if Florida would be impacted being that it's the furthest from the epicenter? ?

I like your thinking there Mr. Mouse...

My fear is economic or EMP, medically if I make 65 it will be a party.. But hey you only live 100's of times so no worry.