The Next Yellowstone Supereruption Is Closer Than You Think
http://gizmodo.com/5906622/the-yellowstone-supereruption-is-closer-than-you-think/
For those of you who don’t know, we have here in the US heartland one of the most dangerous types of volcanoes on this planet. It is the Yellowstone ‘super’ volcano and if it gets a bee in its bonnet could pretty much destroy all life in the US to the East of the park in just a few days. Life would suck for the rest of the Northern Hemisphere and the fallout (literally, the ash fallout) will likely impact the entire globe at some point. Nuclear winter and all that, so all this babble about global warming will seem quite quaint.
So the article is saying that new and improved dating techniques show that there have been more eruptions than previously thought, thus the magnitude of each eruption is less. How much less, though, is the kicker. What point is there in being 12% less dead? Maybe there will be some sparing of the people south of the equator, but I doubt that 12% will matter much to anyone in the North.
Anyway, if you needed any other reasons to lay awake at night worrying, here you go…
