“Supervolcanoes:” A Potential Global Catastrophe

March 11, 2005

  • March 11, 2005 at 7:52 am
    Johnny says:
    Like or Dislike:
    Thumb up 0
    Thumb down 0

    What we need to concentrate on is to built several hugh windmill type of fans. These fans would blow holes through those dark clouds creating a type of window for the sun to shine. Water can be dug out of the earth with machines too. Do not despair. God will protect us and show us the way to survive. This is why we need to stop fighting around the world and make peace and work as one. God Bless the World, not just America.

  • March 11, 2005 at 10:19 am
    "frosty" says:
    Like or Dislike:
    Thumb up 0
    Thumb down 0

    I guess then we can truthfully report, ” The Sky is falling Henny Penney!”
    I spent 7 years as a Captain of Geologic Research Vessels, mainly in Alaska. The scientists always wanted me to anchor next to an active volcano! Veniaminoff, Augustine, Pavlov and Pavlov’s sister are some that come to mind. For some unknown reason, I just couldn’t bear to anchor my vessel next to an erupting volcano!

  • March 11, 2005 at 1:06 am
    Dick Mader says:
    Like or Dislike:
    Thumb up 0
    Thumb down 0

    First of all I question how scientists can conclude that these type of eruptions happen every 600,000 years…who witnessed the last one and wrote about it???
    As far as the “Super Volcanoe Exclusion” in insurance policies…who the heck would be around to worry about coverage being excluded…the BBC cracks me up.

  • March 11, 2005 at 1:39 am
    drudy says:
    Like or Dislike:
    Thumb up 0
    Thumb down 0

    and just when i am ready to collect my social security. us gov. spent all the surplus,and now this!

  • March 11, 2005 at 4:20 am
    BASKIN says:
    Like or Dislike:
    Thumb up 0
    Thumb down 0

    You have to consider the source, the half baked, half cocked BBC.

  • March 11, 2005 at 4:41 am
    hsw says:
    Like or Dislike:
    Thumb up 0
    Thumb down 0

    they know when the last 3 yellowstone eruption happened by examine layers of ash. The last one deposited 4 feet of ash 800 miles away.
    Dick is right about nobody would be around to collect.
    People who survive will not need to build houses or roads or office buildings for a century or more.

    If they population of a state is wipe out but many of the buildings remain standing who would own them.
    85 to 99% of people in north american would die and up to 75% of the rest of the world would die.
    The would be no crops for several years.
    BUT LOOK AT THE BRIGHT SIDE!!
    NO MORE WORRIES ABOUT GLOBAL WARMING.
    NO MORE PROBLEM GETTING OIL.
    AFTER A FEW YEARS WEATHER WOULD RETURN TO NORMAL AND THERE WOULD BE.
    MORE THAN ENOUGH FOOD FOR EVERYONE
    AN OVERSUPPLY OF HOUSING.
    EVERYONE COULD HAVE 2 GOOD CARS.
    would the stronger nations take food from the weaker nations.
    Should every over 65 be killed so more people could survive.
    Should people be allowed to have children.
    How would the gene pool of the world be changed.

  • March 12, 2005 at 7:43 am
    CutTheMuster says:
    Like or Dislike:
    Thumb up 0
    Thumb down 0

    The HO1,HO2,HO3 policies reference volcano eruptions fire explosion ash lava flow are covered losses unless there is an earthquake and then it would not be covered unless there is an earthquake endorsement. Glass breakage is fully covered in any event.
    The difficulty would be proving there was not an earthquake or earth movement in a volcano loss.

  • March 12, 2005 at 11:06 am
    Stuart says:
    Like or Dislike:
    Thumb up 0
    Thumb down 0

    Dick – it was Insurance Journal, not the BBC, that suggested the farcical notion of super volcano exclusions (and I kind of assume they were joking…) And Baskin, given the rot regularly put out by the Discovery Channel I hardly think it’s fair to describe the BBC, whose source in this admittedly populist bit of speculation was science from the US, as either half-baked or half-cocked. And no, I don’t work for them.

  • March 14, 2005 at 7:45 am
    Gloria says:
    Like or Dislike:
    Thumb up 0
    Thumb down 0

    This is kind of disappointing because I feel that Old Faithful is so pleasant to watch. Who would have thought that it is going to become an uncontrolable destroyer of nations. At least we’ll know what time the end of the world will begin.

    With that being said, Super Volcano insurance? I smell a new revenue source.

  • March 14, 2005 at 11:29 am
    Arthur Ciszek says:
    Like or Dislike:
    Thumb up 0
    Thumb down 0

    Hmm…Supervolcano? Was not aware that there was such a huge bed of magma underneath Yellowstone National Park. Perhaps we need to get 1,000,000 steam shovels and start digging some vertical shafts so that we can relieve some of that pressure that is supposedly building up.

    What to do with that excess magma?

    LAVA LAMPS!!!

  • March 14, 2005 at 2:03 am
    Chuck says:
    Like or Dislike:
    Thumb up 0
    Thumb down 0

    How about if we all get a seat in the yellow submarine?

  • March 15, 2005 at 2:43 am
    Colin Henshaw says:
    Like or Dislike:
    Thumb up 0
    Thumb down 0

    Supervolcanoes are certainly a major area for concern, but probably pale into insignificance when compared to flood basalts such as the Deccan Traps in India, that formed around 65,000,000 years ago. I suspect these may have been triggered by the Yucatan asteroid impact that was approximately antipodal to it at the time, and together they would have been responsible for the extinction of the dinosaurs. Asteroid impacts in the sea will also generate megatsunamis that make the December 26th 2004 event in South East seem small in comparison. These would swamp many coastal areas and eliminate many island nations, especially in the Caribean Sea, and the Indian and Pacific Oceans.

  • March 14, 2005 at 3:21 am
    Badbob says:
    Like or Dislike:
    Thumb up 0
    Thumb down 0

    Methinks that this documentary has already been shown in the states, as I’ve already watched it.

    It Yellowstone ever blows it’s stack, I’d like to see who’s left to take the claim report … lol.

    Bob

  • March 14, 2005 at 4:17 am
    blah blah blah says:
    Like or Dislike:
    Thumb up 0
    Thumb down 0

    i think its stupid that the program was only on 4 to days

  • March 15, 2005 at 9:03 am
    Robert Smith says:
    Like or Dislike:
    Thumb up 0
    Thumb down 0

    There are two shows that deal with the Yellowstone supervolcano. One is more a 1 hour documentary on the National Geographic Channel. Next airing for that show is 03-28 @ 3:00 PM EST. http://www.nationalgeographic.com/channel/ET/weekly/200503271500.html

    For the docu-drama the BBC & Discovery Channel produced, it will be on in the states on the Dicovery Channel 04-10 @ 8:00 PM EST. http://dsc.discovery.com/convergence/supervolcano/supervolcano.html

  • March 16, 2005 at 5:29 am
    Jim says:
    Like or Dislike:
    Thumb up 0
    Thumb down 0

    This is natures version of Super Sizing!

  • March 16, 2005 at 10:04 am
    JakeGoldstein says:
    Like or Dislike:
    Thumb up 0
    Thumb down 0

    Cat adjs still waiting on that Big One to hit California and like todays media stories bigger is better. Afterall if there werent 50 deaths a day in Bushieboys fake neo-con war then the news is boring yada yada yada. All those yellow ribbons on vehicles are laughable.
    Even if millions were killed it wouldnt matter just bring on the Big One so we can get pocket full of money. We trust it will happen long before some bogus super volcano erupts. Put that on par with Bigfoot being found.

  • March 17, 2005 at 12:48 pm
    Turner says:
    Like or Dislike:
    Thumb up 0
    Thumb down 0

    Then we don’t need exclusions. If there are any of us left we aren’t going to be worried about getting an insurance claim covered.

  • March 28, 2005 at 7:11 am
    Hola says:
    Like or Dislike:
    Thumb up 0
    Thumb down 0

    if u think about it how do we know that it happens ever 600,000 years obviously ti didn’t since its been 600,000 years, but its not like earth runs on a egg timer. 600,000 years ago if there was prehistoric man on this planet they were playing with sticks and stones…we have advanced in technology so much that the effect of an explosion like this wouldn’t be as drastic. The western portion of north america would be effected immediatley, but in long term the world would be effected wiht drastic temp. drops, but let our offspring worry about that

  • October 17, 2005 at 11:34 am
    Dino says:
    Like or Dislike:
    Thumb up 0
    Thumb down 0

    The damage caused by American foreign policies and wars against humanity is far more dangerous than this super-fantasy of the BBC!!



Add a Comment

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

*