I recently watched a 2 hour documentrary on Yellowstone National Park in the midwest US. As of 2014, scientists have revised their estimate of 2075 by about -25 years, to bring the expected eruption to about 2050. In many ways it has been difficult to tell if Yellowstone is a threat because multiple indicators fluctuated. That changed in 2014 with the defacto=standard release of gases that indicate magma is nearing the surface, indicating that an actual erruption is much closer at hand, and not purely theoretical in any event. Furthermore, the Whitehouse has restricted information on Earthquakes and Gas Emissions by order to the USGS.

This is not a joke. This is very real, and the threat to mankind is real. Expected lifespan immediately following eruption is 5-7 minutes, because the atmosphere will be so poisoned, life will die. This supercedes the solar blackout, material fallout, and all other aspects.

Does anybody have a bonafide, feasible plan, or is this just 'it'? I can see a way to make a shelter for a few people that would last for some time, given several million dollars- you have to have food, air, water, medical, farming (animal storage/care)--- and this must withstand several initial years, let alone the longer period afterwards for revegetation, and any chance of mammalian life to return beyond what you've gathered into the facility.

Anyone's thoughts?

*I meant grab a 'beer', not a 'bear'-- but will it matter?

 

Yellowstone has been predicted to erupt for as long as I can remember.

 

We live our lives on a razor’s edge, surrounded by risks. We can influence only a few of those risks and that’s probably a better use of our time. Eruption of Yellowstone isn’t among those. So hold my bear and watch this!

 

There is literally no place for an Ark to go. The effects will be global.

 

In 2050 I'll be 101 years old. Given the life of wanton dissipation I've lived so far, I doubt I'll last that long.

Yawn.

 

“Wanton dissipation” is a good euphemism for life itself. We burn energy to decrease our own entropy at the expense of the entropy of the universe as a whole. We eventually lose that race.

 

We burn energy to decrease our own entropy at the expense of the entropy of the universe as a whole. We eventually lose that race.

I prefer a less cosmological narrative: "We are born. We party. Then we kick out."

 

I recently watched a 2 hour documentrary on Yellowstone National Park in the midwest US. As of 2014, scientists have revised their estimate of 2075 by about -25 years, to bring the expected eruption to about 2050. In many ways it has been difficult to tell if Yellowstone is a threat because multiple indicators fluctuated. That changed in 2014 with the defacto=standard release of gases that indicate magma is nearing the surface, indicating that an actual erruption is much closer at hand, and not purely theoretical in any event. Furthermore, the Whitehouse has restricted information on Earthquakes and Gas Emissions by order to the USGS.

This is not a joke. This is very real, and the threat to mankind is real. Expected lifespan immediately following eruption is 5-7 minutes, because the atmosphere will be so poisoned, life will die. This supercedes the solar blackout, material fallout, and all other aspects.

Does anybody have a bonafide, feasible plan, or is this just 'it'? I can see a way to make a shelter for a few people that would last for some time, given several million dollars- you have to have food, air, water, medical, farming (animal storage/care)--- and this must withstand several initial years, let alone the longer period afterwards for revegetation, and any chance of mammalian life to return beyond what you've gathered into the facility.

Anyone's thoughts?

*I meant grab a 'beer', not a 'bear'-- but will it matter?

In all seriousness, can you please share with us what your sources are? I know that Yellowstone is a volcano like no other, and have no doubt about how powerful it is, but claiming a "prediction" of an eruption is something entirely new to me.

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I have been living on BC coast for 20 years now and "the Big One" has been coming and/or is overdue set to wipe out the entire west coast of N. America generally destroying all of the major cities. I have moved further north into a more rural mountainous terrain where areas are less populated and ground more stable. I did not move here because of the fear of an earthquake, but because of lower cost of living. Here I can be taken out by an avalanche or a rock slide while driving to the next city. Beats being stuck in traffic.

Life is short, make sure you eat well. I had the most delicious cheesecake this weekend.

 

I had the most delicious cheesecake this weekend.

... and you didn't save a slice for us?

 

... and you didn't save a slice for us?

I know!

 

Does anybody have a bonafide, feasible plan[?]

Yes!

Windmills, solar power, carbon tax, electric vehicles...

Wait, what?

 

Yes!

Windmills, solar power, carbon tax, electric vehicles...

Wait, what?

... and nuclear power... which unfortunately has fallen prey to political histerya...

 

... and nuclear power... which unfortunately has fallen prey to political histerya...

Yes! According to any number of docudramas (as broadcast on the SciFi Channel), a strategically placed nuke is the ultimate solution to almost any impending global calamity.

 

... and nuclear power... which unfortunately has fallen prey to political histerya...

I am affraid (sure bah) that the last Pripyat's major would not agree with you.

 

Worry? It's all attitude. The volcano will emit an unknown compound that will neutralize GW and give us free food and free clean energy forever.