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Is America Headed for Yellowstone Super-Volcano Eruption Catastrophe?

“It would explode with a force a thousand times more powerful than the Mount St Helens eruption in 1980,” the UK’s Daily Mail warns. The world’s largest super-volcano located underneath the United States’ Yellowstone National Park is set to blow.

Is America Headed for Yellowstone Super Volcano Eruption Catastrophe?

Spewing lava far into the sky, a cloud of plant-killing ash would fan out and dump a layer 10ft deep up to 1,000 miles away.

Two-thirds of the U.S. could become uninhabitable as toxic air sweeps through it, grounding thousands of flights and forcing millions to leave their homes.

This is the nightmare that scientists are predicting could happen if the world’s largest super-volcano erupts for the first time in 600,000 years, as it could do in the near future.

Yellowstone National Park’s caldera has erupted three times in the last 2.1 million years and researchers monitoring it say we could be in for another eruption.

Scientists have reportedly watched as the super-volcano situated underneath northwestern Wyoming rose at a record rate from 2004-2008 — an average of three inches every year.  This rate of movement is more than three times greater than ever observed since such measurement records began in 1923.

Since 2008, the rate has slowed significantly,and the U.S. Geological Survey says there is “no evidence that another such cataclysmic eruption will occur at Yellowstone in the foreseeable future.”

But recurrence intervals are neither regular nor predictable and a lack of data has kept geologists from putting any exact date on any potential eruption warning.

When the eruption finally happens it will dwarf the effect of Iceland’s Eyjafjallajökull volcano, which erupted in April last year, causing travel chaos around the world. …

Robert B. Smith, professor of geophysics at the University of Utah, who has led a recent study into the volcano, added: ‘Our best evidence is that the crustal magma chamber is filling with molten rock.

‘But we have no idea how long this process goes on before there either is an eruption or the inflow of molten rock stops and the caldera deflates again’.

The Yellowstone Caldera — or “cooking pot” — sits atop North America’s largest volcanic field.   The most recent large blast from the Caldera happened an estimated 640,000 years ago and the most recent small eruption happened about 70,000 years ago.

Is America Headed for Yellowstone Super Volcano Eruption Catastrophe?

The estimated area of ashfall from the Yellowstone Caldera's last large eruption.

‘Clearly some deep source of magma feeds Yellowstone, and since Yellowstone has erupted in the recent geological past, we know that there is magma at shallower depths too,’ said Dan Dzurisin, a Yellowstone expert with the U.S. Geological Survey at Cascades Volcano Observatory in Washington State.

‘There has to be magma in the crust, or we wouldn’t have all the hydrothermal activity that we have.

‘There is so much heat coming out of Yellowstone right now that if it wasn’t being reheated by magma, the whole system would have gone stone cold since the time of the last eruption 70,000 years ago.’

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  • Major Tom
    Posted on January 25, 2011 at 8:22am

    OK, I just spoke with Glenn… He says we’ll need 3-5 years worth of Food, don’t worry, he’ll sell it to us tonight. He also says we need to reinforce our bunke… I mean, fruit/root cellars, for the explosion. Now as a matter of breathing, we’ll need hundreds of filters for our gas masks and chem suits. Glenn figures at most we’ll need to be underground for 5 years. I’m optimistic. some god , gold, and guns and we should all be fine. This is exactly what the founders wanted for us. Lead on Glenn!

     
    • Bob_R_OathKeeper
      Posted on January 25, 2011 at 8:39am

      You would be food if this ever happens, get in my belly!

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    • abseas
      Posted on January 25, 2011 at 10:53am

      So MAJOR TOM . . . . While you are mocking, why don’t you just go ahead and mock FEMA too? I mean really, how much dumber can you get than preparing for emergencies and catstrophies? Some common sense now and then helps.

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    • Neil Mariner
      Posted on January 25, 2011 at 11:01am

      Major Tom; I hate officers.

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    • Major Tom
      Posted on January 25, 2011 at 11:28am

      Whose mocking? I’m serious. We need to get underground ASAP. Buy food insurance. 5 years worth. At least a hundred air filters for your m40 gas mask. You need this to survive after Yellowstone blows it’s top. Glenn has been warning us. Take heed and take precautions. Guns and ammo will help but remeber, You can’t eat guns!

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    • 338_LM
      Posted on January 25, 2011 at 11:45am

      Major Tom, it is MUCH easier to chastise than to prepare. You’ve made a level-headed decision! Be sure to spread the word to your cohorts.

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    • Juan
      Posted on January 25, 2011 at 1:39pm

      Those of us in the Rocky Mountain West will be roasted and toasted in short order. The rest of you sorry folks will either slowy gag to death or face a long, long period of starvation resulting in death while you cling to your survival gear. Al Gore will expire with the following words on his lips…….”That whole Global Warming thing, never mind”.
      In the end it will only be a cosmic burp and creaton moves on.

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    • mill
      Posted on January 25, 2011 at 4:14pm

      yeah!! underground…the oven.
      All Liberals this way to the caves here in Wyoming..come on over!!! We;ll take care of you. Glenn really does have a point in “preparing”. If a disaster should hit your family it is always wise to be “prepared”. No matter how you want to laugh. Think of the depression and if people had been able to prepare as we can now. Food, shelter are primary. So laugh on, when you’re begging for food one day……
      There is warning when the volcanoes are going happen..it’s not like , blap, “we didn‘t know’. if you get out of the way great, if not great

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    • Ross
      Posted on January 26, 2011 at 7:42am

      You can’t reson with an idiot, Glenn wouldn’t speak to an idiot.

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  • simple thought
    Posted on January 25, 2011 at 8:20am

    could it blow harder than MSNBC….just ask’n???????????

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  • dizzyinthedark
    Posted on January 25, 2011 at 8:19am

    Time to buy real estate on or nearest the equator?

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    • Reasonabiliy
      Posted on January 25, 2011 at 9:27am

      Why don’t we harness that heat and energy in some way to help with energy problems and design it to cool the magna at the same time? Maybe all the money used to build these assinine electric cars our government funds could go to some investigation into the possibility of harnessing free energy.

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    • Xcori8r
      Posted on January 25, 2011 at 12:44pm

      That kind of mitigation is way, way out of scale for any realistic engineering. It’s like trying to figure out how to change the temperature of the Great Lakes with a few thousand soda straws. The caldera may be overdue to blow in geological time, but that just means it was overdue when the pyramids were built and it will be overdue when Zephram Cochrane invents the warp drive.

      It’s also a little presumptuous to think of cooling down the Yellowstone magma chamber. Even if you could, would you then inhibit the movement of the North American tectonic plate and would that then affect activity at the Cascadia, San Andreas and New Madrid fault boundaries? There’s a lot going on there.

      I still think Obama and liberals are more of a cataclysmic threat than Yellowstone is.

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  • Kid Charlemagne
    Posted on January 25, 2011 at 8:18am

    It’s nice to see everyone using what could be a cataclysmic event to justify their politics so early this morning. Being happy that a volcano could destroy california is pretty sick…

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    • Major Tom
      Posted on January 25, 2011 at 8:49am

      Are you new here? These comments are down right sane compared to the daily vitriol that spews from these ‘conservatives’ minds.

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    • Xcori8r
      Posted on January 25, 2011 at 9:32am

      Actually, no one here is concerned about silly little things like super volcanoes, extinction event asteroids, coronal mass ejections, gamma ray bursts or the like. The liberals and socialists will destroy us all before any of that will happen.

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    • ontherocks
      Posted on January 25, 2011 at 9:34am

      Don’t lump all of us Conservatives together, please. Though there are some sensible comments, I am trying to inject some science amidst the hyperbolic comments.

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    • Kid Charlemagne
      Posted on January 25, 2011 at 9:39am

      ha i like trying to see how all sorts of people think – and yes, i surprised there haven’t been any comments about the socialist conspiracy that barack obama and the left have spent decades on….which is ofcourse true and relevant to volcanoes

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    • Kid Charlemagne
      Posted on January 25, 2011 at 9:44am

      Ontherocks – i understand completely, i imagine most of the people here are just like the super left who also are mostly jaded and misinformed – but when you see comments like XCori8or above, its hard to turn a blind eye to that kind of crazy

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    • Xcori8r
      Posted on January 25, 2011 at 11:25am

      Kid
      I got a thousand bucks that says you will wake up one morning to find your retirement accounts are worth 50% less than they were the day before, on account of socialism and Obama’s Fed, and/or some other geopolitical cataclysm before you have to shovel one ounce of Yellowstone caldera ash out your driveway? You game?

      By the way, what if their math on Apophis 2029 is just a teensy, weensy bit wrong?

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    • Kid Charlemagne
      Posted on January 25, 2011 at 12:36pm

      XCoria8tor – i would love to see your logic on that one – socialists and obama are responsible for a crash that was hit before he even took office?!? if you blame one man for your own shortcomings that is the truly sad part and says much more about the fortitude of this country than your claims of socialism

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    • Xcori8r
      Posted on January 26, 2011 at 1:09am

      You cannot refute that the current “crash” began during the reign of Pelosi and the Democrat Congress and that they controlled the budget. You cannot refute that in that time the US government accrued more debt than in the entire previous history of the country. You cannot refute that bastardizing the business of Fannie Mae under the prodding and guidance of Barney Frank and Chris Dodd contributed massively to the situation we are all in now. You cannot refute the bastardizing of the currency that is occurring now. The list goes on.

      I will not exonerate Republicans, but Obama and his socialist army are the current stewards of the progressive decline we are experiencing and they are the owners of the acceleration and transformation.

      Kid – I’ve been railing against the real causes of this insanity for forty years and paid more than my fair share back to the beginning of the failed “Great Society”.

      My inevitable schadenfreude will be bittersweet as I watch my countrymen being defiled like innocents by barbarians in the next catastrophe. And it won’t be from a freaking volcano.

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  • Therightsofbilly
    Posted on January 25, 2011 at 8:17am

    Stupid Yellowstone. What an Ash-hole !

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  • Richio
    Posted on January 25, 2011 at 8:14am

    What else but particulate matter could possibly reduce the light of the sun, the moon and the stars by one third?

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  • BubbaCoop
    Posted on January 25, 2011 at 8:11am

    Isn’t 2/3 of the United States already uninhabitable?
    L.A., San Francisco, Detroit, D.C., Manhattan…

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    • Kid Charlemagne
      Posted on January 25, 2011 at 9:18am

      only if you hate attractive women and good food (not including det. never been)

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  • BQI
    Posted on January 25, 2011 at 8:10am

    I guess we all have to face the idea that a “lot” of bad stuff is happening. My question is are they connected in some way? BQI is putting the finishing touches on it new article called “2012” where we look at all of the various predictions, known and anticipated events in order to see if in fact something or someone is trying to TELL us something. Stay tuned.

    http://www.blackquillandink.com Black Conservative Blog

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  • Ialmostforgot
    Posted on January 25, 2011 at 8:08am

    That picture looks like a baboon’s butt (I tried a$$ butt they didn’t like it)!

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  • gr8photoman
    Posted on January 25, 2011 at 8:08am

    We better not make any changes to Obama-care or this just might happen. Sarah Palin and Glenn Beck should probably be silenced too, just to be on the safe side.

    If it still happens after taking all of those precautions then obviously it‘s Bush’s fault.

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  • Ialmostforgot
    Posted on January 25, 2011 at 8:06am

    That picture looks like a baboon’s ass!

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    • Ex_Masshole
      Posted on January 25, 2011 at 9:44am

      …or Chris Matthews’ face. I guess they’re the same.

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    • Enuff Zenuff
      Posted on January 25, 2011 at 4:26pm

      .
      ROFLMAO about Chris Matthew’s face – Thanks for the hardy laugh!!!

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  • Gonzo
    Posted on January 25, 2011 at 8:04am

    Might be the big one that pushes California in to the sea. Hmmm, that would save the American tax payer another gargantuan bail out.

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  • KwikKarl
    Posted on January 25, 2011 at 8:01am

    Also, reading this story and the FEMA RFI’s for the NEW MADRID FAULT, brought an interesting bible study to mind I read several years ago – America: A Great Crashing Mountain? http://focusonjerusalem.com/america_agreatcrashingmountain.html

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  • The Patriot
    Posted on January 25, 2011 at 7:58am

    geothermal power plants . no wind ,no gas, oil,toxic solar panels just free power. Done right it wouldn’t even be seen. Oh what big business cant do it that way.

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    • ontherocks
      Posted on January 25, 2011 at 9:31am

      Unlike Iceland, most of the suitable (possible) geo-thermal sites are at great distances from large or medium-sized U.S. cities. Geothermal might work on a small, local scale (and I am in favor of carefully-monitored research). I seem to remember lots of taxpayer money being wasted at a geothermal drilling site near Los Alamos, NM, about 30 years ago – with no tangible results.

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  • Helldogger
    Posted on January 25, 2011 at 7:56am

    This would really suck!! It would wipe out all the free states. Maybe that’s the plan. I’m so glad I have faith in God & not scientists.

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  • HeapingCoals
    Posted on January 25, 2011 at 7:45am

    If the Yellowstone super volcano does blow it will more than likely do so right after we give Israel to the Palestinians.

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  • joeliberty
    Posted on January 25, 2011 at 7:45am

    Hey everyone, I am glad the neo-scientists can tell us when this thing last erupted! I can agree with them about how powerful it would be, but these idiots have no idea when this ling last erupted nor can they tell how old it is! We do not have the means and carbon dating only goes back a couple of thousand years and it is not 100% accurate!

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    • lobster
      Posted on January 25, 2011 at 8:48am

      They are clueless. All non-carbon 14 dating is,”What do you read, what do you need?. They’ve been trying to substantiate Darwins lies for years. Check it out, the Great Salt Lake contains 6 billion tons of salt. Next sentence salts are accumulating at a rate of 1 million tons per year. Simple math it “ain’t” an old earth. Incidently the same calculation applies for the Caspian Sea and the Dead Sea.

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    • ontherocks
      Posted on January 25, 2011 at 8:57am

      Geologists and geochronologists do not use Carbon14 for age-dating of igneous rocks. One of the favored isotope/daughter product duos are Potassium40/Argon40. Radiometric age dating is not perfect, the idea is to give us a ballpark idea of the age of the igneous activity.

      The swelling of the ground and the presence of small earthquakes http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsus/Maps/special/Yellowstone.php suggests a possible eruption, but we can’t say when as these large volcanoes have a life-span in the millions of years (2.1 million years for this cluster of 3 calderas, each new one superimposed upon the previous one(s)). It could be 5 years, it could be 50,000. And if it erupts, it might be a small eruption. Only time will tell.

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    • ontherocks
      Posted on January 25, 2011 at 9:12am

      These types of hyperbolic comments are why liberals paint Conservatives as “anti-science“ and all Christians as ”young earthers”. There are other interpretations. Ultimately, we don’t find out the answers until “the great test is over” (when we die).

      Features such as the Great Salt Lake, the Dead Sea, and the Caspian Sea are not terribly old features. Has anyone presented them as examples of evidence for an old earth?

      As stated, radiometric age dates are not the be-all and end-all of geologic age estimates and no human endeavor is perfect. But it gives us a ballpark figure to work with (that may be adjusted as new info comes in or as new interpretations arise).

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    • teachermitch32
      Posted on January 25, 2011 at 9:59am

      Onthe rocks,

      Isotope dating, (carbon,potassium,argon) are based upon presumptions from geological strata dating. And geological strata dating is based upon isotope dating calculations. It’s a circular argument and nobody wins, nobody knows. None of it can be trusted as it can all be adjusted. If the glove don’t fit, you must acquit.

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    • MLOSuper
      Posted on January 26, 2011 at 10:39am

      Radiocarbon dating only is good for 5000 years. As an astronomer, I have taken a few courses in Radiological Physics in which there is the explanation on the exponential decay of radioactive materials. As stated by OntheRocks, you can use different radioactive elements as dating indicators. The elements I have seen the data for are Polonium and Uranium for dating of meteorites and other extraterrestrial rocks. These decay on the order of 100′s of million of years and upwards depending on isotope. Do not discredit the nuclear physicists who have found these relationships in the lab, computer simulations and the universe as a whole. It is not a circular argument.

      As a whole, I trust in God to save us. If He wills us to live through such hardships as a super volcano, he will show us the way to survive. I am not fretting over this.

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  • SND97
    Posted on January 25, 2011 at 7:42am

    Super-Volcanos, Asteriods, Comets, Nova’s, Polar Shift, White Castle Farts, all of these and many, many more are surley coming. Opps…I kinda think Christ will do his thing first..Like GET us OUT of HERE!!! YEAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

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  • Bob
    Posted on January 25, 2011 at 7:32am

    Strikes me as a lot of hot air. Let’s face it, why worry, it is what it is nothing more nothing less and yes it will be Uncle Al’s fault no doubt about it.

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  • raiderglenn
    Posted on January 25, 2011 at 7:25am

    As we speak, Algore is figuring out some way to get tax dollars to stop this new threat….

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  • historyguy48
    Posted on January 25, 2011 at 7:25am

    At least the gave the whole story. I ride my Harley throughout Yellowstone every summer (it is only about 8 hours from Sturgis). Over the last ten years they have closed off several of the tourist areas and have been very worried about an eruption.
    Wether it happens or not is in Gods hands. Lets pray it doesn’t.

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  • emertz8413
    Posted on January 25, 2011 at 7:23am

    There are some things in life you can’t worry about…. a natural disaster is one of them.

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    • JJ Coolay
      Posted on January 25, 2011 at 7:32am

      What joke!

      Emert…. you have it right.
      Can we please stop with the “End of the World” disasters??
      If it happens, it happens. If it doesn’t, well then why worry about it?

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    • Creestof
      Posted on January 25, 2011 at 8:01am

      Here is the real “scruples” question for you. If it blows and destroys the US (3/4ths or all), will we launch our nukes at the last second and wipe out those “peaceful” middle easterners so what remains in the world can live in peace?

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    • Anonymous T. Irrelevant
      Posted on January 25, 2011 at 10:13am

      You’re right, it’s going to happen no matter what man does. It‘s all part of God’s plan.

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    • EgoBrain
      Posted on January 25, 2011 at 10:26am

      Imagine how fertile our east coast soil will be, after this blows.
      My tomatoes will win prizes.

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    • Bigliardi
      Posted on January 25, 2011 at 10:51am

      Very true….Not much we can do about this supervolcano….No way to prevent it, so no need worrying about it….Still…..The caldera of this monster is sixty miles wide….If it erupts, it will mean the end of everything for much of the world….

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    • stephenb.net
      Posted on January 25, 2011 at 1:07pm

      No JJ it’s not a joke. It isn’t anything that I fear or worry about but it is a fascinating geological phenomenon and one that interests me. Earthquakes and plate tectonics are also very interesting if geology is something that interests you.
      The emotional dismissive nature of your comments assume that anyone interested in this science is a doom and gloomer. Nothing could be further from the truth.

      As for the affects on SF in CA, sorry kids but it will survive since the major damage ends in the sierras. Not to say that any place on the earth will be spared as the ash cloud will cover the planet and block the sun and destroy crops world wide. Temperatures will drop and a “nuclear winter” effect will dominate for a decade. Pretty awesome stuff.

      It sounds like something out of Revelation 8 and 9.

      If it happens.tomorrow, cool I‘m ready or if it happens 300 years from now it doesn’t matter. It’s still really interesting geological science.

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  • jedi.kep
    Posted on January 25, 2011 at 7:19am

    The real reason for global warming…

    or

    ..hey? Wasn’t this just a movie?…

    or

    It‘s Palin and Beck’s fault…

    or

    The world is doomed! Doomed!

    or

    At least the Westboro baptists will finally have their hellfire and brimstone…

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    • Mister President
      Posted on January 25, 2011 at 7:51am

      Yeah, and the gays will be laughing from Heaven as the Westboro people burn in hell.

      Mister President  
    • Thumbs Up
      Posted on January 25, 2011 at 1:09pm

      Just make sure it happens after the Super Bowl and before I pay my taxes! lol

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  • Rickfromillinois
    Posted on January 25, 2011 at 7:19am

    If the blows than we’ll have global climate change. Maybe if we all start driving electric cars and the Government passes Obama’s climate bill then it will prevent that from happening. Think green or Yellowstone will blow! We need to get NASA on this.

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    • badswing
      Posted on January 25, 2011 at 9:05am

      its GLOBAL CLIMATE DISRUPTION for God’s sake! get your lexicon together b/c words have meaning. and btw, the rising land mass is significant. how significant is the question. and for those living in buffalo: you think this eruption wouldn’t effect you?

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    • Old Truckers
      Posted on January 25, 2011 at 11:06am

      This is serious folks. Remember how people were camping on Mount St. Helens in 1980?
      Old residents refused to leave their homes and were killed.
      Many people excused away the warnings and they were caught in the big eruption.
      Foolish people tend to ignore clear warnings.

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    • CatB
      Posted on January 25, 2011 at 1:10pm

      LOL .. Rick … good use of satire!

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    • Enuff Zenuff
      Posted on January 25, 2011 at 4:22pm

      .
      @ old trucker
      When Yellowstone blows, it’s going to make Mt. St. Helens look like a bursting zit on a mosquito’s butt. Ain’t no one going to escape the effects. The lucky ones will die relatively quickly like in Pompeii, most will die more slowly as the dust blocks out the sun for years and causes mass starvation… but a few might survive… maybe. If you’ve ever read about the giant meteor 65 million years ago that likely wiped out the dinosaurs – I think Yellowstone will be more comparable to that than to any previous volcano mankind has ever experienced in human history.

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    • Rainman
      Posted on January 25, 2011 at 8:35pm

      Agree, remember they “Danny Glover” said that Global Warming caused the horrific Haitian Earthquake last year! Well, I’m sorry, aren’t celebrities and musicians the all knowing spokespersons for the new Socialist America? Well? Ha!

      Hey wing-nuts, more Sarcasm …. LOL!

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    • RobertCA
      Posted on January 25, 2011 at 10:32pm

      Yellowstone is a great place to see , if you never been there yet , go see it , you won’t regret it .

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  • quarter horseman
    Posted on January 25, 2011 at 7:18am

    I’m sure global warming will have something to do with this.

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    • JJ Coolay
      Posted on January 25, 2011 at 7:34am

      “Two-thirds of the U.S. could become uninhabitable”

      Ok this quote is just absurd. Talk abaout a scare tactic.

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    • chazman
      Posted on January 25, 2011 at 7:34am

      Oooo! Most of Commie California would be covered!!! Oooo! YEA!!!

       
    • historyguy48
      Posted on January 25, 2011 at 7:40am

      jj coolay: well if it actually would happen, the results would devestate the entire northern hemisphere. It really is in Gods hands.
      Maybe we could help God though, we could broadcast the complete speeches of King Obama the 1st 24 hours a day. If we did that, the volcano would probably fall asleep again.

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    • quarter horseman
      Posted on January 25, 2011 at 7:44am

      I was being sarcastic! no scare tactic here.

      Yes agree (Most of Commie California would be covered!!! Oooo! YEA!!)

      quarter horseman  
    • historyguy48
      Posted on January 25, 2011 at 7:48am

      Chazman: the bad news is that the prevailing winds go from west to east. The “good” news is that if a major eruption happens, it wouldn’t matter. The real bad new is, we wouldn’t care, we would be dead before they would.
      Maybe Obama could spread his hands over the eruption and use his “magic” power to stop it. Probably wouldn’t work, but I really hate the thought of our political masters hiding in bomb proof hiding places while the rest of us die.

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    • Mister President
      Posted on January 25, 2011 at 7:49am

      It’s not really a scare tactic. It’s pretty true. The ash would completely block the sun and cover the land, rendering cars and anything that required air unusable. Suffocating people, etc. The ash cloud might makes its way around the planet.

      “The force of a supervolcanic eruption at Yellowstone would be the equivalent of 1,000 Hiroshima bombs exploding every second.” That’s catastrophic beyond imagination.

      http://www.g-kexoticfarms.com/volcano.html

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    • Creestof
      Posted on January 25, 2011 at 7:58am

      Well, all the illegals will start chanting “There’s no place like home! There’s no place like home!”

       
    • VerySeniorCitizen
      Posted on January 25, 2011 at 8:02am

      JJ COOLAY, you obviously never bother to watch Discovery or National Geographic channels. It wouldn’t simply be this continent that would be decimated – it would be the better part of the world. Did you know that Yellowstone is the BIGGEST volcanic area in the world?? Unfortunately Glenn’s gold, seeds and food pantry wouldn’t help any of us if this thing ever decides to blow. Talk about ARMAGEDDON. Yellowstone would be the epitome of it.

       
    • Polwatcher
      Posted on January 25, 2011 at 8:03am

      Lets see here….if we live through the world financial collapse, Irans nukes, encroaching Muslim demographics, and the liberal welfare state, then we hace to worry about Yellowstone blowing up in our face. Please note that I did NOT include global warming… simply because it is not believable.

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    • mimitweetin
      Posted on January 25, 2011 at 8:05am

      JJ Do your homework. That’s all I can say, this has nothing to do with scare tactics. Look at the history of Yellowstone.

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    • cheezwhiz
      Posted on January 25, 2011 at 8:06am

      So Robert B. Smith, professor of geophysics at the University of Utah,
      looking forward to millions of dollars in grants, are we ?

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    • grandmaof5
      Posted on January 25, 2011 at 8:18am

      I guess that means it’s 50/50. “might”, “could” “neither regular or predictable”, what is the point of this. I am going to buy a lottery ticket and I “might” win, “could” win, but it’s “not predictable”. Maybe the government is looking to take over all this land, just in case, for the sake of saving lives, not that they care about people, only minnows.

       
    • rightwingheroes
      Posted on January 25, 2011 at 8:24am

      I live in Buffalo, good luck lol

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    • USAPLISKENXI
      Posted on January 25, 2011 at 8:26am

      When I was 20 (1971) they said this was just around the corner so they closed
      most of the park.
      Like that would matter turns out it was to get the private businesses out of the park.
      To make it off limits to all except foot traffic – got to watch the other hand folks.

      BESIDES BUSH DID IT LOL

      USAPLISKENXI  
    • cemerius
      Posted on January 25, 2011 at 8:27am

      ahhh but ALL of Texas would eb covered too!!!…..and I see the “brown circle” just barely misses san francisco!!! good thing powerful volcanoes may bring the MOAEq (Mother of All Earthquakes too)….

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    • xredcoat
      Posted on January 25, 2011 at 8:30am

      @Chazman – Unfortunately it misses Hollywood, Los Angeles, Malibu, Pacific Palisades, the Land of Pelosi (Bay Area) and Gov. Moonbeam. Although it could wipe out the majority of remnant conservative precincts. So much for investing in that ocean-front property in Arizona.

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    • Hoosier Daddy
      Posted on January 25, 2011 at 8:37am

      You think the world hates us now…
      Wait until the worldwide nuclear winter caused by this eruption occurs. Whatever is left of us will not be able to show our faces anywhere./s

      Hoosier Daddy  
    • GEW
      Posted on January 25, 2011 at 8:39am

      Looks like ole mother nature might teach us all a lesson or two…of course the sun’s awakening might get things going before she blows. there’s an old saying “you best have all your ducks in order” and my favorite..”no body promised you a rose garden.”

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    • KICKILLEGALSOUT
      Posted on January 25, 2011 at 8:46am

      Now this is what you call fear mongering. Yes, the last small eruption was 70000 years ago, so you better watch out! What is that like a one in a trillion chance of another volcano eruption. You could easily die in a car accident in your day to day business.

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    • Marcobob69
      Posted on January 25, 2011 at 8:53am

      AL GORE, PLEASE SAVE US!!! That windbag would try and make millions of $$$ off of that, too!!!

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    • Bob Holland
      Posted on January 25, 2011 at 8:56am

      Between this and the mega tsunami from the unstable slat in the Canary Islands we can draw a lot reasons to have some sort of fear. I’m not fretting it.

      Me I’m not to concerned about either, and if I was it would more likely be the tsunami but even I hardly spend anytime thinking about that. I personally don’t think any of these things will happen and if it does it would be during the end times before the Lord returns. I know the scriptures mention these things will clearly happen. But if our generation is as correct about the coming of Christ in our day, as every other generation who has believed it in the past. Then we will be O.K. And if these things happen then look to the east. The man will be coming soon.

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    • edcoil
      Posted on January 25, 2011 at 9:04am

      “Yellowstone National Park is set to blow.”

      Really. Wanna bet?

      Our only wish is your check would bounce and we would never have to read this crap again.

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    • Stuck_in_CA
      Posted on January 25, 2011 at 9:14am

      @chazman
      ‘Oooo! Most of Commie California would be covered!!! Oooo! YEA!!!’

      You hurt my feelings. :-)

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    • GhostOfJefferson
      Posted on January 25, 2011 at 9:18am

      I’ve heard so many times how the world will end, and the various ways it will end, I’ve started to see why people openly mock folks who wear “the end of the world is nigh” sandwich boards on the street.

      You can’t live your life in fear of remote “maybe”, “could”, “any time now” possibilities. Real dangers exist, but things like volcanoes exploding or meteorites smacking into us, while possible and historically verified, are matters out of our hands and things we cannot even hope to accurately predict. I’d rather live life to the fullest and get on with it, than sit around planning for 2/3 of the U.S. to be covered in volcanic soot.

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    • EgoBrain
      Posted on January 25, 2011 at 9:21am

      Whew.
      I’m out of the fallout range.

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    • Disabledvet
      Posted on January 25, 2011 at 9:28am

      Did Bush, Palin and Beck do this too.
      I think it is a scare tactic being used to try and drive the prices of houses up on the east cost.

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    • chazman
      Posted on January 25, 2011 at 9:46am

      I use to live in Glendale, CA in the early eighties. I worked for Walt Disney Productions in Blurbank, and while there I saw the San Gabriel mountains burn. Earthquakes on a weekly basis, damn coyotes everywhere! It was madness, I tell ya! And now look at it … California has flowed right down the Liberal Marxist toilet! And why? Too many Liberals, that’s why! I went back in 1998 and I didn’t recognize it. I will never go back. If you live there, get out quick!

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    • JCoolman
      Posted on January 25, 2011 at 9:50am

      No need to worry, “Old Faithful” lets out the building pressure once every hour.

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    • Decade of Greed
      Posted on January 25, 2011 at 9:59am

      Don’t be stupid. Global warming has nothing to do with this. A catastrophe this big could only be the work Sarah Palin.

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    • JCoolman
      Posted on January 25, 2011 at 10:00am

      The Discovery Channel (as well as most liberal media) is on a rotating schedule of scary, world-ending, Armageddon scenarios. Dont worry, next week, there will be something different.

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    • Anonymous T. Irrelevant
      Posted on January 25, 2011 at 10:07am

      Setting up for the end of days. California will get the superstorm, with the 10 feet of water. The Yellowstone caldera will erupt at one point (God’s will) and turn the moon blood red. The earth will be a third darker at one point and at another there will be total darkness. Read Revelations.
      Read the “Left Behind” series by LaHaye and Jenkins. It walks through the end times in story fashion. It will take 3-5 years for the final end.

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    • Independent Tess
      Posted on January 25, 2011 at 10:12am

      This scenario has fascinated me since first visiting Yellowstone 30 years ago (yes, we knew about it then). The caldera is easily visible when you stand on the edge and look. The land is tilting as parts of it rise and the lake is slowly sliding toward the lower portions.
      Amazing!!

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    • taskmaster78
      Posted on January 25, 2011 at 10:19am

      quarter horseman, I believe it would be best to think like the warped radical tree huggers’. What’s going on is we angered the volcano god, and mother earth is in a cycle, you know PMS!!!!!

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    • Ser Scot
      Posted on January 25, 2011 at 10:33am

      JJ Coolay,

      No, it’s not a scare tactic. The eruption of a supervolcano would be a very serious threat to human civilization as we know it. Thankfully, they erupt very very rarely.

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    • MOVETERAN
      Posted on January 25, 2011 at 10:43am

      What is a catastophe?

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    • HairRazor
      Posted on January 25, 2011 at 10:51am

      CREESTOF.. now that was funny. (press one for spanish)

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    • jburke4
      Posted on January 25, 2011 at 10:52am

      It is George Bush’s fault! Also Glenn Beck for his hatred for all things outdoors and nature.

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    • Love Bandit Bestid
      Posted on January 25, 2011 at 10:54am

      so, if we nuke it, will that just make is fizzle, or set it off ?

      When in doubt, NUKE IT.

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    • TexasCommonSense
      Posted on January 25, 2011 at 10:58am

      MOVETERAN, President Obama is our biggest “catastrophe”.

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    • Jeff
      Posted on January 25, 2011 at 11:21am

      It’ll be George W. Bush’s fault…

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    • OB1
      Posted on January 25, 2011 at 11:22am

      Well, it seems to me we should build the worlds largest GEO-THERMAL turbine in Wyoming and provide FREE electric power to all Americans.

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    • MOVETERAN
      Posted on January 25, 2011 at 11:23am

      I don’t argue about our biggest catastrophe being Obama but what is a castastophe? Or did eveybody miss the fact that there is no “R” in that word on the title?

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    • infidelamerican
      Posted on January 25, 2011 at 11:24am

      It‘s probably Bush’s fault

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    • oldoldtimer
      Posted on January 25, 2011 at 11:32am

      It seems I heard many of the same naysayer comments right before Mt St Helens blew its top. With Yellowstone it is not a matter of if but of when. Any alignmet of planets might generate enough of a gravitational field to cause the eruption. My chosen date is Dec 21, 2012. Caused by the reelection of Obama.

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    • GUT_CHECK
      Posted on January 25, 2011 at 11:36am

      i can see it now, rahm immanuels grin as he declares….
      “let no crisis go to waste, raise the price of admission to yellowstone while we still can”
      ticket pirces triple…

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    • stephenb.net
      Posted on January 25, 2011 at 11:40am

      JJ: I have been aware of this Caldera for more than ten years and have read about geological evidence of it’s last eruption which shows that rock and ash from this volcano were found as far away as Missouri. If the area is covered in 10 feet of ash how would you expect it to be livable conditions. This isn‘t a scare tactic it’s reality. The timing of this story is questionable however because I have not seen any recent changes to this caldera that would make the story topical but this is a very real scenario. Did you know that the lake at Yellowstone is tilting causing what was once dry land to be submerged by water due to the lava build up beneath it? It is really interesting stuff.

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    • Bermuda Onion
      Posted on January 25, 2011 at 11:41am

      My thoughts exactly. But look on the bright side it looks like California may be obliterated so, no more San Francisco or any left coast moon battery. Next, maybe New York, New England.

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    • TexasCommonSense
      Posted on January 25, 2011 at 11:43am

      oldoldtimer, or his lame-duck session, when he still wields the power of the Executive branch, but knows his days are numbered. You think the Mark Rich pardon was bad; I wonder what Obama will do.

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    • Gobstobber
      Posted on January 25, 2011 at 11:49am

      This IS global warming, but the natural kind. I‘m sure it’s nowhere near the amount put out by man’s activities. Hey! I go to the new NASA kid’s website to find out.

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    • YouMayFireWhenReady
      Posted on January 25, 2011 at 12:02pm

      Quarter Horseman….somehow or other this will be blamed on George W. Bush because HE caused Global Warming. ;-)

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    • anutter
      Posted on January 25, 2011 at 12:20pm

      No, all those California libby nuts will all move out here…Wait I’m from Flint..which is full of…libby nuts.

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    • Bluestraveler
      Posted on January 25, 2011 at 12:33pm

      There‘s nothing Global Warming can’t do.

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    • paperpushermj
      Posted on January 25, 2011 at 12:33pm

      Don’t you just hate it ……….when things like that happen

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    • Anthony
      Posted on January 25, 2011 at 12:44pm

      Mister President wrote …..

      ““The force of a supervolcanic eruption at Yellowstone would be the equivalent of 1,000 Hiroshima bombs exploding every second.” That’s catastrophic beyond imagination.”

      Bombs exploding create a downward force against an object, the earth, and a subsequent shockwave. With a volcano erupting there’s got to be some thrust involved. Maybe this eruption would be equivalent to a course correction a space vehicle would make using thrusters or some other means of attitude adjustment.

      Just a thought.

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    • FatherOf2FromNJ
      Posted on January 25, 2011 at 12:55pm

      not global warming, I blame Palin and Glenn I am sure their heated rhetoric is keeping the magma flowing

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    • CatB
      Posted on January 25, 2011 at 12:59pm

      LOL .. well at least for ONCE it isn’t going to wipe me out! At least on the map though I don’t think anywhere would be “pleasant” ….. but ALGORE always had me underwater! IN TWO HOUSES one north and one south.

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    • AmericanSoldier
      Posted on January 25, 2011 at 1:03pm

      Looks like Tennessee is good so I’m good!

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    • edcoil
      Posted on January 25, 2011 at 1:16pm

      Anyone see my chicken little logon id?

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    • 1776Federalist
      Posted on January 25, 2011 at 1:21pm

      I think a catastophe is some sort of punctuation that uses a cat. ; )

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    • dawnholio1971
      Posted on January 25, 2011 at 1:41pm

      it‘s George Bush’s fault.

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    • tweaker
      Posted on January 25, 2011 at 1:45pm

      This is not global warmings fault.. It’s Sarah Palin !! She’s causing it to explode and destroy the world as we know it! OMG run for your lives…. AHAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!

      LOL Wonder why the dirt people have come up with this yet, blaming it on Sarah. LOL

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    • so broke
      Posted on January 25, 2011 at 1:47pm

      Hopefully this just might expedite the BIG earthquake causing Cali*porn*ia to drop off into the ocean.

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    • Spiritk9
      Posted on January 25, 2011 at 1:53pm

      You have to keep in mind that “relatively soon” in geological terms could be more time than our country or even human civilization has covered. Humans are a blip compared to the last time this thing erupted. I think there is more danger of CA being shaken to bits and 1/3 of it sliding into the Pacific than the Yellowstone caldera going off in the next 200 years.

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    • datboi448
      Posted on January 25, 2011 at 1:54pm

      Wait a second, I thought volcanoes were “clean” and had very little impact on the climate. Seems like science is starting to blow with the wind these days.

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    • MOVETERAN
      Posted on January 25, 2011 at 1:54pm

      It appears that someone fixed it and we are back to having catastrophes again. Though ya I am sure it is all the rights fault and Bush/Palin/Beck conspiracy to take control of the world.

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    • El Paco
      Posted on January 25, 2011 at 1:54pm

      Well, my area of California would be spared!!

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    • Deuteronomy22
      Posted on January 25, 2011 at 2:04pm

      quarter horseman
      Posted on January 25, 2011 at 7:44am
      I was being sarcastic! no scare tactic here.
      Yes agree (Most of Commie California would be covered!!! Oooo! YEA!!)——————————————–

      Except for the coastal areas, LA, San Francisco, Berkley, where everyone lives. Of course Satan’s right hand man, Dick Cheney’s state would be under 10 feet of ash. What’s left of it that is and Texas would be completely covered. Oooo! Yeah!!

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    • realchange
      Posted on January 25, 2011 at 2:04pm

      Oh no the super eruption is going to destroy must of the Red (republican) states, so be warned progressives stay away.

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    • hickoryrat
      Posted on January 25, 2011 at 2:17pm

      NEWS FLASH !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

      Everybody dies !!!!!!!!!!!!!! One way or another. Better than being starved to death as a slsve.

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    • GONESURFING
      Posted on January 25, 2011 at 2:23pm

      It’s in Gods hands, hope it doesn’t happen soon.

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    • Lt_Taz
      Posted on January 25, 2011 at 2:40pm

      I would have to agree with you Quarter Horseman, actually this sounds as though it just may be a major source of Global Warming. We should probably get a comment from the atmospheric “Mental Midgets” of NASA and let’s not forget the inventor of the Internet, Al Gore, what a “Dolt”.

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    • click4cheapandeasyweb
      Posted on January 25, 2011 at 3:23pm

      JJ Coolay
      Posted on January 25, 2011 at 7:34am
      “Two-thirds of the U.S. could become uninhabitable”

      Ok this quote is just absurd. Talk abaout a scare tactic.

      ————–

      LL COOLAY, as a amateur geologist I have followed the studies at the Yellowstone Caldera for the last 15 years and everything you read on this post is for real. Yes, its scary, but its true.

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    • mill
      Posted on January 25, 2011 at 3:53pm

      I want it relocated to the NORTHEAST NOW !!!…a lot of the good guys would be effected if it blows

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    • mebrwb
      Posted on January 25, 2011 at 3:57pm

      Of course it will ….;o)

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    • Enuff Zenuff
      Posted on January 25, 2011 at 4:10pm

      Once the real scientists have predicted the exact date of the explosion, do they plan to call for a worlwide conference of all the Man-made Global Warming junk-science alarmists – featuring Al Gore and the Hollywood elitists – to be held in Yellowstone Park on that date? The best part is that the mainstream media would show up to cover it!

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    • P C BE DAMNED
      Posted on January 25, 2011 at 4:18pm

      While we are playing with what ifs. What if General Lee had tanks?

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    • What-A-Joke
      Posted on January 25, 2011 at 4:21pm

      Well now, how can they USE this to their advantage?
      This will absolutly require a government panel to investigate at great expense to the tax payers. New laws and more rules and regulations at the expense of the tax payer. Don’t worry though, big brother has your back, don’t be scared. They will save us all. After all, THEY are the smart ones.

      Maybe……… some things are just OUT OF OUR HANDS?

      http://www.clubseabreeze.net/TimPhillips

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    • P C BE DAMNED
      Posted on January 25, 2011 at 4:24pm

      Scientific researchers are always trying to come up with something to call attention to their particular area of expertise as this is a certain way to bring in your dollars to their pockets. How can we possible survive without them. You know like a giant asteroid flying towards Earth. How about perhaps a giant sunami. Or a giant meltdown of the Polar regions.Maybe giant ants. You get the picture. I do. I have got so I disbelieve almost everything. And believe just what I want to.

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    • Your Name Here
      Posted on January 25, 2011 at 5:44pm

      “Two-thirds of the U.S. could become uninhabitable”

      Are we talking about the volcano or Obama’s policies causing 2/3 of the US to be uninhabitable.

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    • My Sacred Honor
      Posted on January 25, 2011 at 6:10pm

      @JJ Coolay
      Ok, your silly statements are becoming worse and worse. Is this the first time you have ever heard this story, because I have known about it for years. This whole thing is VERY true, and SHOULD scare you. I saw the movie “2012” and thought it was great cinema and nothing else except for one part. Where Yellowstone explodes. This is fairly accurate of what will happen if she blows like she did 640,000 years ago, except MUCH faster and MUCH more destructive. It has been stated by geologists that a 60 mile radius from where the edge of the caldera explodes will be vaporized faster than if a modern nuclear warhead were detonated in the same place. The ammount of ash spewed into the atmosphere will cover the entire planet for at least two years, killing ALL vegitation, which then in turn kills 95% of the animals, leaving humans….well, screwed.
      You do realize that evidence shows that as few as 10,000 years ago there were fewer than 9,000 humans on the earth due to the ice age that was occuring at the time?
      Maybe instead of trying to be the first idiot responder to the first poster, you should concentrate on getting your facts right and posting something intellegent IF you are actually able to find any evidence that this story is nothing more than “scare tactic”

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    • My Sacred Honor
      Posted on January 25, 2011 at 6:15pm

      @GEW
      My favorite saying is from my Grampa, paraphrasing here…”You ‘eff’ with the bull, boy, you get the horns”
      Now let’s just say God was “the bull” and yellowstone was the horns…..

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    • My Sacred Honor
      Posted on January 25, 2011 at 6:29pm

      @P C BE DAMNED
      And what about giant robots breaking in and stealing our seniors’ medication! Sam Waterston said it can happen!

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    • Ookspay
      Posted on January 25, 2011 at 7:42pm

      All that ash would do nicely to offset the effects of global warming. What God wants, God gets, God help us all.

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    • Jim S
      Posted on January 25, 2011 at 7:51pm

      What’s with a story at least 5 years old. Nat Geo has a full hour on this that has been on shown for years. Geezzz…Obama wins !!!…The Blaze the green web site, we recycle old news into new :)..C’om guys…stop with the filler.

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    • Rainman
      Posted on January 25, 2011 at 8:19pm

      Sarcasm Noted Sir Quarter Horseman : ), But for the nay-sayers

      Yeah, Global Warming from the inside out on a Biblical Scale! Talking Nuclear style winter that will devastate the Human population worldwide. That will be Global Warming on steroids followed by cooling that could possibly rival the last ice age! Sure, a lot of OMG we are all gonna die scare tactics, but there is a lot of research on this and a lot of evidence to suggest the the Yellowstone Caldera is actually over-due to blow! So the question for the real critics? Do you bury your head in the sand with your kool-aid and say boo its all B.S.? Or do you hope for the best yet prepare for the worst? Choice is yours, I know where I’ll be!

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    • sportyk
      Posted on January 25, 2011 at 8:36pm

      Since I live in Wyoming…..I will just stay in my house and eat all the food I have hoarded…….We hear this every year……

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    • DisillusionedDaily
      Posted on January 25, 2011 at 8:41pm

      @ jjcoolay

      When the supervolcano Krakatoa erupted in the 1800′s, the suspended ash cooled the earth causing snows in summertime across the northern hemisphere and disrupted weather patterns in both hemispheres. It caused famine and hardship for over two years. It is not a scare tactic. When Yellowstone goes up again it will easily become the greatest tragedy in recorded history. Krakatoa was an island and the physical destruction was limited to Indonesia. Yellowstone is in the western US and the destruction will make Krakatoa look like Mount St. Helens in comparision.

      @ Mill
      There are not always warnings. Most of the time there is some advance activity, but Vesuvius took out Pompeii without warning.

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    • DSN397
      Posted on January 25, 2011 at 9:47pm

      I‘m leaning more toward it’s just another thing Bush left Obama

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    • independentvoteril
      Posted on January 26, 2011 at 12:04am

      wonder how much ash could go NORTH with the right winds..??? No one figured out what would happen with different wind conditions.. well they have been talking about this for last 50 years.. this may be the ONLY time I am happy to be in IL…

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    • ishka4me
      Posted on January 26, 2011 at 1:13am

      please?

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    • TerminalLance
      Posted on January 26, 2011 at 3:29am

      I would say it‘s Bush’s fault first, but yes, then global warming would be a close second, followed by the vast, right-wing conspiracy, the tea party, and racists. I suppose though, that I could just say racists and that would cover everything.

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    • butch248
      Posted on January 26, 2011 at 3:44am

      I like CHAZMAN’S comment on Commie Califorification!

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    • FreedomSynchro
      Posted on January 26, 2011 at 3:51am

      If you will all just send $250 a month to the UN, the geniuses at the IPCC will jump on this whole “there’s lava inside the planet” problem right after they get that new planetary thermostat installed.

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    • youguysrfingmorons
      Posted on January 26, 2011 at 3:38pm

      really lol. Yellowstone is a giant volcano. It done exploded before. Thats why its a vally and theres hot springs and stuff. It’s being heated up by lava, underneath you feet. It only goes off every several tens of millions of years so yea it could happen someday but probably not and its not something we can really worry about untill it happens because this would be a disaster the likes of which we cannot prepare for.

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  • IntrepidSI
    Posted on January 25, 2011 at 8:55am

    I know George Lucas says the world will end next year. Hey George – If your reading this, I bet you a billion dollars it won’t!

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  • ClaytonDM
    Posted on January 25, 2011 at 11:34am

    @IntrepidSI

    Go bigger. Bet him the rights to Star Wars!

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