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Originally Posted by Harmon
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So, in the interests of giving the Apocalyptic thinkers something more worthy of their concern, let me offer the Yellowstone Supervolcano. Yes, my friends, there really is a gigantic volcano under Yellowstone National Park, and it could blow up at any time with catastrophic effects, including a global winter that would dwarf the claimed effects of AGW. I'm not making this up:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellowstone_Caldera
"The upward movement of the Yellowstone caldera floor—almost 3 inches (7 centimeters) each year for the past three years—is more than three times greater than ever observed since such measurements began in 1923.[16] From mid-Summer 2004 through mid-Summer 2008, the land surface within the caldera has moved upwards, as much as 8 inches at the White Lake GPS station.[17]"
The Geologic Survey says that there's no immediate threat in "the foreseable future," but admits that they can't predict the next eruption. There will, however, be such an eruption, just as there will at some point be earthquakes along the San Andreas Fault. Obviously what we need here is a massive federal government intervention to move everyone located in the Midwest, from the Rockies to the Mississippi, from Canada to the Rio Grande, out of the zone of danger. We probably ought to move people out of California, too, except that...well...who would take them? 
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Yes. One of the episodes of "How the Earth was Made" is on Yellowstone. I just happened to watch it again last night. There is evidence that it erupts approximately every 600,000 years or so and it's been 650,000 since the last one.
Run for your lives!!!
