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|    clams casino to JTEM    |
|    Re: Reading 819-1a (archive)    |
|    15 Dec 24 23:06:48    |
      XPost: alt.home.repair, rec.food.cooking, alt.global-warming       XPost: fl.general       From: cc@invalid.cc              On 12/15/2024 3:14 PM, JTEM wrote:       > On 12/15/24 3:15 PM, Bob F wrote:       >       >> "Human activities emit 60 or more times the amount of carbon dioxide       >> released by volcanoes each year.       >       > We're *Way* overdue for a super volcanic eruption, as there hasn't       > been one in the entirety of the Holocene.       >       > Many are active right now, including Yellowstone. When that explodes,       > and it will (it's a "When?" and not an "If?") we're speaking of the       > energy equivalent to 100,000 nuclear weapons, and that's a conservative       > estimate. When Toba exploded over 70,000 years ago it was roughly 2.5x       > larger.       >       > Toba is also active right now.       >       > The massive Krakatoa eruption in the late 1800s was roughly 1/50th       > Yellowstone, btw.       >       > What I'm saying is that you are a textbook example of scale. You're       > looking at today, when "Climate" and what is normal needs thousands       > if not tens of thousands of years to determine what is "Normal."       >       > Human will die in the cold. A super volcano (caldera) will explode       > and this will touch off a glacial period -- what you think of as an       > "Ice Age." If all goes well, the northern hemisphere will be fully       > recovered in 1000 to 1400 years.       >       >       >       Solar cycle 26 is a cold bitch, and she's a comin'!              --- SoupGate-DOS v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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