{"id":25156,"date":"2017-09-03T16:46:10","date_gmt":"2017-09-03T21:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=25156"},"modified":"2017-09-03T16:46:10","modified_gmt":"2017-09-03T21:46:10","slug":"dont-mess-with-yellowstone-supervolcano-geologists-warn-nasa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=25156","title":{"rendered":"“Don’t Mess With Yellowstone Supervolcano” Geologists Warn NASA"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Don’t Mess With Yellowstone Supervolcano” Geologists Warn NASA<\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n
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Two weeks ago, we reported that Brian Wilcox<\/a>, a former member of the NASA Advisory Council on Planetary Defense, had shared a report on what the Space Agency considered one of the greatest natural threats to human civilization: the Yellowstone “supervolcano.”<\/p>\n

Following an article published by BBC about super volcanoes <\/a>last month, a group of NASA researchers got in touch with the media to share a report previously unseen outside the space agency about the threat Yellowstone poses, and what they hypothesize could possibly be done about it.\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u201cI was a member of the NASA Advisory Council on Planetary Defense which studied ways for NASA to defend the planet from asteroids and comets,\u201d explains Brian Wilcox of Nasa\u2019s Jet Propulsion Laboratory <\/a>(JPL) at the California Institute of Technology.<\/p>\n

\u201cI came to the conclusion during that study that the supervolcano threat is substantially greater than the asteroid or comet threat.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Yellowstone currently leaks about 60 to 70% of its heat into the atmosphere through stream water which seeps into the magma chamber through cracks, while the rest of the heat builds up as magma and dissolves into volatile gasses. The heat and pressure will reach the threshold, meaning an explosion is inevitable. When NASA scientists considered the fact that a super volcano\u2019s eruption <\/a>would plunge the earth into a volcanic winter, destroying most sources of food, starvation would then become a real possibility.\u00a0 Food reserves would only last about 74 days<\/a>, according to the UN, after an eruption of a super volcano, like that under Yellowstone.\u00a0 And they have devised a risky plan that could end up blowing up in their faces.\u00a0 Literally.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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