?... when Yellowstone blows up? (or another super volcano)

[SA Friday]

If a super volcano goes off, it's a game ender. Excessive amounts of carbon dioxide gas and hydrogen sulfide a couple years later from certain bacterias stimulated from the CO2 will one, choke off the O2 users (that's all the animals and most of the plants) and then superheat the atmosphere. There is simply no way to predict which one of the super volcanoes will go and when they will do it, and any survival will be determined by chance. One cannot plan for this type of crisis. It's too random and too global. If it's Yellowstone, we are all toast anyway. We are too close.

Krakatoa's (SP) last eruption put the entire globe in a depressed temperature state for years and the ash blocked what little solar radiation could get through. Crops all around the globe failed, starvation was moderately systemic everywhere. That was just a regular volcano, albeit huge.

[ghettodub]

If a super volcano goes off, it's a game ender. Excessive amounts of carbon dioxide gas and hydrogen sulfide a couple years later from certain bacterias stimulated from the CO2 will one, choke off the O2 users (that's all the animals and most of the plants) and then superheat the atmosphere. There is simply no way to predict which one of the super volcanoes will go and when they will do it, and any survival will be determined by chance. One cannot plan for this type of crisis. It's too random and too global. If it's Yellowstone, we are all toast anyway. We are too close.

Krakatoa's (SP) last eruption put the entire globe in a depressed temperature state for years and the ash blocked what little solar radiation could get through. Crops all around the globe failed, starvation was moderately systemic everywhere. That was just a regular volcano, albeit huge.

^this pretty much covers it. We'd be over with.

[Irving]

But isn't there some way to subsidize our way out of this problem?

[Big Wall]

But isn't there some way to subsidize our way out of this problem?

Not after Bush screwed everything up.