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packman

(16,296 posts) Fri May 4, 2018, 10:59 AM May 2018

The death of Older Ice - Ice thinning in the Artic

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The death of Older Ice - Ice thinning in the Artic (Original Post) packman May 2018 OP

Just one aspect of global worming. Look at Volcanoes next. infullview May 2018 #1

Fortunately, I live nearby, so if the Yellowstone Caldera goes, PatrickforO May 2018 #2

infullview

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1. Just one aspect of global worming. Look at Volcanoes next.

Reply to packman (Original post)

Fri May 4, 2018, 11:39 AM

May 2018

Scientific America has had several articles about the effect of warming heating up underground magma flows and making more active volcanoes. We have a giant volcanic caldera in Yellowstone. If it becomes active and explodes we will have a mass extinction event and a new ice age to deal with.

PatrickforO

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2. Fortunately, I live nearby, so if the Yellowstone Caldera goes,

Reply to infullview (Reply #1)

Fri May 4, 2018, 10:18 PM

May 2018

I'll probably be in the first wave of dead people.

Which in light of the hellish conditions such an even would inflict on the entire world, isn't a completely bad thing.

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