re: Scientists worried Yellowstone may blow in the not too distant future

First they say this...

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they conclude is likely to go off within the next 80 years.

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Then they say this...

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The chance of such as eruption happening at one of the major volcanoes within 80 years is put at five to ten per cent by the experts.

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5-10% is "likely"? And that's not even for Yellowstone, that's "one of the major volcanoes", so they are including the chances of any other "major volcano" erupting as well.

What a moron who wrote that article.

And even if you get beyond the 5-10% being "likely" thing, even if they said it was 70% likely that Yellowstone itself would erupt, I seriously doubt that a super volcano that erupts on a cycle of ~650,000-700,000 years can be accurately predicted to within 80 years by today's scientists. They'd be lucky to get within 80,000 years, much less 80.

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And even if you get beyond the 5-10% being "likely" thing, even if they said it was 70%, I seriously doubt that a super volcano that erupts on a cycle of ~650,000-700,000 years can be accurately predicted to within 80 years by today's scientists.

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It can't be. This is a click bait article on a tabloid site. Not sure why it was posted here

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Next ice age follows. Maybe mini ice age.

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that sure as hell would make all the work to control the climate a total waste!!

Nice source, OP

I do wonder whether we can develop the technology to avert such a disaster or at least mitigate it

I was at the Yellowstone visitor/learning center a couple of years back and overheard a mother explaining to her children how global warming will cause the volcanos under the park to blow, and likely blow very soon.

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Fracking is likely to blame.

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Probably not, but fracking enhances the possibility of a cataclysmic volcanic eruption.

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Probably not, but fracking enhances the possibility of a cataclysmic volcanic eruption.

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Wait... what?

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That's a tabloid site mom jeans. Start a thread when a serious news outlet is reporting on this

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Yellowstone comes up in every geology thread. You don't need a news article to confirm what's going on. Scientist have discovered that the ground in Yellowstone is 74cm higher than in was in 1923 - indicating a massive swelling underneath the park. The reservoir is filling with magma at an alarming rate. The volcano erupts with a near-clockwork cycle of every 600,000 years. The last eruption was more than 640,000 years ago - we are overdue for annihilation.