Yellowstone Won't Explode And End Civilisation (Sorry) | The Deep Dive
Why Hacker News recommends it
Linked whenever Yellowstone or caldera unrest comes up, as the debunking of civilization-ending eruption fears.
What it is
Soup Emporium's deep dive argues that Yellowstone is not a ticking timebomb. It goes through uplift and subsidence, earthquakes and what the caldera really is, to rebut supervolcano doom claims.
Recommended by 3 HN commenters across 2 different months, 2023 to 2024.
What Hacker News said
Recommends sickofparadox · 2023-04 · on “Could we stop Yellowstone from erupting with a giant geothermal power plant?”
Firstly, Law of Headlines - the answer is no. But secondly, Volcanologists are not even worried about Yellowstone erupting anytime soon: [this video]
Recommends coltonv · 2023-04 · on “Could we stop Yellowstone from erupting with a giant geothermal power plant?”
Just so everyone knows, the whole "Yellowstone is a supervolcano that could erupt any minute and cause cataclysmic effects on the planet" is just not true. It was made up for TV "documentaries". Yellowstone does not pose any real threat to society at large. Volcanologists are practically unanimous in that belief. See this video for more information: [this video]
Recommends sparcpile · 2023-09 · on “What's Going on at Italy's Campi Flegrei Caldera?”
There is a video by Soup Emporium on Youtube that compares the uplift of the Yellowstone caldera to Campi Flegrei's. The video is queued up to where Campi Flegrei is discussed. [this video]
Cites _uhtu · 2024-07 · on “Hydrothermal explosion at Yellowstone National Park”
Yellowstone will not explode and end civilization (or American civilization for that matter) in many many lifetimes: [this video]
Cites _uhtu · 2024-08 · on “Paris Agreement thresholds crossed”
There is no real prospect of a "Yellowstone event": [this video] We could effectively geoengineer one by pumping things into the upper atmosphere ourselves, but there's a lot of questions about that and we have no idea if this would help more than it hurt.