70k years is a long time to build pressure... but as typical human behavior we look for patterns and correlation to predict the future. discovery is trying to sell ratings. they do this by scaring the shit out of people. humans like to be scared, and it makes the future much more exciting knowing the shit may hit the fan, rather than the idea that the rest of your life is going to boring as shit.
Mount Ranier would be a devastating eruption. Not from the eruption and ash but glacier melt. This will flood most of the rivers. Nuclear Power Plants will be at risk. Fukishima should teach us something.
@jrm404 An additional, and little known, threat from Mount Rainier is the danger of volcanic edifice collapse. The upper part of the north slope is weakened by thermodynamic alteration of the rocks. A large-scale collapse of the north face would create a devastating landslide and lahars.
The ash from the eruption will cover much of the breadbasket of the U.S. Probably killing over one third of the crops in the U.S. and dropping the temperature enough to kill most of the other two thirds of the crops for a couple of growing seasons. It will be devastating but won't kill all of us. Most of the U.S. population that survives starvation and the nuclear plant meltdowns will migrate south. As far as South America.
With the continuous steam venting and release of toxic gasses at Yellowstone along with the seismic activity the volcano is going to erupt one day. It may be tomorrow or thousands of years from now. Nobody knows. The longer pressure builds under the caldera the more violent the eruption will be. It won't be an extinction event though. I would worry more about the nuclear power plants being buried in ash along the Missouri River and then melting down rather than the eruption itself.
In the recent years there have been a discovery which might be a breakthrough in our understanding of supervolcanism. In the north-western Italy scientists found Sesia Caldera, a very ancient, 25 km deep supervolcanic system, which had been turned from vertical to horizontal position and fully exposed as a result of the crust twisting, when African plate crashed into Euroasiatic plate.
im already a huge fan, I am an American currently living and working here in Indonesia, I have become infatuated with Indonesian stratovolcanoes. I have climbed some of the more well known ones or trekked around them including Semeru, Rinjani, Merapi, Lawu, Sindoro, Salak, Krakatau, Lake Toba, Batur Caldera and many more. Any links or insight about these places would be super appreciated because i find the data available and videos is sparse at best.
The pole shift theory is interesting. I'd look into it if I were you. There is a reason for all of the volcanic activity, tsunomies, ice cap melting, landslides and all of the hurricanes gaining in size and strength. Read the book called Crossing the Cusp. IF YOU DARE! Stop being blind people. This world is about to change drastically.
The caldera hotspots were NOT 600,000 years apart. They were a result from POLE SHIFTS. See where the magnetic north pole is moving right now. It confirms the same direction as the caldera hotspots. The continents DON'T move over time. They move about 100 miles every major pole shift. The resulting momentum forces the oceans to crash into the land with thousands of feet high waves and anything not at high altitudes is destroyed.
@quintanafaj2009 This planet was seeded by our pet owners the Aliens. Yes, we are considered pets to the superior intelligent and advanced alien species that doesn't make direct contact or interfere with our ongoing early development. So to answer your question, it doesn't matter if animals can travel over oceans because they are put there anyways by traveling intelligent species like us.
The key to this hotspot and the mechanism of volcanic activity here is the geochemistry which dictates the type of eruption. All volcanoes are not the same.
You should be crowned wildwood Claire Queen of the Debunkers!
Claire - Just cuious as to exactly what your area of "expertise" is? You present your data coherently and are very easy to follow. Thanks for that. shc
Dammit, I was really looking forward to seeing Yellowstone blow before I die, oh well, there's still the chance of a planet killing asteroid or comet wiping us out! Great vid, I'm off to see the rest of the series!
I watch alot of documentaries on TV and online (its pretty much all what i do if im not reading) and i have to say that your comment about 'the problem with Science TV today' in my experiance 'mostly' applies to American Science TV.
American Science documentaries are over the top, sexed up and almost directed towards what the producers must feel are 'World wrestling federation' mentality viewers.
The BBC for example (and not because im British) IMHO make some wonderful and accurate Science TV.
@CyberNeticRodent I remember Harlan Ellison quoting a '60s TV producers as referring to the audience as "monkeys" & griping about the contemptuous attitude of producers; appears nothing's changed. What burns me is that people not even as science-savvy as I am but making an effort to learn watch these programs thinking they'll get good information & come away misinformed & frightened.
Just watched Michio Kaku go Ga-ga over Yellowstone. I used to think he was smart, but between that and the stuff he laid on a couple of years ago about solar flares, and I think he's working for the dark side.
claire I am new to your channel, only watched about 3 or 4 clips, I found this one very interesting (although i have liked all that i have seen), would you consider doing one on the electromagnetic pole shifting?
@Anonamouse7 Not so much a reference as a complete rip-off of the ending of that film LOL! I regret not putting Slim Pickens riding that bomb in my video somewhere.
When I found out about super-volcanoes it scared the shit out of me for two reasons. One, obviously, WE'RE ALL GOING TO DIE!!!!! And two, I was a creationist when I found out. In the back of my mind I knew that I could square this information with Noah's Flood geology. I just had to ignore that information. It almost got me to drop my creationism.
I love those doomsday "science" flicks ... er ... instructional videos. I also love to listen quietly to folks about the street describing what they've recently learned in even more sensational terms.
I do love science ... I mean real science ... in fact I love science much more than television. But I also find myself tuning into these programs, and wondering if I'm not somehow a bit of a sadist???
Excellent video. It's often very painful to watch those so-called "documentaries" on TV, and it's surprising how even serious TV stations sometimes fall to this sort of sensationalist stuff.
Another great topic for a related video would be the hypothesized mega-tsunami caused by a collapse of the island of La Palma. It's breathtaking to see some of the numbers people throw into the "discussion" about such an event.
The Toba supereruption 73 thousand years ago reduced human population to about 10 thousand. That is if one believes the Toba catastrophe theory. I'm just say is all. It sure would be a bitchy bitch. Similar to a giant space rock hitting us.
@bigboy45454545: There is substantiation for it, though. There was a genetic bottleneck at just about that time, as timed by mutation. In fact, the genetic bottleneck and the geological effects of the Toba eruption were gathered simultaneously by two different scientists in SoCal who just happened to be attending a conference in which one of them spoke. The other sought him out after the talk, and told him, "I been developing some information that might be of interest to you...."
Thanks Claire, you've certainly cleared up a few misconceptions I have had about the Yellowstone super volcano. I should know better than to just accept what those documentaries told me. Can you imagine the panic it would cause if Yellowstone had a small eruption now, those documentary film makers should be ashamed of themselves.
@snm359 yes, I can imagine. Several states full of people would panic, the highways would be blocked, civil authority would collapse, and lot's of people would die.
Why can't these media producers get the fact that this Universe is already epic enough in its scope and grandeur not to require their tacky tabloidism to make it interesting?
@notinmyname2050: What can your "epic universe" buy ye on the streets of New York? If you can't use it to sell lipstick or corn flakes, it'll not get produced or viewed.
Claire, you may be interested in reading a paper titled 'The largest volcanic eruptions on Earth', published last year in Earth-Science Reviews by Bryan et al. Very interesting.
Do you think you could touch a bit in an upcoming video about how scientists have come to identify these eruptions and what material is associated with what location?
Oh, and thanks for the video. Always good to hear sanity and reason regarding fear-mongering claims.
I am so happy someone had this saved!!! I do find the sensationalism of these "documentaries" to be entertaining, but I also realize they are doing it to sell the program. I wish more people did go about doing their own fact checking rather than just watching the show and accepting it all on "faith".
@tattooskin72 Exactly, I can't tell you how much I hate it when someone uses a documentary as a reference: "I saw it in a documentary!" As if that makes it more true. The their makers of those documentaries have their own agendas, and push that before facts.
Good vid. I never understood why nature documentaries always need to be so sensationalist. Just explaining what happened and happens now is enough. Thanks for bringing some well-needed level-headedness to the intertubes.
I'm looking forward to the upcoming episodes.
btw, when does an eruption qualify as "super vulcano"? Would the Santorini eruption or the Laacher See eruption qualify, or were they just big-ass Plinian eruptions?
@SeekerFromAA It's a hard one to define, but the best definition is probably > 10^15 kg of erupted material, which is equivalent to about 400 cubic km of rhyolitic magma (typical of supervolcanoes). Santorini wouldn't qualify, and neither would Laacher See. They were huge though, bigger than anything in the last 100 years.
@SeekerFromAA "supervolcano" isn't really a scientific term, but most commonly people consider any eruption that expels 1,000 or more cubic kilometers of material a supervolcanic eruption. Under that definition, Santorini wouldn't be quite big enough. Laacher-See I don't know about.
@SeekerFromAA: One has to always keep in mind that the companies which produced 13 or so "specials" on Yellowstone since 1995 have done so not for science, but for profit, which means attracting sponsors, which means attracting viewers. Indeed, without the profit they wouldn't be producing them at all, and so, from their point of view, the racier the better, and if that involves a little exaggeration, well, that's just The American Way.
@puncheex I agree with it being the American way, but at what point do we draw the line between free market shows for profit and profitting off of scaring people? Is it ok to scare people if it is not really true? I don't think it should be legislated, but there are some ethical issues there. Something that is the capitalist way. If it makes profit then who cares about ethics. Not always the case, of course, but I have seen it more and more.
@Thayer79: Dunno. I wouldn't want to be responsible for drafting legislation to do it. I don't see any other way to do it, personally. Maybe you could get Lady Gaga to narrate it? Or appear in the nude at Yellowstone, narrating it?
Thanks for pointing this out, tv has quite a bad habit of ignoring parts of scince to keep people interested...sometimes quote mining like creationists....
70k years is a long time to build pressure... but as typical human behavior we look for patterns and correlation to predict the future. discovery is trying to sell ratings. they do this by scaring the shit out of people. humans like to be scared, and it makes the future much more exciting knowing the shit may hit the fan, rather than the idea that the rest of your life is going to boring as shit.
my 2 cents.
evilwatermelon 1 week ago
Thanks for this yellowstone video clip.
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Mount Ranier would be a devastating eruption. Not from the eruption and ash but glacier melt. This will flood most of the rivers. Nuclear Power Plants will be at risk. Fukishima should teach us something.
jrm404 3 months ago
@jrm404 An additional, and little known, threat from Mount Rainier is the danger of volcanic edifice collapse. The upper part of the north slope is weakened by thermodynamic alteration of the rocks. A large-scale collapse of the north face would create a devastating landslide and lahars.
WildwoodClaire1 3 months ago
The ash from the eruption will cover much of the breadbasket of the U.S. Probably killing over one third of the crops in the U.S. and dropping the temperature enough to kill most of the other two thirds of the crops for a couple of growing seasons. It will be devastating but won't kill all of us. Most of the U.S. population that survives starvation and the nuclear plant meltdowns will migrate south. As far as South America.
jrm404 3 months ago
With the continuous steam venting and release of toxic gasses at Yellowstone along with the seismic activity the volcano is going to erupt one day. It may be tomorrow or thousands of years from now. Nobody knows. The longer pressure builds under the caldera the more violent the eruption will be. It won't be an extinction event though. I would worry more about the nuclear power plants being buried in ash along the Missouri River and then melting down rather than the eruption itself.
jrm404 3 months ago
LOL@ 0:14
Claire (?) , burying your head in your hand will NOT save you when the SUPERVOLCANO comes for you! :)
geonerd 3 months ago
That pretty good. I don't know you made this one
pigwigpa 5 months ago
In the recent years there have been a discovery which might be a breakthrough in our understanding of supervolcanism. In the north-western Italy scientists found Sesia Caldera, a very ancient, 25 km deep supervolcanic system, which had been turned from vertical to horizontal position and fully exposed as a result of the crust twisting, when African plate crashed into Euroasiatic plate.
kubat1987 6 months ago
im already a huge fan, I am an American currently living and working here in Indonesia, I have become infatuated with Indonesian stratovolcanoes. I have climbed some of the more well known ones or trekked around them including Semeru, Rinjani, Merapi, Lawu, Sindoro, Salak, Krakatau, Lake Toba, Batur Caldera and many more. Any links or insight about these places would be super appreciated because i find the data available and videos is sparse at best.
ethereal72 7 months ago
The pole shift theory is interesting. I'd look into it if I were you. There is a reason for all of the volcanic activity, tsunomies, ice cap melting, landslides and all of the hurricanes gaining in size and strength. Read the book called Crossing the Cusp. IF YOU DARE! Stop being blind people. This world is about to change drastically.
charliopal 8 months ago
@charliopal OK, if you'll stop credulously accepting every pseudo-scientific bullshit fad you see and actually learn think critically.
WildwoodClaire1 8 months ago
Very interesting to watch...
Can you explain the increase in seismic activity in 2010? I think we could see an eruption but a small one. Not the apocalypse!
Tim4030 9 months ago
omg i hate your accent!
jennifer171986 10 months ago
@jennifer171986 And?
WildwoodClaire1 10 months ago
Ok so who made this lady so super smart about volcanos
BDeslongchamps 10 months ago
Love your videos
Devilsean 11 months ago
Scientists are IDIOTS compared to me.
The caldera hotspots were NOT 600,000 years apart. They were a result from POLE SHIFTS. See where the magnetic north pole is moving right now. It confirms the same direction as the caldera hotspots. The continents DON'T move over time. They move about 100 miles every major pole shift. The resulting momentum forces the oceans to crash into the land with thousands of feet high waves and anything not at high altitudes is destroyed.
realfootage 11 months ago
@realfootage Ah! That's why I've heard so much about you with regard to a Nobel Prize.
WildwoodClaire1 11 months ago
@realfootage then explain the same animals and plants that cant move over salt water that are the same species on different continents?
quintanafaj2009 5 months ago
@quintanafaj2009 This planet was seeded by our pet owners the Aliens. Yes, we are considered pets to the superior intelligent and advanced alien species that doesn't make direct contact or interfere with our ongoing early development. So to answer your question, it doesn't matter if animals can travel over oceans because they are put there anyways by traveling intelligent species like us.
realfootage 5 months ago
@realfootage then explain why we have mountains and why we have the Mariana trench?
quintanafaj2009 5 months ago
btw your talking to someone who doesnt believe in aliens
quintanafaj2009 5 months ago
Ann Coulter super-scare FTW!
kolonial72 11 months ago
Bravo Claire,
The key to this hotspot and the mechanism of volcanic activity here is the geochemistry which dictates the type of eruption. All volcanoes are not the same.
You should be crowned wildwood Claire Queen of the Debunkers!
timsheehan2003 11 months ago
Claire - Just cuious as to exactly what your area of "expertise" is? You present your data coherently and are very easy to follow. Thanks for that. shc
captainpeabody 1 year ago
@captainpeabody I have degrees in geology and field experience as a geologist in the coal industry. However, I work in a different field now.
WildwoodClaire1 1 year ago
Dammit, I was really looking forward to seeing Yellowstone blow before I die, oh well, there's still the chance of a planet killing asteroid or comet wiping us out! Great vid, I'm off to see the rest of the series!
0pnMnded 1 year ago
bbbbbbb Claire....when they said..."we are long overdue"....there was ominous music playing. Checkmate!
MrJmm999 1 year ago
Excellent. And according to my latest three outside temperature measurements, in 20 hours it will be -85 degrees tomorrow!
Desertphile 1 year ago
@Desertphile It's supposed to be in the vicinity of 80 degrees here tomorrow.
WildwoodClaire1 1 year ago
6:53
Holy crap! That scared the hell out of me! We're all going to die!
...or not.
Great video!
Bear5177 1 year ago
I watch alot of documentaries on TV and online (its pretty much all what i do if im not reading) and i have to say that your comment about 'the problem with Science TV today' in my experiance 'mostly' applies to American Science TV.
American Science documentaries are over the top, sexed up and almost directed towards what the producers must feel are 'World wrestling federation' mentality viewers.
The BBC for example (and not because im British) IMHO make some wonderful and accurate Science TV.
CyberNeticRodent 1 year ago
@CyberNeticRodent I remember Harlan Ellison quoting a '60s TV producers as referring to the audience as "monkeys" & griping about the contemptuous attitude of producers; appears nothing's changed. What burns me is that people not even as science-savvy as I am but making an effort to learn watch these programs thinking they'll get good information & come away misinformed & frightened.
eumenidis 1 year ago
Just watched Michio Kaku go Ga-ga over Yellowstone. I used to think he was smart, but between that and the stuff he laid on a couple of years ago about solar flares, and I think he's working for the dark side.
watch?v=xGVoZDloDKw
puncheex 1 year ago
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puncheex 1 year ago
claire I am new to your channel, only watched about 3 or 4 clips, I found this one very interesting (although i have liked all that i have seen), would you consider doing one on the electromagnetic pole shifting?
stressgranule 1 year ago
you said 630 million y/a instead of thousand :)
MrVeganGuy 1 year ago
Are super-volcanoes weakened by Kryptonite?
dabigq 1 year ago
Ah, Anne Coulter
/watch?v=1FKF4Z36hyQ
achtungcircus 1 year ago
Did you ever live in the UK? You seem to mention bits of british culture now and again that most americans wouldn't be familiar with.
wordavee 1 year ago
@wordavee Anglophile since discovering Masterpiece Theatre as a child.
WildwoodClaire1 1 year ago
Oh, thank you! That story had me worried!
Nilsy1975 1 year ago
Great video.
The ending (with all the volcanoes) is a Dr Strangelove reference, right? Loved it. :D
Anonamouse7 1 year ago
@Anonamouse7 Not so much a reference as a complete rip-off of the ending of that film LOL! I regret not putting Slim Pickens riding that bomb in my video somewhere.
WildwoodClaire1 1 year ago 2
When I found out about super-volcanoes it scared the shit out of me for two reasons. One, obviously, WE'RE ALL GOING TO DIE!!!!! And two, I was a creationist when I found out. In the back of my mind I knew that I could square this information with Noah's Flood geology. I just had to ignore that information. It almost got me to drop my creationism.
TheAtheistPaladin 1 year ago
This video reminded me of potholer54debunks, except with an Appalachian accent.
PrimateDaddy 1 year ago
Somebody's a bit of a Vera Lynn fan methinks. ;)
skepticoz 1 year ago
I love those doomsday "science" flicks ... er ... instructional videos. I also love to listen quietly to folks about the street describing what they've recently learned in even more sensational terms.
I do love science ... I mean real science ... in fact I love science much more than television. But I also find myself tuning into these programs, and wondering if I'm not somehow a bit of a sadist???
DuGrail 1 year ago
Excellent video. It's often very painful to watch those so-called "documentaries" on TV, and it's surprising how even serious TV stations sometimes fall to this sort of sensationalist stuff.
Another great topic for a related video would be the hypothesized mega-tsunami caused by a collapse of the island of La Palma. It's breathtaking to see some of the numbers people throw into the "discussion" about such an event.
KaroKoenich 1 year ago
looking forward to the rest of this.
macnutz 1 year ago
I'm looking forward to the next mass extinction event.
NotSoOldHippy 1 year ago
The Toba supereruption 73 thousand years ago reduced human population to about 10 thousand. That is if one believes the Toba catastrophe theory. I'm just say is all. It sure would be a bitchy bitch. Similar to a giant space rock hitting us.
bigboy45454545 1 year ago
@bigboy45454545: There is substantiation for it, though. There was a genetic bottleneck at just about that time, as timed by mutation. In fact, the genetic bottleneck and the geological effects of the Toba eruption were gathered simultaneously by two different scientists in SoCal who just happened to be attending a conference in which one of them spoke. The other sought him out after the talk, and told him, "I been developing some information that might be of interest to you...."
puncheex 1 year ago
Great video! Thank You.
buckethead41 1 year ago
Thanks Claire, you've certainly cleared up a few misconceptions I have had about the Yellowstone super volcano. I should know better than to just accept what those documentaries told me. Can you imagine the panic it would cause if Yellowstone had a small eruption now, those documentary film makers should be ashamed of themselves.
snm359 1 year ago
@snm359 yes, I can imagine. Several states full of people would panic, the highways would be blocked, civil authority would collapse, and lot's of people would die.
WildwoodClaire1 1 year ago
Danke!
mcrd2001 1 year ago
Why can't these media producers get the fact that this Universe is already epic enough in its scope and grandeur not to require their tacky tabloidism to make it interesting?
notinmyname2050 1 year ago
@notinmyname2050: What can your "epic universe" buy ye on the streets of New York? If you can't use it to sell lipstick or corn flakes, it'll not get produced or viewed.
puncheex 1 year ago
I'm learning alot of stuff, Thank You!
otur1 1 year ago
Claire, you may be interested in reading a paper titled 'The largest volcanic eruptions on Earth', published last year in Earth-Science Reviews by Bryan et al. Very interesting.
Webofscience 1 year ago
@Webofscience Thanks. I just read the abstract and it looks interesting. I've been thinking about doing a video on LIPs.
WildwoodClaire1 1 year ago
Claire,
Do you think you could touch a bit in an upcoming video about how scientists have come to identify these eruptions and what material is associated with what location?
Oh, and thanks for the video. Always good to hear sanity and reason regarding fear-mongering claims.
balanceseeker 1 year ago
I am so happy someone had this saved!!! I do find the sensationalism of these "documentaries" to be entertaining, but I also realize they are doing it to sell the program. I wish more people did go about doing their own fact checking rather than just watching the show and accepting it all on "faith".
tattooskin72 1 year ago
@tattooskin72 Exactly, I can't tell you how much I hate it when someone uses a documentary as a reference: "I saw it in a documentary!" As if that makes it more true. The their makers of those documentaries have their own agendas, and push that before facts.
nerhu59 1 year ago
Good vid. I never understood why nature documentaries always need to be so sensationalist. Just explaining what happened and happens now is enough. Thanks for bringing some well-needed level-headedness to the intertubes.
I'm looking forward to the upcoming episodes.
btw, when does an eruption qualify as "super vulcano"? Would the Santorini eruption or the Laacher See eruption qualify, or were they just big-ass Plinian eruptions?
SeekerFromAA 1 year ago
@SeekerFromAA It's a hard one to define, but the best definition is probably > 10^15 kg of erupted material, which is equivalent to about 400 cubic km of rhyolitic magma (typical of supervolcanoes). Santorini wouldn't qualify, and neither would Laacher See. They were huge though, bigger than anything in the last 100 years.
Webofscience 1 year ago
@SeekerFromAA "supervolcano" isn't really a scientific term, but most commonly people consider any eruption that expels 1,000 or more cubic kilometers of material a supervolcanic eruption. Under that definition, Santorini wouldn't be quite big enough. Laacher-See I don't know about.
WildwoodClaire1 1 year ago
@WildwoodClaire1 Laacher See was in the size of Krakatau: 6 km³ of magma, 16 km³ of tephra (Volcanic Explosivity Index 6).
Nice region to visit, BTW.
0x8x0 1 year ago
@SeekerFromAA: One has to always keep in mind that the companies which produced 13 or so "specials" on Yellowstone since 1995 have done so not for science, but for profit, which means attracting sponsors, which means attracting viewers. Indeed, without the profit they wouldn't be producing them at all, and so, from their point of view, the racier the better, and if that involves a little exaggeration, well, that's just The American Way.
puncheex 1 year ago
@puncheex I agree with it being the American way, but at what point do we draw the line between free market shows for profit and profitting off of scaring people? Is it ok to scare people if it is not really true? I don't think it should be legislated, but there are some ethical issues there. Something that is the capitalist way. If it makes profit then who cares about ethics. Not always the case, of course, but I have seen it more and more.
Thayer79 1 year ago
@Thayer79: Dunno. I wouldn't want to be responsible for drafting legislation to do it. I don't see any other way to do it, personally. Maybe you could get Lady Gaga to narrate it? Or appear in the nude at Yellowstone, narrating it?
puncheex 1 year ago
@puncheex Hey! Sex sells! You never know.
Thayer79 1 year ago
Thank you!
awatson945 1 year ago
Why uploading it in 360p? My mirror was 480.
skinnyjohnsen 1 year ago
@skinnyjohnsen I dunno. I just downloaded your copy using YouTube Downloader and then uploaded to YT from my Download folder.
WildwoodClaire1 1 year ago
Thanks for pointing this out, tv has quite a bad habit of ignoring parts of scince to keep people interested...sometimes quote mining like creationists....
Love your vids :-D
knifeguyfromdenmark2 1 year ago
Excellent!
DonSSanders 1 year ago
omg! We're all gonna die!
Everybody panic!
*sobs*
Arikiel 1 year ago 2