From the BBC Drama
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A new BBC drama claims that the Yellowstone supervolcano is
unstable and could explode, and if it does, subsequent
disruptions of the earth?s climate will lead to the deaths
of a billion human beings. Although the film is not a
documentary, its producers claim that it is based on actual
data gathered with the help of US Federal Emergency
Management Agency, the Pentagon, and the US Geologic Survey.
A USGS spokesman told Unknowncountry.com that the agency
does not anticipate an explosion of the Yellowstone
supervolcano at this time. However, numerous geologic
changes in the area in recent years do suggest that it is
becoming more active. In past geologic history, the volcano
has erupted approximately every 600,000 years. It is 640,000
years since the last eruption.
The Yellowstone supervolcano is a vast area of magma that
lies beneath Yellowstone Park. Its eruptions in the past
have spread ash across most of the United States, and led to
years without summer, due to ash filling the atmosphere and
causing generalized cooling. The BBC drama suggests that the
US and Canada would suffer numerous growing seasons without
crops, and that food production worldwide would plummet in
the wake of such an eruption.
The volcano would kill a hundred thousand during the
eruption itself, largely due to ash falls and gasses
downwind of Yellowstone. But trillions of tons of ash would
then enter the atmosphere, causing as much as a 60% decline
in food production and worldwide famine. Hardest hit would
be poor countries that must import food, and the US and
Canada, which would experience an almost total disruption of
farming and an inability to import enough to feed their
populations.
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