Keith Hudson wrote:
> The one at Yosemite is the one that is most actively
> studied. It last blew up about 600,000 years ago (if I remember rightly)
> and is destined to do so again any time soon in geological terms (that is,
> it could be tomorrow or in 10,000 years).
Even if this is true (as I said, the foremost scientific Volcano website
has nothing about this), it's a stretch to use this *possibility* as an
argument against Kyoto. That's like saying it's okay to go on smoking
30 cigarettes a day "because a car could kill me tomorrow anyway"...
(and btw, the latter is much more likely than the volcano doom).
> It's to be hoped that we will be colonising space long before Yosemite
> blows up and safely looking down on Earth when it happens.
...
> Finally (a small point), super-volcanoes are ideal topics for UFO-people,
> Doom-sayers, Flat-Earthers and other similarly demented souls.
...like e.g. fossil-fuel advocates ;-)
Btw, doom-valcanoes are not the only "common ground" shared by UFO-people
and fossil-fuel advocates: The idea that UFOs will come to save us, so
we can go on destroying the environment, is a leitmotiv in the UFO-
"literature" funded by fossil-fuel "think-tanks". Weird stuff.
Chris
