[Strutz]

PublicAnimalNo9 PublicAnimalNo9:

This is an active, living planet.

...and we are merely passengers along for the ride.

[Thanos]

N_Fiddledog N_Fiddledog:

Here's another angle to view it from though.

Just for fun.

Global warming exists. The science says so.

The conditions for a large volcano below Yellowstone exist. The science says so.

There is no real world evidence of an inevitable global warming catastrophe.

There is no real world evidence of an inevitable super volcano catastrophe.

But one we take seriously, and the other we mock. Why is that?

[N_Fiddledog]

PublicAnimalNo9 PublicAnimalNo9:

N_Fiddledog N_Fiddledog:

Here's another angle to view it from though.

Just for fun.

Global warming exists. The science says so.

The conditions for a large volcano below Yellowstone exist. The science says so.

There is no real world evidence of an inevitable global warming catastrophe.

There is no real world evidence of an inevitable super volcano catastrophe.

Actually, there's plenty of evidence. It happens somewhat regularly on a geologic timescale.
The last one just about ended humankind.
It's kind'a like saying there's no real world evidence that "the big one"(earthquake) off the West Coast is inevitable. It may not happen when you and I are still alive, but it's gonna happen. This is an active, living planet.

Yeah, bad choice of words. I should have said imminent.

I think I read somewhere the estimate of when they figure the Yellowstone should blow is in a few thousand years, or something.

If government believed people would buy into a Volcano tax though, I bet you'd find after a few grants and some political appointments there would be GIGO climate models flying around telling you it's going to happen yesterday. Some nutty website would come out with a study showing 97% of scientists agree, and all the nutty readers would be hurting their arms, patting themselves on the back for being such devoted acolytes to the true science, because they agreed.

Doonesbury would do a cartoon.

[Thanos]

Seems logical at this point to assume all the geologists and volcanologists are just as crooked as all the climatologists are, i.e. they've all been paid off by George Soros!

[N_Fiddledog]

Thanos Thanos:

Seems logical at this point to assume all the geologists and volcanologists are just as crooked as all the climatologists are, i.e. they've all been paid off by George Soros!

No, but sometimes I suspect you might be. J/K, of course.

[Thanos]

I wish. I'd be a lot better off money-wise if I was on the take for the Agenda 21-pushing internationalist kapo* who turned his own family in to the Nazis during the Holocaust.

* just another completely nutty thing you guys believe in. where's the nirth certificate?!?!?!?

[raydan]

Thanos Thanos:

Seems logical at this point to assume all the geologists and volcanologists are just as crooked as all the climatologists are, i.e. they've all been paid off by George Soros!

We know that this particular volcano went ballistic in the past, just like we know that we've been hit by asteroids in the past, major earthquakes, tsunamis... so we know it could happen again. Where I draw the line is when they start using words like imminent, soon and overdue.

[Thanos]

raydan raydan:

Thanos Thanos:

Seems logical at this point to assume all the geologists and volcanologists are just as crooked as all the climatologists are, i.e. they've all been paid off by George Soros!

We know that this particular volcano went ballistic in the past, just like we know that we've been hit by asteroids in the past, major earthquakes, tsunamis... so we know it could happen again. Where I draw the line is when they start using words like imminent, soon and overdue.

Mt. St. Helens was a good indication that it doesn't take much time for a volcano to go from sedate to active in a very short period of time. I won't dispute that the Hollywood version of "imminent", a la the 2012 movie, is pretty ridiculous. I'd use the words "probable", and even "inevitable", when discussing the eruption of the Yellowstone caldera. It's not imminent because it's probably not going to happen in our lifetimes. But it's definitely going to happen someday, same as how another extinction-level sized asteroid strike is definitely going to happen someday, and when it does there's good reason to believe that it'll be powerful enough to knock the entire world civilization on it's ass.

The cool thing is that world changing events like an asteroid strike or an eruption at Yellowstone would be one of the few things sufficiently powerful enough to put dopey conversations with conspiracists and Flat Earth Society members to a permanent end. The volcano or asteroid are going to be completely neutral about everything. They really won't care too much about what people who follow Orly Taitz or The Daily Caller think about anything. That alone might make the entire event completely worth experiencing.

[N_Fiddledog]

Thanos Thanos:

I wish. I'd be a lot better off money-wise if I was on the take for the Agenda 21-pushing internationalist kapo* who turned his own family in to the Nazis during the Holocaust.

I know what you mean. I want some of that Koch money before the coming theocracy, the volcanoe blows and we all have to march out into the field to be gathered up in Christ's holy basket for the rapture. Cause the Harry Reid crowd thinks that's what anybody to the right of Mao Tse Tung believes, right?

Hey speaking of the Clinton campaign's Birthers though, how are you Andrew Sullivan acolytes making out with your Trig trutherism?

[N_Fiddledog]

Thanos Thanos:

The cool thing is that world changing events like an asteroid strike or an eruption at Yellowstone would be one of the few things sufficiently powerful enough to put dopey conversations with conspiracists and Flat Earth Society members to a permanent end. The volcano or asteroid are going to be completely neutral about everything. They really won't care too much about what people who follow Orly Taitz or The Daily Caller think about anything. That alone might make the entire event completely worth experiencing.

Ever seen The Road from the novel by Cormac McCarthy?



I think it's supposed to take place in a post apocalypse world following some sort of asteroid crash, or super volcano event. That's the theory anyway.

[Thanos]

The BLM and the ATF are coming in their chemtrail-dispersing black helicopters to confiscate all your lolz and force you to worship the public school gay sex practitioners. If you don't cooperate it's a life sentence in a FEMA camp for you, pal, assuming you actually escape the campus thought-police operating the health-care death panel. It'll be so hideous you'll wish your mom had taken those Plan-B abortificiants like Planned Parenthood and the Tides Foundation tried to force her to do. Only the Patriots rallying at Ruby Ridge can save us from the overwhelming forces of the Guatemalan and Honduran terrorist anchor babies now.

[N_Fiddledog]

Thanos Thanos:

The BLM and the ATF are coming in their chemtrail-dispersing black helicopters to confiscate all your lolz and force you to worship the public school gay sex practitioners. If you don't cooperate it's a life sentence in a FEMA camp for you, pal, assuming you actually escape the campus thought-police operating the health-care death panel. It'll be so hideous you'll wish your mom had taken those Plan-B abortificiants like Planned Parenthood and the Tides Foundation tried to force her to do. Only the Patriots rallying at Ruby Ridge can save us from the overwhelming forces of the Guatemalan and Honduran terrorist anchor babies now.

So if I ever want to know what's happening at Info Wars I just have to ask you, right? Cause Fatboy at Little Green Footballs will have passed it on to his fans.

[Thanos]

N_Fiddledog N_Fiddledog:

Thanos Thanos:

The cool thing is that world changing events like an asteroid strike or an eruption at Yellowstone would be one of the few things sufficiently powerful enough to put dopey conversations with conspiracists and Flat Earth Society members to a permanent end. The volcano or asteroid are going to be completely neutral about everything. They really won't care too much about what people who follow Orly Taitz or The Daily Caller think about anything. That alone might make the entire event completely worth experiencing.

Ever seen The Road from the novel by Cormac McCarthy?



I think it's supposed to take place in a post apocalypse world following some sort of asteroid crash, or super volcano event. That's the theory anyway.

Good movie, better book. The only flaw it had was that it was too evasive on explaining what the source of the disaster was. Not enough physical damage to be caused by an asteroid hit or nuclear war, and there's no way that a volcano eruption in Yellowstone, or elsewhere, would set all the vegetation on fire across the entire world.

[Thanos]

N_Fiddledog N_Fiddledog:

Thanos Thanos:

The BLM and the ATF are coming in their chemtrail-dispersing black helicopters to confiscate all your lolz and force you to worship the public school gay sex practitioners. If you don't cooperate it's a life sentence in a FEMA camp for you, pal, assuming you actually escape the campus thought-police operating the health-care death panel. It'll be so hideous you'll wish your mom had taken those Plan-B abortificiants like Planned Parenthood and the Tides Foundation tried to force her to do. Only the Patriots rallying at Ruby Ridge can save us from the overwhelming forces of the Guatemalan and Honduran terrorist anchor babies now.

So if I ever want to know what's happening at Info Wars I just have to ask you, right? Cause fatboy at Little Green Footballs will have passed it on to his fans.

You keep missing out that I really only do this for the laughs. The only sad part about this is that everything I listed above has been accurately recorded as something a modern TeaBircher conservative conspiracy/hate-monger has actually said.

[N_Fiddledog]

Thanos Thanos:

N_Fiddledog N_Fiddledog:

Thanos Thanos:

The cool thing is that world changing events like an asteroid strike or an eruption at Yellowstone would be one of the few things sufficiently powerful enough to put dopey conversations with conspiracists and Flat Earth Society members to a permanent end. The volcano or asteroid are going to be completely neutral about everything. They really won't care too much about what people who follow Orly Taitz or The Daily Caller think about anything. That alone might make the entire event completely worth experiencing.

Ever seen The Road from the novel by Cormac McCarthy?



I think it's supposed to take place in a post apocalypse world following some sort of asteroid crash, or super volcano event. That's the theory anyway.

Good movie, better book. The only flaw it had was that it was too evasive on explaining what the source of the disaster was. Not enough physical damage to be caused by an asteroid hit or nuclear war, and there's no way that a volcano eruption in Yellowstone, or elsewhere, would set all the vegetation on fire across the entire world.

I know what you mean. Loved the book. Thought the movie was OK. I didn't make that theory up about the possible source of the apocalypse, you know? I forget where the theory came from. Some obscure quote from McCarthy I think, but my impression is it wasn't clear, but was spun from an insinuation, or something like that.