Yellowstone Supereruption during WWII
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"The magma reservoir is at least 50 percent larger than previously imaged."
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/science/2013/04/18/yellowstone-volcano-bigger-than-thought/#ixzz2RGTIaI4B
Humanity barely survives XK-class scenario. America becomes mythical civilization dismissed by all serious scholars.
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/science/2013/04/18/yellowstone-volcano-bigger-than-thought/#ixzz2RGTIaI4B
Humanity barely survives XK-class scenario. America becomes mythical civilization dismissed by all serious scholars.
Dorozhand
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About 1941-43, when the total victory of the allies at least wasn't as totally inevitable.
Hmmm. The United States is knocked completely out of the war.
Collateral effects are a series of super-winters, accompanied by massive crop failures worldwide. Temperate regions will probably do a bit better.
I'd say it would suck to be the soviet union.
Collateral effects are a series of super-winters, accompanied by massive crop failures worldwide. Temperate regions will probably do a bit better.
I'd say it would suck to be the soviet union.
I recalled there being a WWII & a Yellowstone Eruption thread a few years ago, so I searched for it, and, rather than just post a link to the 2 year old sleeping thread, I'm reposting a couple of the more salient comments (The OP in this thread specified an eruption in 1941):
The Wehrmacht's infantry divisions can ice skate across the Channel in the final phase of Operation Sealion.
Of course, it would also suck to be fighting in the Soviet Union, as most of the Wehrmacht was...
Will Kürlich Kerl
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Only to find that the British had went around them and launched an attack into France.
And then everybody ran out of food and starved to death. The End.
Its worth noting that the Yellowstone caldera has had three supereruptions in the last 2,1 million years. None seem assciated with any exinction pulse, even among large mammals in North America. Big fat ground sloths handled it well enough on the same continent. Its not going to lead to other countries changing long-term climate. And we are Earths chamipon adapters.
If fat sloths can handle it, so can we.
Anyway, weather and wind direction during the eruption would matter a LOT.
If fat sloths can handle it, so can we.
Anyway, weather and wind direction during the eruption would matter a LOT.
Australia is already a grain producer, but no cooler climates normally equal drier climates as less evaporation occurs and so less water in the atmosphere to participate as rain.
Kongzilla
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Endless War.
America loses all it's pacific holdings. Germany is bogged down in an endless war in Russia with most fighting being done from bunker like halftracks that contain heat sources. Japan is slogging it out with China and the remains of the British in India.
Sounds like a cool story. World Winter War.
America loses all it's pacific holdings. Germany is bogged down in an endless war in Russia with most fighting being done from bunker like halftracks that contain heat sources. Japan is slogging it out with China and the remains of the British in India.
Sounds like a cool story. World Winter War.
Daffy Duck
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If we are talking a Pinatubo type explosion, thats only a VEI-6
If we are talking a Toba or Yellowstone, definetly VEI-8
Mount Toba was something of a rarity, in terms of it's most recent eruption. It was quite possibly the biggest eruption in the last 25 million years. That doesn't happen all that often folks.
That being said, if we did get a Toba magnitude eruption, you can kiss the US goodbye as we know it. No way in hell they'd be able to stay in the war. We'd be too busy trying not to starve to death, along with the ENTIRE northern hemisphere, if not the world. Toba's eruption led to several years of volcanic winter. The fact that it occurred during the last Ice Age exacorbated the effects.
In today's climate, a Yellowstone type eruption would indeed knock the US out of the war, in my opinion. We'd have widespread crop failures and masses of people migrating to get out of the way of the ash fallout. Southern Hemisphere would be much less affected. Europe and Asia would see some cold winters for a few years. A lot more frozen germans on the steppes of Russia to be sure.
As for the Pacific Theater? I think Japan's defeat was invetiable. Might have just taken more time in this scenario.
If we are talking a Pinatubo type explosion, thats only a VEI-6
If we are talking a Toba or Yellowstone, definetly VEI-8
Mount Toba was something of a rarity, in terms of it's most recent eruption. It was quite possibly the biggest eruption in the last 25 million years. That doesn't happen all that often folks.
That being said, if we did get a Toba magnitude eruption, you can kiss the US goodbye as we know it. No way in hell they'd be able to stay in the war. We'd be too busy trying not to starve to death, along with the ENTIRE northern hemisphere, if not the world. Toba's eruption led to several years of volcanic winter. The fact that it occurred during the last Ice Age exacorbated the effects.
In today's climate, a Yellowstone type eruption would indeed knock the US out of the war, in my opinion. We'd have widespread crop failures and masses of people migrating to get out of the way of the ash fallout. Southern Hemisphere would be much less affected. Europe and Asia would see some cold winters for a few years. A lot more frozen germans on the steppes of Russia to be sure.
As for the Pacific Theater? I think Japan's defeat was invetiable. Might have just taken more time in this scenario.