The Puyehue volcano erupts in southern Chile, June 5, 2011.
Don't forget volcanoes. Good ol' Old Faithful
is sitting atop a massive pool of molten rock, and could go
super-volcano at any time. Don't worry, the lava would only really
affect a 40-mile or so radius; it's the slow, gloomy chokehold of the
ash cloud that would really do us in. On that note, remember a while
back when all those planes were grounded
from the ash produced by a volcano in Iceland? Well, in the spirit of
global destruction synergy, it appears that the melting of the glaciers is decreasing pressure on the volcanoes there, which could lead to a champagne-cork like effect.
Martin: The one in Iceland left a ring
of ash that circled the globe for a couple of weeks. The scenario of
blacking out the sun and changing the climate, or killing off all the
plant life though... It would have to be pretty extreme.
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