{"id":429,"date":"2009-01-02T00:52:12","date_gmt":"2009-01-02T05:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peacefulhippo.wordpress.com\/2009\/01\/02\/just-when-you-thought-things-couldnt-get-worse\/"},"modified":"2009-01-02T00:52:12","modified_gmt":"2009-01-02T05:52:12","slug":"just-when-you-thought-things-couldnt-get-worse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/2009\/01\/02\/just-when-you-thought-things-couldnt-get-worse\/","title":{"rendered":"Just when you thought things couldn’t get worse…"},"content":{"rendered":"

I found this article on Slashdot.  There are lots of good comments on the site… but basically, global warming is small potatoes if geologists are right about this…<\/p>\n

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\t\t\tIs the Yellowstone Supervolcano About To Blow? \t\t\t \t\t<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
\t \tPosted by \t \ttimothy<\/a> \ton Wednesday December 31, @06:40PM<\/b>
\tfrom the four-horsemen-dressage<\/b> dept.<\/strong> \t<\/div>\n
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\t\t\tAn anonymous reader writes “Apparently, Yellowstone National Park has been having a very unusual number of earthquakes<\/a>. Many of the most recent tremors have been deeper underground, an ominous sign. Combine that with a rapid rise in elevation over the past three years, and the possibility that earthquake activity from surrounding areas could trigger such an eruption on its own,<\/a> and you’ve got the possible warning signs of a supervolcano eruption<\/a> that would wipe out half to 2\/3 of the continental US, plunge global temperatures, and wipe out a very significant chunk of world food sources. Here’s a little more info<\/a> to make your New Year brighter!”<\/i> \t\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I found this article on Slashdot.  There are lots of good comments on the site… but basically, global warming is small potatoes if geologists are right about this… Is the Yellowstone Supervolcano About To Blow? Posted by timothy on Wednesday December 31, @06:40PM from the four-horsemen-dressage dept.   An anonymous reader writes “Apparently, Yellowstone National […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}