{"id":2223,"date":"2011-11-17T17:31:38","date_gmt":"2011-11-17T06:31:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/?p=2223"},"modified":"2011-11-17T17:36:31","modified_gmt":"2011-11-17T06:36:31","slug":"nasa-supervolcano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/2011\/11\/nasa-supervolcano-2223.html","title":{"rendered":"NASA Expert: No 2012 Supervolcano"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is weak, weak, weak. The headline is quite definite:<\/p>\n<h2>Supervolcanoes: Not a Threat For 2012<\/h2>\n<p>But if you read the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/topics\/earth\/features\/2012-superVolcano.html\">article<\/a>, NASA expert Adam Voiland (<em>not an expert really, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adamvoiland.com\/resume%20page.htm\">see his resume<\/a><\/em>) points out:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Volcanologists have many <strong>unanswered <\/strong>questions  about supervolcanoes, including what triggers their eruptions, and how can we predict when the next supervolcano will erupt?<\/li>\n<li>The most recent supereruption occurred in New Zealand about 26,000 years ago.<\/li>\n<li>Scientists have no way of predicting with perfect accuracy whether a  supervolcano will occur in a given century, decade, or year \u2013 and that  includes 2012.<\/li>\n<li>The odds if a supervolcano erupting in any given year is close to a million-to-one.<\/li>\n<li>There\u2019s no sign of a supereruption looming anytime soon.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>On that last point, given that scientists have never witnessed such an eruption, and they don&#8217;t know what triggers them, how do they know what to look for?<\/p>\n<p>For those of us that believe there were advanced ancient civilizations that could do things like, say, build pyramids &#8211; 26,000 years ago is recent enough that the Taupo eruption might have been intelligently observed, and notes passed on. And 13 months is plenty of time for a supervolcano to kick-start itself.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>It looks like next in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/topics\/earth\/features\/2012-series.html\">the series<\/a> will be either Nibiru or pole shifts. I bet they either ignore magnetic pole shifts, or tell us they cannot happen suddenly (despite recent evidence to the contrary).<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2226\" href=\"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/2011\/11\/nasa-supervolcano-2223.html\/nasa\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2226\" title=\"nasa\" src=\"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/nasa.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"334\" height=\"270\" srcset=\"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/nasa.jpg 334w, http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/nasa-300x242.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 334px) 100vw, 334px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is weak, weak, weak. The headline is quite definite:<br \/>\nSupervolcanoes: Not a Threat For 2012<br \/>\nBut if you read the article, NASA expert Adam Voiland (not an expert really, see his resume) points out:<\/p>\n<p>Volcanologists have many unanswered questions  about supervolcanoes, including what triggers their eruptions, and how can we predict when the next supervolcano will erupt?<br \/>\nThe most recent supereruption occurred in New Zealand about 26,000 years ago.<br \/>\nScientists have no way of predicting with perfect accuracy whether a  supervolcano will occur in a given century, decade, or year \u2013 and that  includes 2012.<br \/>\nThe odds if a supervolcano erupting in any given year is close to a million-to-one.<br \/>\nThere\u2019s no sign of a supereruption looming anytime soon.<\/p>\n<p>On that last point, given that scientists have never witnessed such an eruption, and they don&#8217;t know what triggers them, how do they know what to look for?<br \/>\nFor those of us that believe there were &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,225],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nasa","category-supervolcano"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2223"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2228,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2223\/revisions\/2228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. 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