Supervolcanoes may sound like the next step after ‘Sharknado’, but they are a real thing – and they are still around today.
“In 1816, Europe and North America were plagued by heavy rains, odd-colored snow, famines, strange fogs and very cold weather well into June.
“Though many people believed it to be the apocalypse, this “year without a summer” was actually the result of a supervolcano eruption that happened one year earlier over 1,000 miles away.
“Alex Gendler describes the history and science of these epic eruptions.” – TED.com
There’s nothing that makes me shudder in horror quite like the idea of Yellowstone going up.
