Massive superpets may not trigger the apocalypse, only decades of chaos

Finally, there is some good news on the front of the climate apocalypse.

Climate experts have long believed that a volcanic super-mummy-educatedly powerful explosion capable of changing the earth’s atmosphere-can erase a significant part of life. But a new study of geological records suggests that the consequences will not be so apocalyptic. However, it would be bad-just not at the end of the world, since we-know-that’s bad.

This refreshing outbreak of optimism comes with the courtesy of a group of environmental scientists at the University of St. Andrews who examined ice nuclei, drawn from Greenland and Antarctica, as well as nuclei from near the Equator in the Pacific.

The nuclei contained tiny ash spots embedded in layers associated with the Los Chokoyos sphere, which has arisen in what is now known as Guatemala Attlan Caldera. While the World Smithsonian volcanism project dates the eruption 84,000 years ago, St. Andrews’ geologists claim to be more accurately dated to the ashes until 79,500 years ago.

Only for a reference framework, the most powerful eruption in the recent memory happened on June 12, 1991, when the Pinatubo Mountain of the Philippines finally exploded, after months of earthquakes and Magma slowly penetrates to the top. The resulting ash cloud is 22 miles high (35 kilometers), and 20 million tonnes of sulfur are emitted in the atmosphere, leading to a decrease of 1 degree F (0.5 C) at global temperatures from 1991 to 1993, According to to American geological studies. So many rocks and magma were discarded that the shape of the mountain was irrevocably changed, leaving behind a depression called Caldera, which was 1.6 miles (2.5 kilometers). As the signs of eruption were caught early, thousands of people managed to leave the area in advance and commercial trips with air turned clearly. However, the force was so huge, the damage of $ 100 million was caused to Jets, which fly hundreds of kilometers away.

This eruption measures only 6 of the index of volcanic explosiveness. Los Chocoyos enters the 8th, the largest result needed to register as a superstarb, which would still make it 100 times more powerful than Pinatubo.

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As for what effects Los Chokoyos had, eco -friendly scientists reported in Communication the land and the environment The fact that the nuclei showed a cooling effect that lasted between 10 and 20 years, far from the greatest scenario for declining temperatures that lasted 1000 years or more. This probably led to an increase in the amount of sea ice, but things probably went back to normal after 30 years.

As the eruption precedes human writing or even speech, modern people wandered at that time. Given that we are still here, it seems Homo sapiensAnd many other species are capable of experiencing these types of cataclysmic events. Fortunately, we probably won’t have to understand our ourselves, as super prizes are rare. The last famous happened 25,500 years ago in New Zealand, an event known as Orupanui ErptionS

“Our discoveries are improving our understanding of how sustainable the climate for large -scale injections of stratospheric sulfate can be,” says Helen Ines, a research fellow at the University of St. Andrews, who runs the study at A at A statementS “Continuing the identification of the largest volcanic eruptions in icy nuclei and the assignment of high precision ages is essential for our understanding of the risk, which the main stratosphere sulphate injections are for the global climate.”

After all, this means that even Mother Nature, in her most pain, may not erase us. We can still destroy ourselves by damaging the environment that will not be turned over for millennia, but that means that our fate is in our hands. Whether it is a positive concept or does not depend entirely on how optimistic you feel about the collective sense of self -preservation of humanity.