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Re:Supervolcano Campi Flegrei Stirs Under Naples Italy by ChuckMcM on Monday January 02, 2017 @01:28AM (#13299445)
"There will be another supervolcano explosion," scientist James Quick, a geologist at Southern Methodist University in Texas, said in a statement when that volcano was found.

When this happens it is going to immediately change world climate to something very much colder than it is now. It suggests to me that some sort of preparation for surviving in very different climatic conditions than the one we currently experience would be a good investment in time and resources. That said, I'm not entirely sure how we might plan something like that.

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Re:Supervolcano Campi Flegrei Stirs Under Naples Italy by thesmallestcat on Monday January 02, 2017 @01:43AM (#13299498)
It wouldn't be anything new: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_Without_a_Summer

A more serious situation would be more than one eruption, or a sequence of eruptions to sustain the effects: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extreme_weather_events_of_535%...

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Re:Supervolcano Campi Flegrei Stirs Under Naples Italy by chakalakasp on Monday January 02, 2017 @03:13PM (#13304064)
Well, the last time this caldera really went it was twice the size of Tambora, so it'd probably be several years of impact.
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Re:Supervolcano Campi Flegrei Stirs Under Naples Italy by meddlepal on Monday January 02, 2017 @01:31AM (#13299458)
You cant really plan for such an event because it could occur a year from now or five thousand years from now which on a geological time scale might as well be tomorrow.
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Re:Supervolcano Campi Flegrei Stirs Under Naples Italy by ChuckMcM on Monday January 02, 2017 @01:49AM (#13299511)
I'm not sure that is the case. Looking at something like the BioSphere[1] but without the hard core (we have to seal it) mentality) there is some evidence that reasonably environmentally immune living situations could be created.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biosphere_2

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Re:Supervolcano Campi Flegrei Stirs Under Naples Italy by gnur on Monday January 02, 2017 @04:56AM (#13300199)
Except for the fact you'll need external energy.

  and passive solar input through the glass space frame panels covering most of the facility, and electrical power was supplied into Biosphere 2 from an onsite natural gas energy center.
Furthermore, it probably won't be able to heat itself enough when the surroundings cool down below a certain treshold, something that could very likely happen when a new ice age hits.
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