According to National Geographic, the researchers, from Arizona State University, analyzed minerals in fossilized ash from the most recent mega-eruption and found changes in temperature and composition that had only taken a few decades. Until now, the magazine reported, geologists had thought it would take centuries for the supervolcano to make the transition.
The discovery, which was presented at a recent volcanology conference, comes on top of a 2011 study that found that ground above the magma reservoir in Yellowstone had bulged by about 10 inches in seven years.
Maybe it can blow up just enough to cool the planet a few degrees.
Not even joking, “if you don’t knock it off with the global warming, the Chinese may blow up a supervolcano without your approval to try to cool the planet” is a tack I have tried using on some right-wingers.