Maybe this eruption or another one somewhere else on the planet will trigger another year without summer, like 1816? Scientists have talked a lot about a geo-engineering plan to send solar reflecting particles into the upper atmosphere, like a volcano does.
This would be the real thing. A major volcanic event. What are the odds this could happen?
Equal to the odds that human civilization can live within its eco-means?
A recent theory came to mind in regard to volcanic cooling, specifically in the case of the Yellowstone magma bubble. as global climate change proceeds and drought evaporates aquifers, the weight of the water over the magma, that weight that offsets the pressure from the bubble, lets up. Also the cooling effect of the water turning into steam in Yellowstone's geysers would stop.
Those dual effects wouyld tend to bring on a volcanic eruption. The weight of water/ice formed Lake Superior, that's a lot of pressure. Is the weight of water in the ground over the Yellowstone magma preventing eruption?
If the water were gone would the resulting supervolcano cool the planet by obscuring solar insolation? A planetary thermostat? Think about it. How many other areas are there with drought catastophe that are over magma bubbles?
