Sorry - I say “Balderdash!”
“To put the situation in context, a typical, cone-shaped stratovolcano gets its magma from seawater melting rocks along subterrainean subduction zones”
Couldn’t stop laughing; but when I read lower down that trees were dying from too much CO2 (on which trees depend), I was laughing AND crying and couldn’t read any further...
Article makes reference to New Mexico’s 175-square mile Valles Caldera and states that it is near Santa Fe. The truth is, it’s closer to Los Alamos with all it’s nuclear issues — past and present. Well — why not build the world’s biggest bomb factory atop a volcano?