[Renfield]

Ping

[Williams]

And if so it could all happen again today or tomorrow.

[Erik Latranyi]

It is interesting that they cannot pinpoint the volcano that probably caused this mass die-out.

They never knew it was coming and most probably never knew why it was happening.

[Reeses]

sulphurous gases ... cooled the Earth's surface

The left is working to demonize an escape route to their world socialism trap: geoengineering. Statistically the explanation of most human mass deaths is mass executions ordered by a leftist leader.

[bike800]

Blame on man made global warming in 5...4...3...2...

[BobL]

I think that we can all agree that climate change affects volcanic activity. Just kidding.

But what’s scary about this article isn’t that the Atlantic Ocean might rise 6 inches over the next 50 years, but rather we have ZERO PREPARATIONS for an event like this again. No serious storage of food, no plans to quickly move agriculture to areas where food could still grow. Nothing. Just like for an EMP.

...and we’re the kooks. LOL.

[BobL]

“6 billion people. We probably need some population rationalisation with a volcanic eruption now.”

The above is a comment below the article. It looks like the left is further along with their genocide planning than even I suspected. They have a new term: “Population Rationalisation”

NEVER understand the capability for evil in these people.

[upchuck]

From the article:

Such was the size of the eruption that its sulphurous gases would have released a stratospheric aerosol veil or dry fog that blocked out sunlight, altered atmospheric circulation patterns and cooled the Earth's surface. It caused crops to wither, bringing famine, pestilence and death.

Would have? Really? Where's the proof. Or is this just more journolist surmising?

If they are sure this is what happened, why not drop the words "would have" from the sentence above?

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1258

In the year 1258, there was an enormous tropical volcanic eruption in January.

“One of the largest volcanic eruptions of the Holocene epoch occured, possibly from a tropical location such as Mount Rinjani, Indonesia; El Chichón, Mexico; or Quilotoa, Ecuador. Observed effects of the eruption include the following anecdotal accounts: dry fog in France; lunar eclipses in England; severe winter in Europe; a “harsh” spring in Northern Iceland; famine in England, Western Germany, France, and Northern Italy; and pestilence in London, parts of France, Austria, Iraq, Syria, and South-East Turkey.”

[silverleaf]

http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/poison-gas-cloud-that-killed-30000-britons-and-it-could-happen-again-431991.html

they didn’t necessarily starve or freeze to death all at once requiring mass pit burial

[Popman]

Related topic...

2,000 killed in Cameroon on August 22, 1986 by CO2 gas...

http://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/21/the-strangest-disaster-of-the-20th-century/

[dfwgator]

Everybody knows it was caused by SUVs.

[Bernard Marx]

The volcano was probably this Indonesian one that's been cited as one of the biggest eruptions ever during the Holocene. I don't know when they'll announce the actual site but speculation is it's Rinjani.

VOLCANO MYSTERY SOLVED?

[House Atreides]

That Volcanic eruption and the subsequent die-off was George Bush’s fault!

[Steve0113]

When archaeologists discovered thousands of medieval skeletons in a mass burial pit in east London in the 1990s, they assumed they were 14th-century victims of the Black Death or the Great Famine of 1315-17. Now...

So their authoritative pronouncements in the 1990s were completely wrong. I'll have to remember that the next time they make one.