The Last Days

I'm watching the movie Supervolcano on the Discovery Channel. It's real Old Testament End-of-the-World stuff, but it's based on good science. The prophecies about conditions leading up to the Second Coming of Christ look pretty plausible. The tsunami in South Asia is another case, as is the possibility of much greater ones which could be caused by parts of islands in the Canary and the Hawaiian Islands, up to 500 0r 1000 feet high. Then there's the potential for plaque represented by the failure of antibiotics, flooding and the destruction of infrastructure like clean water, sewage treatment, etc. such natural disasters would entail, not to mention the breakdown of law and order.

The film begins with a scientist at Yellowstone dismissing the possibility of a new eruption there. There's not much point in worrying about it, except for storing food and water, because it would make short work of our vaunted technology and civilization. FEMA wouldn't stand a chance. Global warming looks pretty puny in comparison.