Scientists have warned of the possibility of a massive volcanic eruption, which will change the planet’s climate and endanger the lives of millions.
Scientists said there is a 1 in 6 chance of this catastrophe occurring in the remaining 78 years of this century.
An analysis by scientists of the Niels Bohr Institute in Denmark of ice cores in Greenland and Antarctica showed that an eruption of a magnitude 7 volcano could be 10-100 times more powerful than the last recorded last year.
The possibility of an eruption of this volcano is expected.
In ancient times, previous volcanic eruptions caused abrupt changes in climate and the collapse of civilizations.
In our time, there is sad news, according to the most prominent volcanologists in Britain, that the world is not ready for an event like this.
“There is no concerted action, and no massive investment, to mitigate the global impacts of massive volcanic eruptions,” Michael Cassidy, professor of volcanoes at the University of Birmingham, told Nature.
He continued: (This needs to change).
He added: (NASA and other agencies concerned with space affairs receive hundreds of billions of dollars in funding for “planetary defense” programs, to confront the possibility of celestial bodies such as asteroids colliding with the Earth, on the other hand, there is no global program to protect the Earth in the event of an eruption. A supervolcano, which is hundreds of times more likely than asteroids and comets together to hit Earth).
The last massive volcanic eruption of 7 degrees in the world, which occurred in 1815 in Tambora, Indonesia, killing more than 100,000 people and felt its impact on millions around the world, as it caused a decrease in the earth’s temperature at that time, as well as famines and epidemics such as cholera, which spread in India.
At that time, the volcano damaged agricultural crops in China, Europe and North America.
But the occurrence of such a volcano in our current era may lead to more severe human and material losses, given the global overcrowding.
