Along with nearly every living thing in North America, and a significant percentage of life around the globe.

It's not quite the scale of the dinosaur-killer asteroid, but it's pretty damned bad.

I grew up playing on one of the ash layers turned to stone. I've visited the series of eruptive locations that have moved over that hotspot for many millions of years.

Why do you assume others are ignorant?

That can genuinely be debated; it's probably about as predictable as earthquakes in California. In other words, bad ones will happen; we just can't say when with any accuracy at all.

If a super volcano could wipe out life on earth, there wouldn't be life on earth because there are lots of super volcanoes. They go off very frequently in terms of the timeline of life on earth.

but President Turd may also do that.

Holy shit.

Yellowstone blew a million years ago obviously refraining from wiping out all life. But, despite the clickbaity headline, it won't be good.

It's worth watching.

Human civilization on the other hand...

This is on your watch - yours and your ignoble republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief. You get all the blame.

condemn Pres. Trump for being an unrepentant whoremonger. Trump mongers and we die.

"Yellowstone: Make The Most Of Your Visit."

Pretty embarrassing for them.

I've never particularly liked their style of pseudo-journalism. That's why I looked a the original National Geographic article they linked to.

Homo Erectus was around over a million years ago. Obviously it didn't wipe them (or the rest of life on the planet) out... because we're still here as well as many diverse species. They were considerably less advanced than we are with considerably less technology and accommodation to survive such a catastrophic event. There would a drastic reduction in the amount of people... but overall I have no doubt that Homo Sapiens (us) would prevail on a much better basis than did our ancestors.

I think a global event of this magnitude might cause some of the more unhinged military superpowers to "take advantage" of global civil disorder... launching nukes and things like that.

would not wipe out life on the planet.

https://www.livescience.com/20714-yellowstone-supervolcano-eruption.html


Excerpt:

"But a Yellowstone megablast would not wipe out life on Earth. There were no extinctions after its last three enormous eruptions, nor have other supereruptions triggered extinctions in the last few million years. [Wipeout: History's 7 Most Mysterious Extinctions]

"Are we all going to die if Yellowstone erupts? Almost certainly the answer is no," said Jamie Farrell, a Yellowstone expert and assistant research professor at the University of Utah. "There have been quite a few supereruptions in the past couple million years, and we're still around."

Try an Asteroid larger than the one that killed the Dinosaurs.

Fear Sells, just ask a Republican.

over her and treating her like a garbage dump.

also causing a trophic cascade of ecological change

Not sure how realistic that is.