På jorden finns hundratals aktiva vulkaner. Deras utbrott kan påverka hela vår planet. Vad händer om det verkligen smäller?

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Vad är en "supervulkan" och vad kan hända om en sådan exploderar? Hur påverkas planeten av vulkanisk aska? Vad är ett pyroklastiskt flöde? Vad är det som lurar under nationalparken Yellowstone?

Är supervulkaner en hype eller ett riktigt hot mot mänskligheten? P3 Dystopia tar reda på vad som händer när det värsta tänkbara inträffar.

Producent och programledare: Viktor Hariz
Programledare: Anna Davour

Medverkande

• Gillen D'Arcy Wood - professor i miljöhumaniora vid University of Illinois

• Steffi Burchardt - vulkanforskare och docent i strukturgeologi vid Uppsala universitet

• Erik Sturkell - professor i geofysik vid Göteborgs universitet

• Mike Poland - geofysiker vid USGS och ansvarig forskare vid vulkanobservatoriet i Yellowstone

Artiklar i urval

• Awfully Present - Thomas Jones (LRB, 2015)

• Don’t Call It a Supervolcano - Mary Caperton Morton (EOS, 2021)

• Supervolcanoes and their explosive supereruptions - Miller & Wark (Elements, 2008)

• Blow-Up - Richard Fortey (LRB, 1997)

• SUPERVOLCANOES 101 - MAYA WEI-HAAS (National Geographic, 2019)

• Questions About Supervolcanoes (USGS)

• Toba supereruption and global climate (PNAS, 2021)

• Google NGRAM sökresultat på ”Supervolcano”

• Humans thrived in South Africa through the Toba eruption about 74,000 years ago - Smith et. al. (Nature, 2018)

• DEFENDING HUMAN CIVILIZATION FROM SUPERVOLCANIC ERUPTIONS - Wilcox et. al. (NASA, 2015)

• What Is Volcanic Ash? (USGS, 1999)

• Massive volcanic eruption puts past climate and people in perspective (University of Copenhagen, 2012)

• The size and frequency of the largest explosive eruptions on Earth - Mason et. al. (Bulletin of Volcanology, 2004)

• The global magnitude–frequency relationship for large explosive volcanic eruptions - Rougier et. al. (Earth and Planetary Science, 2018)

• Anticipating future Volcanic Explosivity Index (VEI) 7 eruptions and their chilling impacts - Newhall & Robock (Geosphere, 2018)

• Global catastrophic risk from lower magnitude volcanic eruptions - Mani et. al. (Nature Communications, 2021)

• Estimating building vulnerability to volcanic ash fall for insurance and other purposes - Blong et. al. (Journal of Applied Volcanology, 2017)

Klipp i urval

• SUPERVOLCANO (BBC,  2015)

• Supervolcanoes (BBC Horizon, 2000)

• Into The Inferno (Werner Herzog, 2016)

• On the ground in St Vincent as volcano ‘destroying everything in its path’ (Channel 4, 2021)

• Volcano! - Nature's Inferno (National Geographic, 1997)

• HUGE LAVA FLOWS LEAVE PEOPLE IN AWE-MOST AWESOME VIEW ON EARTH-Iceland Volcano Throwback (Youtube, 2021)

• Investigating How Mt. Vesuvius's Victims Died (Smithsonian, 2016)

• Could the Human Race Survive a Supervolcano? (Freethink, 2020)

• St. Vincent covered in ash as LA Soufriere Volcano eruption continues | World News | WION (2021)

• Hundreds of earthquakes near Yellowstone supervolcano up eruption fears (RT America, 2017)

• Yellowstone : Scientists warn Millions could be Killed if Super-Volcano Erupts (Fox News, 2016)

• The UnxPlained: YELLOWSTONE SUPER VOLCANO Could Devastate Planet (History Channel, 2020)

• Will Yellowstone Supervolcano Erupt? Neil deGrasse Tyson & Volcanologist Janine Krippner Investigate (Startalk 2020)

• What If Yellowstone Erupts? (Unveiled, 2019)

• Yellowstone Supervolcano: America’s Armageddon (Geographics, 2020)

• This Super Volcano Has Scientists Freaking Out (Infographics show, 2019)

• What If the Yellowstone Volcano Erupted Tomorrow? (What if, 2020)

Musik

• Martin D. Fowler - Delaying The Inevitable

• Mac Quayle - 1.0_3-fucksociety.mp3

• Cliff Martinez - Will She Come Back?

• Kid Loco - Theme from the graffiti artist

• Paul Leonard Morgan - Odd

• Marcus Bagala - Untitledthingthing

• Cristobal Tapia De Veer - The Public

• Cliff Martinez - I Can't Dig Her Out

• Ben Salisbury - Estate

• Marcus Bagala - Wires: Tangerines

• Lorn - Unraveled

• Vince Pope - A New Home

• Ben Salisbury - Plainsong

• Star Hopper - Through The Heliopause

• Clint Mansell - Finish It (feat. Kronos Quartet)

• Hans Zimmer - Paradox

• Marcus Bagala - Frets: Too Too

• Marcus Bagala - Autumnal Moping

• Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross - Clue One

• WOW MOM WOW - Tryptoreal

• Vince Pope - Who are you?

• Michael McCann - Home

• Marcus Bagala - Belle Ones

• Cliff Martinez - I Got Time

• Star Hopper - Leaving The Solar System

• Sophie Harris - Travelling Coffin

• Jimmy Buffet - Volcano