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Supervolcano

TagLast edit: 17 May 2023 10:04 UTC by Leo

A supervolcano is an unusually large volcano with the potential to produce an eruption with major effects on the global climate system.

Recommendations

In The Precipice: Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity, Toby Ord offers several policy and research recommendations for handling risks from supervolcanic eruptions:[1]

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    Ord, Toby (2020) The Precipice: Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity, London: Bloomsbury Publishing, pp. 277–278.

On the as­sess­ment of vol­canic erup­tions as global catas­trophic or ex­is­ten­tial risks

Mike Cassidy13 Oct 2021 14:32 UTC
112 points
18 comments19 min readEA link

[Cross­post]: Huge vol­canic erup­tions: time to pre­pare (Na­ture)

Mike Cassidy19 Aug 2022 12:02 UTC
107 points
1 comment1 min readEA link
(www.nature.com)

What can we learn from a short pre­view of a su­per-erup­tion and what are some tractable ways of miti­gat­ing it

Mike Cassidy3 Feb 2022 11:26 UTC
53 points
0 comments6 min readEA link

Su­per­vol­ca­noes tail risk has been ex­ag­ger­ated?

Vasco Grilo6 Mar 2024 8:38 UTC
36 points
6 comments8 min readEA link
(journals.ametsoc.org)

Pri­ori­tis­ing be­tween ex­tinc­tion risks: Ev­i­dence Quality

freedomandutility30 Dec 2023 12:25 UTC
11 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

Fu­ture Mat­ters #5: su­per­vol­ca­noes, AI takeover, and What We Owe the Future

Pablo14 Sep 2022 13:02 UTC
31 points
5 comments18 min readEA link

Carl Shul­man on the com­mon-sense case for ex­is­ten­tial risk work and its prac­ti­cal implications

80000_Hours8 Oct 2021 13:43 UTC
41 points
2 comments150 min readEA link

New US Se­nate Bill on X-Risk Miti­ga­tion [Linkpost]

Evan R. Murphy4 Jul 2022 1:28 UTC
22 points
12 comments1 min readEA link
(www.hsgac.senate.gov)

More than Earth War­riors: The Di­verse Roles of Geo­scien­tists in Effec­tive Altruism

Christopher Chan31 Aug 2023 6:30 UTC
56 points
5 comments16 min readEA link

[Creative Non­fic­tion] The Toba Su­per­vol­canic Eruption

Jackson Wagner29 Oct 2021 17:02 UTC
49 points
3 comments6 min readEA link

Op­por­tu­ni­ties that sur­prised us dur­ing our Clearer Think­ing Re­grants program

spencerg7 Nov 2022 13:09 UTC
114 points
5 comments9 min readEA link

Pangea: The Worst of Times

John G. Halstead5 Apr 2020 15:13 UTC
88 points
7 comments8 min readEA link

Cause pri­ori­ti­sa­tion: Prevent­ing lake Kivu in Africa erup­tion which could kill two mil­lion.

turchin28 Dec 2022 12:32 UTC
70 points
3 comments3 min readEA link

Is­lands, nu­clear win­ter, and trade dis­rup­tion as a hu­man ex­is­ten­tial risk factor

Matt Boyd7 Aug 2022 2:18 UTC
36 points
6 comments19 min readEA link

[Paper] In­ter­ven­tions that May Prevent or Mol­lify Su­per­vol­canic Eruptions

Denkenberger15 Jan 2018 21:46 UTC
23 points
8 comments1 min readEA link
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