For those who’d like to get their minds off the War Against Islamism, and contemplate lighter fare, consider the possibility that Yellowstone could explode.

This is due any day now, geologically speaking (meaning any time from tomorrow to tens of thousands of years from now), and when it does, we won’t have to worry about global warming any more–it will mean (among other things) several years of planet-wide winter, and perhaps even a return to the glacial period that we just came out of a few thousand years ago.

Try writing the environmental impact statement for blasting much of western North America with magma and ash, and then encasing Canada, much of the US, Europe, and Russia in a couple-mile thick sheet of ice…