I wrote earlier this week about the media and its treatment of Yellowstone caldera. Well, I tried to be calm about a post/video I saw earlier today on CNN's American Morning blog by Rebecca Hillman, but I don't think I can. Kiran Chetry decided to interview Michio Kaku, a noted physicist, about the caldera - specifically about the recent findings about the inflation. What happens next is one of the worst interviews about Yellowstone I've ever seen - and shows us what happens when you are lazy and don't get a real expert in the field. Heck, it didn't even need to be a volcanologist, but I'm sure that they could have found even a geologist for the interview.
Some things that Kaku says in the interview include:
Yellowstone is "due" to erupt - pointing towards the repose time as the only evidence.
Any eruption of Yellowstone will "destroy the ...
