Yellowstone Misinformation Called "Hogwash"

Above, a geothermal hot spring in Yellowstone National Park. Photo by Armand Vaquer.

There's a lot of scammers out there. For the past ten hours, I have been dealing with counterfeit "silver" coins that I purchased. 

Scams now come in all shapes and sizes.

There's a story about Yellowstone National Park with misinformation being bandied about the park being closed due to an alleged "imminent eruption" of the park's caldera. It is totally bogus.

Oregon Live posted:

Did you hear that Yellowstone National Park is closed? Well, it’s not.

At this point, any time we start a story with ‘did you hear...’ it’s a pretty safe bet that the thing you heard is online misinformation. That’s definitely the case with this one.

It’s true that Yellowstone did close areas last summer due to historic floods in the park. But the current claim circulating online -- that park officials have “closed down the park” due to a rising “volcanic uplift” -- has nothing to do with the very real floods back in June. Also, it isn’t true on any of the facts -- the park remains open, and there are no current signs of any “uplift.”

Claims about an imminent eruption of Yellowstone’s supervolcano pop up online pretty regularly -- and it’s easy to understand why. The Yellowstone caldera has erupted in the distant past, with global consequences, and modern scientists do monitor it for signs of volcanic activity.

That does not, however, mean an eruption is expected any time soon.

It seems that some people have nothing better to do than to spread misinformation and scam people.

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