Massive Lake of molten carbon discovered in the US.

[TSwizzle]

A huge well of molten carbon that would spell disaster for the planet if released has been found under the US. Scientists using the world's largest array of seismic sensors have mapped a deep-Earth area, covering 700,000 sq miles (1.8 million sq km). This is around the size of Mexico, and researchers say it has the potential to cause untold environmental damage. The discovery could change our understanding of how much carbon the Earth contains, suggesting it is much more than we previously believed.

DailyMail

Uh-oh. Driving a Prius is not going to save the planet !

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

A huge well of molten carbon that would spell disaster for the planet if released has been found under the US. Scientists using the world's largest array of seismic sensors have mapped a deep-Earth area, covering 700,000 sq miles (1.8 million sq km). This is around the size of Mexico, and researchers say it has the potential to cause untold environmental damage. The discovery could change our understanding of how much carbon the Earth contains, suggesting it is much more than we previously believed.

DailyMail

Uh-oh. Driving a Prius is not going to save the planet !

You must have read another article that indicated this represented some actual threat and linked to the wrong article.

 

[laughing dog]

Oh goody, a thread devoted to non-sequiturs.

Here's one - Water is wet. So driving a Prius is not going to save the planet.

 

[Tom Sawyer]

Oh goody, a thread devoted to non-sequiturs.

Here's one - Water is wet. So driving a Prius is not going to save the planet.

Well, what if some alien with super powers is standing in the middle of the street about to destroy the Earth and you hit him with your Prius and kill him before he's able to do so? That would mean that driving a Prius did, in fact, save the planet.

Please retract your obviously non-factual statement.

This thread does raise an interesting question, though. Is it possible to derail a thread that's derailed by its own OP?

 

[Crazy Eddie]

First of all:

Situated under western US, 217 miles (350km) beneath the Earth's surface

Clickbait article is clickbait.

Second of all...

This thread does raise an interesting question, though. Is it possible to derail a thread that's derailed by its own OP?

 

[J842P]

A huge well of molten carbon that would spell disaster for the planet if released has been found under the US. Scientists using the world's largest array of seismic sensors have mapped a deep-Earth area, covering 700,000 sq miles (1.8 million sq km). This is around the size of Mexico, and researchers say it has the potential to cause untold environmental damage. The discovery could change our understanding of how much carbon the Earth contains, suggesting it is much more than we previously believed.

DailyMail

Uh-oh. Driving a Prius is not going to save the planet !

I think you need to work on your reading comprehension and logic. Probably both.

 

[repoman]

This is part of the very long term geological carbonate rock cycle.

http://butane.chem.uiuc.edu/pshapley/Environmental/L29/2.html

 

[KeepTalking]

A huge well of molten carbon that would spell disaster for the planet if released has been found under the US. Scientists using the world's largest array of seismic sensors have mapped a deep-Earth area, covering 700,000 sq miles (1.8 million sq km). This is around the size of Mexico, and researchers say it has the potential to cause untold environmental damage. The discovery could change our understanding of how much carbon the Earth contains, suggesting it is much more than we previously believed.

DailyMail

Uh-oh. Driving a Prius is not going to save the planet !

First of all:

Situated under western US, 217 miles (350km) beneath the Earth's surface

A Tesla can drive that far without recharging, so using the chain of logic from the OP, this means that driving a Tesla can save that planet!

 

[Kharakov]

Jabba is angry.

 

[Bronzeage]

This is part of the very long term geological carbonate rock cycle.

http://butane.chem.uiuc.edu/pshapley/Environmental/L29/2.html

Cue the carbonate rock cycle deniers.

 

[bilby]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/

Possibly the most inaccurate virtual directory name in the history of the internet.

Reading anything hosted at that URL is likely to make you dumber. (In the case of the OP, this occurrence appears to have already been iterated many times).

 

[repoman]

perhaps the best debunker on youtube going at the Daly Mail: