Now imagine that happening on an apocalyptic scale: millennia-long volcanic eruptions setting on fire--even exploding--massive coal deposits in present day Siberia.

现在，请想像发生在灾难片中的一幕：长达千年的火山持续喷发，引燃，甚至引爆了现今埋藏于西伯利亚地下巨大的煤矿床。

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It now looks like an apocalyptic dive in consumer sentiment was avoided by the Spain-Italy bail-out rumors that began bubbling up in late July.

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But electoral expectations were set way too high on the right, so now we are experiencing unnecessary melodrama from people who should never have been exposed to apocalyptic agitprop in the first place.

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