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| -Signs, Portents, and the Weather- |
| Climate change is set to shake the earth |
| 2012-02-28 |
| We're all doomed, I tell ya. Repent and don the sackcloth and ashes. A changing climate isn't just about floods, droughts and heatwaves. It brings erupting volcanoes and catastrophic earthquakes, says Bill McGuire in London. The idea that a changing climate can persuade the ground to shake, volcanoes to rumble and tsunamis to crash on to unsuspecting coastlines seems, at first, to be bordering on the insane. How can what happens in the thin envelope of gas that shrouds and protects our world possibly influence the potentially earth-shattering processes that operate deep beneath the surface? The fact that it does reflects a failure of our imagination and a limited understanding of the manner in which the different physical components of our planet - the atmosphere, the oceans, and the solid earth, or geosphere - intertwine and interact. |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #11 Maybe we should throw some global-warming believers in a volcano to satisfy the global warming gods so they'll be nicer to us. Hey, it worked for our gullible primitive ancestors .... |
| Posted by: gorb 2012-02-28 22:14 |
| #10 Hey, I just found out that on 2-5-2040, on my birthday party day, we gonna get smacked. |
| Posted by: Dale 2012-02-28 22:06 |
| #9 Everything causes Climate Change and Climate Change causes everything. And all famous dead people were gay. Probably because of Climate Change... |
| Posted by: tu3031 2012-02-28 21:22 |
| #8 Climate Change - is there anything it can't do ?(other than not fool the non-gullible) |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2012-02-28 20:42 |
| #7 Over the last ten years clouds have been lower worldwide. Magnetic northpole has also moved 40k/year. That could cause some stress. |
| Posted by: Dale 2012-02-28 19:31 |
| #6 Are you climate munchkins at it again? Did you know that every fiber of you being is FRAUD? FOAD PUNKS |
| Posted by: newc 2012-02-28 13:03 |
| #5 The fact that it makes no sense whatsoever "reflects a failure of our imagination". Wow. That statement would make even a Soviet propagandist blush. |
| Posted by: Iblis 2012-02-28 09:51 |
| #4 On a related note, the Sun has been particularly active of late, so things should be warming up soon. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2012-02-28 08:57 |
| #3 Somehow our ancestors made it through the last big ice age up till now. Ingenious of them to develop all those heavy industries and automobiles and figure out domestication of animals to melt all that ice cap. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2012-02-28 08:51 |
| #2 Every disaster is Global Warming. It is truly a religion. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2012-02-28 08:44 |
| #1 "Render unto Caesar the power to micromanage your lives or the world will end." Yah. And I'm R2-D2. |
| Posted by: Korora 2012-02-28 08:24 |