Comments on: You knew it was coming: Global warming causes 5X deadlier quakes

By: Bilby

Bilby — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 00:16:00 +0000

Here’s something from New Scientist last September:

Climate change may trigger earthquakes and volcanoes

FAR from being the benign figure of mythology, Mother Earth is short-tempered and volatile. So sensitive in fact, that even slight changes in weather and climate can rip the planet’s crust apart, unleashing the furious might of volcanic eruptions, earthquakes and landslides.

That’s the conclusion of the researchers who got together last week in London at the conference on Climate Forcing of Geological and Geomorphological Hazards. It suggests climate change could tip the planet’s delicate balance and unleash a host of geological disasters. What’s more, even our attempts to stall global warming could trigger a catastrophic event (see “Bury the carbon”).

By: chemman

chemman — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 22:46:25 +0000

Here’s my hypothesis: It is all that extra CO2 in the atmosphere and ocean. The extra mass is pushing down on the plates causing them to rupture. I’d like my million dollar grant now to study this idea. Oops I’m a chemist not a geologist. Guess I’m sol.

By: Editor

Editor — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 19:01:52 +0000

Thanks for pointing out our screwup in pointing to a two-year old story. We just added this to the top of the article:

Okay, we screwed up. This is a 2008 story and we didn’t catch it before publishing. But, we’ll leave it up, to show climate change scientists how to publicly admit when your research is wrong.

By: glitermama

glitermama — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 18:43:35 +0000

mel64d too funny too!

By: glitermama

glitermama — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 18:42:44 +0000

This is insane and “ihatethemedia”…too too funny!

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 18:30:06 +0000

Climate Audit covered this two years ago. They said “CBSnews.com and other outlets have dropped the story from their Science headlines and have erased it. ” Apparently you stumbled upon a stray copy.

http://climateaudit.org/2008/06/18/earthquakes-and-global-warming/

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 18:25:05 +0000

Your link is to CBS not ABC. It is a two year old AP story. I found the “research paper” here:

http://nujournal.net/EarthquakeEnergyRise.pdf

Does not look to be a mainstream journal. This does show what a poor job mainstream media can do with science reporting.

By: J_M

J_M — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 18:17:58 +0000

Not that anyone is surprised but this guy is a complete nut job and CBS has already been called out on it.

http://scienceblogs.com/greengabbro/2008/06/someone_punkd_the_cbs_science.php

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By: Katabasis

Katabasis — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 17:51:35 +0000

I really thought that link was going to take me to the Onion or the Daily Mash. This is simply unbelievable.

“NASA measurements from space confirm that Earth as a whole absorbs at least 0.85 Megawatt per square kilometer more energy from the Sun than it is able to radiate back to space.”

If the good doctor hasn’t figured out what happens to most of this solar energy, and why we’d all be dead if the earth radiated back as much as it received then I think perhaps he needs to check himself into a clinic, or restart school.