Sunday, April 18, 2010

Nature.com article suggests that trace amounts of CO2 cause volcanic activity, earthquakes, landslides and tsunamis

The Great Beyond: Can climate change make the bed rock?
In the keynote review, McGuire writes, “Periods of exceptional climate change in Earth history are associated with a dynamic response from the geosphere.” Responses include volcanic activity, earthquakes, landslides, tsunamis, glacial outbursts, rock-dam failure floods, debris flows, and destabilizations of gas-hydrates, which are crystalline solids consisting of gas molecules encaged by water molecules. According to McGuire, anthropogenic climate change doesn’t just affect oceans and the atmosphere.

4 comments:

mike said...

or we could go back to sacrificing virgins. just as high probability of it making a difference.

Anonymous said...

Or maybe, volcanic activity, earthquakes, landslides, tsunamis, glacial outbursts, rock-dam failure floods and debris flows were associated with whatever caused those previous periods of climate change?

Like magnetic storms on the Sun, for (one) example?

Climatologists don't know what causes ice ages and the end of ice ages. Just ask them. It's a very rudimentary science, despite the fact that they use fancy computers.

Shrink Rat said...

Yup, them there volcanos just love virgins ... but they do cause indigestion; hence, eruptions.....

Anonymous said...

Nature ? thats the scientific periodical that Prof Jones, and the 'Boys' from the CRU have in their hip pocket, right ?