You can’t make this stuff up. It’s worse than we thought. Related: Why the Greenland and Antarctic Ice Sheets are Not Collapsing
Climate change: melting ice will trigger wave of natural disasters
Scientists at a London conference next week will warn of earthquakes, avalanches and volcanic eruptions as the atmosphere heats up and geology is altered. Even Britain could face being struck by tsunamis
Robin McKie The Observer, Sunday 6 September 2009
Scientists are to outline dramatic evidence that global warming threatens the planet in a new and unexpected way – by triggering earthquakes, tsunamis, avalanches and volcanic eruptions.
Reports by international groups of researchers – to be presented at a London conference next week – will show that climate change, caused by rising outputs of carbon dioxide from vehicles, factories and power stations, will not only affect the atmosphere and the sea but will alter the geology of the Earth.
Melting glaciers will set off avalanches, floods and mud flows in the Alps and other mountain ranges; torrential rainfall in the UK is likely to cause widespread erosion; while disappearing Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets threaten to let loose underwater landslides, triggering tsunamis that could even strike the seas around Britain.
At the same time the disappearance of ice caps will change the pressures acting on the Earth’s crust and set off volcanic eruptions across the globe. Life on Earth faces a warm future – and a fiery one.
“Not only are the oceans and atmosphere conspiring against us, bringing baking temperatures, more powerful storms and floods, but the crust beneath our feet seems likely to join in too,” said Professor Bill McGuire, director of the Benfield Hazard Research Centre, at University College London (UCL).
“Maybe the Earth is trying to tell us something,” added McGuire, who is one of the organisers of UCL’s Climate Forcing of Geological Hazards conference, which will open on 15 September. Some of the key evidence to be presented at the conference will come from studies of past volcanic activity. These indicate that when ice sheets disappear the number of eruptions increases, said Professor David Pyle, of Oxford University’s earth sciences department.
“The last ice age came to an end between 12,000 to 15,000 years ago and the ice sheets that once covered central Europe shrank dramatically,” added Pyle. “The impact on the continent’s geology can by measured by the jump in volcanic activity that occurred at this time.”
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Armageddon is near! The day of judgement is coming!
The only way to escape this is to regret your sins and to give all your money to us!
These knuckleheaded climate scientists are really desperate.
lol, just lol
Wow, from the ill-understood climatology to the even lesser-understood seismology. Surely they know it all don’t they. It is so easy to be a scientist these days; just throw out the most catastrophic prediction for 2100 and you’ll be famous and keep the funding rolling. No one will likely live long enough to see the validity of the claims anyways. Which Dr. Peikle Sr. just wrote an excellent discussion about this corruption of the scientific process.
http://pielkeclimatesci.wordpress.com/2009/09/07/another-paper-that-short-curcuits-the-scientific-method-gangulya-et-al-2009-in-the-proceedings-of-the-national-academy-of-sciences/
Is there nothing that they cant blame on global warming? Oh the humanity!!
Not long ago, scientists were cautious, modest and aware of how much they did not know.
Nowadays they run about screaming about speculative doom laden events based on half baked imagined scenarios.
When did they all turn into 5 year old schoolchildren ?
Should anyone keep listening to them ?
Should we vote for any politician who relies on their judgements ?
Come to that, where are the intelligent politicians ?
It seems that over 60 years of relative stability and prosperity in the world has led to universal brain rot in our ruling establishments.
Majority of the Ice at the Arctic is floating, so this will do what now to the earths crust if it melts? Did these “Scientists” purchase their degrees online for 12.99 plus 12 tokens from Kelloggs Corn Flakes?
Copenhagen here we come!
You could try commenting on this on the Guardian website, however if you don’t agree with the party line you will be out of luck.
How long before raised CO2 levels have an effect on the Earth’s orbit around the sun, or on the sun itself?
Meanwhile in the real world, expect total sea ice (NH and SH) to reach a record high (in satellite era) in late October. Annoying for the warmists, the ice doesn’t listen to propoganda.
Must become a Hollywood Film Script or was that what it was anyway?
“while disappearing Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets ”
Can someone who uses the words ‘disapperaring’ and ‘Antarctic ice sheet’ really call themselves a scientist?
Does evidence even matter any more?
Just thinking, all of the aerosols that the volcanoes produce when they go off should cool the planet again. Maybe this is the way forward after all!
I’m not sure that these pose problems as we will be well and truely fried by then if the UK Climate Projections published last month are true.
These are reported to “show that if we don’t take action by 2080 the temperature for the hottest day of the year in the West Midlands could increase by a scorching 100 C by 2080 … ”
http://nds.coi.gov.uk/clientmicrosite/Content/Detail.aspx?ClientId=416&NewsAreaId=2&ReleaseID=404755&SubjectId=36
I think that there should be a competition to see who can come up with the most looney and desperate alarmist ‘suggestion’ of what Climate Change will/or may (two categories) bring. Each of the suggestions entered in this competition should be published in a science paper or journal which is peer reviewed. Authors and reveiwers should be clearly named. Perhaps a week holiday at any tropical beach resort at the south pole could be offered as a prize.
This is possibly good news. Remember when the alarmists started claiming that global warming causes bigger hurricanes in 2005? We suddenly started seeing less and smaller hurricanes. Maybe this announcement will make us see less earthquakes and tsunamis!
Oh good God, we really have entered the age of stupid alright!
I’ve hardly ever read such complete and utter nonsense. As a geologist this garbage angers me. I don’t know where these guys learnt their geology but it wasn’t from the same rocks as the ones that I’ve studied over the years.
“You can’t make this stuff up. ”
Well, somebody did.
I can absolutely not believe the level of idiocy these days in the journalism profession. Have they not noticed that this year’s Arctic ice is greater than last year’s; or that last year’s is greater than the year before?
What total tools. I will tell you how this stuff gets reported like this. I will share a secret. I was married to a journalist for 10 years. What happens is that the reporter receives a “press package” with the story already written for them. It is done by a professional PR agency, often an agency that specializes on “progressive” causes like Fenton Communications in the US.
They might be given a list of individuals who would be available for interview or if there is an event or “protest”, they are given a press liaison contact. If they attend the event and make contact with the liaison, they will be given a “press packet” there that gives the “correct” background information. They will be briefed and explained to them what the importance of various things are and guided to the best locations for photographs and possibly be directed to key individuals for comments.
It is the difference between a photograph and a painting. Journalist means you write things down. It is different than being a reporter and digging for facts. The truth is many “journalists” are lazy and more interested in hanging out with the “cool people” so they can count themselves among them.
In laying out what “scientists will warn of” next week, he had to have been given access to the press packet. He is likely re-stating what was dropped on his desk.
“Maybe the Earth is trying to tell us something,”
A fine piece of “emotionalizing” there. Earth is a rock. A really big rock. If rocks are taking to you, maybe you need to up your dosage.
I am sick of this nonsense.
Thanks. This is one for the bookmarks. A talking point and citation high up on my list.
Meanwhile:
“…add this gem from New Zealand: According to a parliamentary committee, Kiwis should accept lower standards of living to protect the national image abroad.”
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB30001424052970203440104574397112556058826.html
Like Anthony said, you can’t make this stuff up!
It’s not April 1st is it?
“If rocks are taking to you”
Meant “if rocks are talking to you” … or maybe your dosage is too high already. Might want to get some professional help in either case. Earth doesn’t “talk” to anyone.
I am losing hope for western european society.
This will be taken seriousley.
When it gets cooler, or stays the same, it will be blamed on global warming “in the pipeline”.
This is not the only sign of a civilization in suicidal self decline.
I am lucky, I have family and property in Asia where they get on with life.
In the west, I hope America at least sees sense.
In reading the readers’ comments at the Guardian, the hysteria is worse than we thought too.
Don’t appear to be too many skeptic comments surviving the “moderator’s knife” either.
This really is desperation, isn’t it? Its like the Enron accountant, who vainly propped up his company by producing ever more fictitious profits. Like Enron, the Greens will eventually run out of scare stories that anyone believes, and their empire will crash, burn and disappear without trace.
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Besides, the great story in the Sunday Times last week was that volcanos are exactly what we want, to reduce Global Warming.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article6814912.ece
Ok, so let me get this straight. The solution to Global Warming is now the problem; so the original problem can never be solved because the solution is worse that the problem.
Is it just me??
This is why I inhabit this site, because it is an island of rationality and logic in an ever-increasing sea of hysteria and propaganda. Their shrill cries make me think the entire world has gone mad – but how have they done this? How have they bewitched an entire generation?
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“said Professor Bill McGuire, director of the Benfield Hazard Research Centre, at University College London (UCL).”
The clue is in the name!
More warmist ridiculae from the UK:
It’s official! Warmism is now a religion recognised by British Law.
http://eureferendum.blogspot.com/2009/09/barking.html
Pass me a bucket someone, I need to vomit…
How can educated people be so gullible? We read “Will change…”, “Will not only affect…”, “Will show that…” These people have been looking too long and too hard at National Geographic and Discovery Channels, who have no qualms whatever about presenting a host of theories to our kids and grandchildren as established fact. These scientists are being brainwashed, exactly like the kids. We seem to be living in an age where remote theory, when the gang find it to be acceptably good-sounding, is swiftly melded into being established fact.
Geoff Alder