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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Another comedian mentioned in the article is Jasper Knight of Exeter University.
http://www.exeter.ac.uk/cornwall/academic_departments/geography/research/staff-and-research-profiles/jasper_knight.shtml
He seems qualified.
So what is he doing putting his name along side the insurance charlatans?
http://www.exeter.ac.uk/cornwall/academic_departments/geography/postgraduate-programmes/CHICKS_studentship.shtml
ESRC CASE funded PhD Studentship University of Exeter Business School.
Thomas J. Arnold. (11:24:06) :
The ESCR isn’t exactly “motley.
The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills. (BIS) is a UK government department. BIS was formed on 5 June 2009 by merging DIUS and BERR.
http://www.dius.gov.uk/about_us/budget2009
Their total budget is not all that clear but the 203 million the ESCR gets is a fair chunk of 260 million.
So we have a largely government funded organization funding a reinsurance group who’s brief it is to peddle the worse possible junk science to a tabloid news paper.
Jasper Knight of Exeter University has by his statements gone along with the imminent disaster theme of McGuire.
Jasper Knight is a referee for several international journals. So much for peer review.
Thanks for a full box load of ribbing ammo to fire at those dubious ex UC and Oxon geos next time I meet them!
I hope you are not suggesting that there is something “wrong” with ONN. (given the article under debate, from a supposedly “serious” MSM outlet)
Now then, John, “stress and other negative factors seem to disrupt the uniformity, coherence and the magnitude of the human electro-photonic glow measured with bio-electrography”.
I didn’t want to be the one to point it out, but the preceeding is now the political centre ground. You are right-wing. Accept your new position (together with your new found human electro-photonic glow) and wear it with pride.
And finally … every time you go to the Guardian and add a comment (or even a hit) next weeks graph at the “we are [self snip]ed, where do we go from here” meeting proves conclusively that publishing garbage is better than news. AGW D&G Garbage = 10,000,000 hits, earthquake kills 000’s in somewhere we don’t know or go = 20,000 hits. What do the advertisers want? It is a cynical last gasp for much of the MSM.
The only silver lining I can see in this is that much of the MSM will die a long and painful death as we all go elsewhere for “news n views”. Help them out – don’t go there. It is morally wrong to keep them on life support.
and.. as an aside (and really finally) …
I remember a time when Guardian readers cluttered MP’s mail/Guardian news desk phones because of a full page published plan to get milder winters and cooler summers for the UK. The plan went along the lines of detonating truly massive Hydrogen bombs in the Arctic and thereby reducing Earth “wobble”. IIRC there was a large diagram illustrating how the plan would work. Nothing much changes eh?
(BTW it was April 1 1986 IIRC)
For those of you mocking the UK, it may be coming to a cinema near you sooner than you think.
This page is yet another validation of the recent study showing how people trust scientists, but not their conclusions.
John F. Hultquist:
>Cold leads to snow and storage of H2O in glacial ice. Glaciers grind rock into “rock flour” >which is spread about during melt season and blown about during the freeze-up season.
And the rock flour blows into the oceans and provides minerals that aid the growth of algea. This pulls CO2 from the atmosphere and makes things cooler.
Imagine if you lived in Holland at the hight of the Tulip Craze (February 1637) REF: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulip_mania
And you had invested your life savings in a shed full of Tulips… You would be making all sorts of crazy statements to (1) Justify the purchase, and to (2) sell the tulips onto the next fool.
These climate scientists have invested their professional careers and livelihoods into the notion that man made emissions of CO2 are destroying the planet/civilization/life etc… – and yet the hard data evidence is not playing along.
It’s no wonder that they are making more desperate, and outrageous statements as the “consensus” breaks down around them.
>anomaly
I think a better term would be “residual” as that term is used in statistics.
The approach used makes the implicit claim that the multi-year seasonal average explains all of the variation in the various time series. The amount by whch a value differs from the predicted is called the “residual error” or usually just “residual”.
WestHoustonGeo (02:43:19) :
Global Warming responsible for male-pattern baldness, erectile disfunction, middle age spread, menopausal hot flashes, vericose veins, cellulite, arthritis, near-sighteness, dyslexia, ADHD, restless leg syndrom, the seven year itch and halitosis!
Come on, everyone, join in with your favorite malady caused by global warming
You forgot Boils, Sprains,Broken Legs and Bunions
“Man made emissions of CO2 invite Annihilation by Alien Attack!”
It’s fully described in the recent movie “The day the Earth Stood Still” REF:http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0970416/
No Kidding – it’s from Hollywood – it must be TRUE.
“Man Made Emissions of CO2 Accelerate the Force of Gravity – Impending Black Hole Doom!”
“It has been recently reported in “Science” that man made emissions of CO2 are causing the Force of Gravity to become stronger. This new global affect will continue to accelerate in line with CO2 emissions until a tipping point is reached and the Earth implodes into a black hole.”
The studies author, Professor Andy Nuttur, of the Climate Institute of Brussels had this to say when contacted by this reporter.
“The heaviest animals will be more cruelly affected by the growth in gravity as gravity affects heavy objects more than light ones. This means that Polar Bears which often weigh more than 500 kg will not survive. Young polar bears orphaned by the crushing deaths of their parents will slowly starve to death.”
Climate models have been quickly tuned to the new gravity affect and as Climate Modeller Peta Bitte from the prestigious London College of Climate Modelling had this to say.
“This is worse than we thought. This new gravity affect linked to man made emissions of CO2 is accelerating the impacts of Climate Change in new and devastating ways. Our models show that a gravity tipping point will soon be reached, and that our opportunities to do something to stop this catastrophy will not last beyond 2009.”
After contacting our Minister for Climate, Mr Myron Interest, a statement has been issued by the Ministry, as follows.
“It is imperative that an agreement for binding and comprehensive reductions in CO2 emissions is agreed by all parties at the upcoming Copenhagen Conference. The time to act is now. Further delay would be negligent and would border on criminal. I urge all constituents to actively lobby their members of parliament to ensure that the right decisions are made to ensure the future safety of the world and future generations of all life on this fragile and sacred planet.”
/parody
Pete (16:16:15) :
WestHoustonGeo (02:43:19) :
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Come on, everyone, join in with your favorite malady caused by global warming
You forgot Boils, Sprains,Broken Legs and Bunions
A plague of frogs and fish raining from the sky.
So, eastern Canada and northern USA should be a hotbed of earthquakes because of the isostatic rebound from the last glacial age. Look out! Chicago and NYC, there just may be a volcano brewing just below the surface 😀
This was the highlight of my day. I’m glad someone finally made the Ghostbusters allusion…real Biblical stuff here!
Over at National Review Online, on Planet Gore, one of the guys noted an article that said that lion attacks on humans will go up as a result of global warming. So now we can cue Dorothy chanting, “Lions, tigers and bears, oh my!”
I’m thinking all of this rubbish is nothing more than “mine is bigger than yours” gone hideously out of control… seems that the more outlandish or ridiculous the claim, the bigger the “oo-er”.
Or maybe it’s a cleverly calculated experiment in seeing how far they can go before the MSM actually explodes from the internally generated pressure?
Sigh.
JLKrueger (02:38:46) :
Ever notice how when one of these really insane AGW stories comes up, the warmists seem slow to defend their own? (I guess I mean more insane than usual.) Where’s Flanagan?
REPLY: In Brussels, he’s sprouting alarmism there. 😉
Hmmm. Sprouts or Spouts? (At least you know that I’m paying attention to what you write.)
If he is Brussels it would be sprouts…
Graeme Rodaughan (17:04:35) :
“Man Made Emissions of CO2 Accelerate the Force of Gravity – Impending Black Hole Doom!”
After contacting our Minister for Climate, Mr Myron Interest, a statement has been issued by the Ministry, as follows.
/parody
Not all Myron’s are goofy.
I just found out (Open Passages Expedition) that the Arctic has 2m diameter jellyfish with 35m stinging tentacles. When Global Warming makes it warm enough to swim there, these will “very likely” be a menace!
Best,
Frank
pls (16:08:22) :
>anomaly
I think a better term would be “residual” as that term is used in statistics.
The approach used makes the implicit claim that the multi-year seasonal average explains all of the variation in the various time series. The amount by whch a value differs from the predicted is called the “residual error” or usually just “residual”.
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Residuals are differences from a least-squares fit. These anomalies are usually just differences from a baseline value or from a linear trend.
This new gravity effect linked to man made emissions of CO2 is accelerating the impacts of Climate Change in new and devastating ways.
IT’S MUTATING!!! oo
Myron Mesecke (19:41:20) :
Graeme Rodaughan (17:04:35) :
“Man Made Emissions of CO2 Accelerate the Force of Gravity – Impending Black Hole Doom!”
After contacting our Minister for Climate, Mr Myron Interest, a statement has been issued by the Ministry, as follows.
/parody
Not all Myron’s are goofy.
If any offense was given – I apologise. The name “Myron Interest” is meant to imply “My Interest” I.e. a Self Interested Politician…
I suppose that I better watch out for all the Andys and Petas out there…
I thought I’ve heard everything but this takes the cake for the most lunatic scenario extant. They have gone quite mad – and what’s worse, they have political control as well.
This is all in preparation for the Climate Forcing of Geological Hazards Conference.
This is a very prestigious University College London conference with highly competitive scientific papers from all over the world.
This video shows upper class British scientific finalists competing at last years conference
“E.M.Smith (12:08:55) :
Patrick Davis (03:43:15) : And here in Australia, Senator Fielding, the only senator to be bucking the political trend with regards to an ETS, apparently, suffered in his youth and still suffers “learning difficlties”!!!!!”
Good post. I only mentioned this in passing as it appears politicians and the media (No surprise there) appear, at least to me, picking on him for his admission (And possibly on his position on AGW and an ETS) and the fact his son suffers the same or similar condition. I too suffered from dyslexia, still do, and for being told off many times for asking “Why?” too many times at skewl.
When did Chicken Little join the IPCC?
And, yes Virginia, AGW can do anything and everything. No matter what we all know is it’s much worse than we think!