Wow, just wow. “He said:
“We are going to get climate chaos. Are we going to have geological havoc added to it? Climate change is already driving more earthquakes and giant landslides in some parts of the world.”
Full story at :
What can you say when somebody goes off the rails like this?
h/t to Barry Woods
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Unfortunately I must correct myself again. It is possible for earthquakes to be caused by melting. For example if all the ice in Antarctica melted that would likely cause significant earthquakes which would not occur if the ice remained constant. Of course I realize that all the ice in Antarctica can’t melt anytime soon, if ever.
He’s only one letter away from doing so. (He’s saying the rupture is the fault of AGW.)
Here’s where he may have got the idea:
Anthony Watts said on June 5, 2012 at 2:20 pm:
It’s actually the raptors coming to the windmills combating CAGW, but close enough for government work.
Wow, obviously the answer for this kind of intellectual training deficit is for Universities to require students that manage to avoid Calculus and a rigorous Math concentration to take a course in Logic and Semantics and at least one other philosophy course. Of course telling Professor McGuire that he needs to take a couple 100 and 200 level course could start a “volcano storm” all on it’s own.
And Chicken Little said the sky was falling oh, hold on, they are both British fairy tails aren’t they
Anyone able to read the comments to the article?
For some reason I’ve had problems loading disqus at the Telly recently.
Reblogged this on ballisticpolitics and commented:
These people are just amazing. They think we’re so stupid that if they scattered gravel at our feet we’d peck at it.
Cut him some slack! We’re having a unique four-day national holiday, street parties, loads of beer and pop-concerts, thousands of hill-top bonfires and are celebrating a diamond jubilee despite the drizzle. With any luck the hippies over at Hay-on-Wye will do some chanting and wailing and dancing with the Druids and evoke summer. Reality will cut in next week as the Eurocrash tumbles and local councils block windfarms.
A couple of corrections to my 2.47pm post, if I may:
I see it is McKibben, ‘K’ not a ‘G’.
Telegraph article referred to actually dated 1st June, although I read it yesterday.
Apologies.
From the last paragraph:
“Most recent earthquakes, he added,had been caused by conventional geological activity, without any contribution from climate change, but global warming was likely to make things worse in future. ”
In other words, recent quakes have nothing to do with AGW but they might in the future.
I don’t believe any recent quakes were caused by crappy journalism either. But it could cause huge earthquakes in the future. Watch out California!
Is there no end to the stupidity the MSM will inflict upon us?
My My…imagine his excitement should ever find a turnip in the shape of the Virgin Mary…
Paging Pentti Linkola: The real tectonic shift is in McGuire’s dead brain.
For this statement Dr. McGuire needs to be brought infront of the House of Commons Science and Technology Committee. The government must be greatly concerned about these new developments?
Or is it just that they are on the road again!
i owe, I owe,
From Hay to Rio we go!
Bill McGuire’s words will be taken up as gospel and repeated. It won’t be any use trying to talk sense with those who will vehemently echo his remarks, as any such efforts will earn one a hate filled tirade.
@Green Sand
“The government must be greatly concerned about these new developments?”
The development being that a government science adviser appears to lost his mind.
Well, electoral landslides maybe.
People get sick and tired of the lies and taxes caused by AGW.
Anthony Watts asked: “What can you say when somebody goes off the rails like this?”
You could give some arguments, why you think it is impossible that global warming may cause earthquakes and landslides. For the experts here at WUWT it may be obvious why this is unthinkable, but I am not a seismologist. Unfortunately, now I only have the arguments from the Telegraph in favour of this possibility. To be able to form a better opinion some arguments against would be very much welcome.
Uk earthquakes
We have them all the time:
http://www.quakes.bgs.ac.uk/earthquakes/recent_uk_events.html
Another newspaper I won’t ever read or refer to again. Publishing rubbish like that is very very irresponsible and can not be justified however you want to contort the argument for doing so.
From rogerknights on June 5, 2012 at 2:53 pm:
Ha, that’s an old and long “Of course global warming causes or makes worse everything!” reply rant. Had to dig it up to remind myself what I wrote:
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/03/02/2001-2010-was-the-snowiest-decade-on-record/#comment-334255
Nice to see the “science” as presented to the public hasn’t changed much. They keep blaming, and blaming, and blaming, and looking crazy, and crazier, and crazier…
Prof Lenardic at Rice University/College in Houston (Earth Science) would appear to provide a numerical modeled basis to McGuires’ Revationesque view of Armageddon as lead author of this article ‘Hot Climate Could Shut Down Plate Tectonics’ (Rice University 2008, May 12). Can one suppose that there may have been a shortage of grant funding at the time, aside from any issues associated with plausibility or validation?
Apologies typo – this is all just getting to me – ‘Revelationesque’
Hopefully not OTT.(sorry if so)
From the Telegraphs comments section:
“Does this man’s carers know that he is out and about?”
In New Zealand you can have it both ways. Believe in global warming catastrophes AND build wind farms on fault lines!
http://nzwindfarms.wordpress.com/
OMG, there are even a few that are gullible.
If only warming caused earthquakes and landslides then there wouldn’t be any earthquakes and landslides when it was cooling. The Earth miles down below the land surface is much warmer than the surface.
Earthquakes are caused miles below the surface, how can a little fraction degree change on the surface have any affect miles down people, stop being so non scientific.
The difference between winter and summer temperatures are huge on the surface and they have no influence on earthquakes and landslides. For a start it would mean earthquakes could only occur in the summer too depending which hemisphere. Yet massive temperature changes have no noticeable affect on earthquakes, yet some insane actually think a fraction of degree does.