Professor İbrahim Özdemir is a UN advisor and an ecologist teaching at Üsküdar University: “On Monday, earthquakes in my country Turkey and neighboring Syria left a trail of unprecedented devastation and a death toll surpassing 16,000 people at the last count. We do not know for sure what triggered this horrific natural disaster, but we do know there is growing scientific evidence that climate change increases the risk of such tremors, together with tsunamis and volcanic eruptions.”
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By Prof İbrahim Özdemir, UN advisor – Professor İbrahim Özdemir is a UN advisor and an ecologist teaching at Üsküdar University. He has served as Director-General at the Department of Foreign Affairs of the Turkish Ministry of Education and was a leading member in drafting the Islamic Declaration on Global Climate Change endorsed by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, UNFCCC.
On Monday, earthquakes in my country Turkey and neighboring Syria left a trail of unprecedented devastation and a death toll surpassing 16,000 people at the last count.
We do not know for sure what triggered this horrific natural disaster, but we do know there is growing scientific evidence that climate change increases the risk of such tremors, together with tsunamis and volcanic eruptions.
“If a fault is primed or ready to rupture, all that is needed is the pressure of a handshake to set if off […] Environmental changes associated with rapid and accelerating climate breakdown could easily do the job,” professor of geophysics and climate hazards at University College London Bill McGuire pointed out back in 2012.
Furthermore, NASA scientists acknowledged that glaciers retreating due to global warming have been triggering earthquakes in Alaska in the last decades.
The impact is not limited to the Arctic. As melting glaciers change the distribution of weight across the Earth’s crust, the resulting “glacial isostatic adjustment” drives changes in plate tectonics that could lead to more earthquakes, awaken volcanoes and even affect the movement of the Earth’s axis.
This particular consequence of global warming “warns us of a seismically turbulent future,” one recent study concluded.
Unfortunately, it is not just earthquakes. Climate and weather-related disasters have surged five-fold over the past five decades, killing over two million people, with 91% of the casualties in developing countries. And it is only getting worse.
Is there accountability for Big Oil’s ‘ever more invasive ways’?
Fossil fuel companies bear significant responsibility for the climate emergency yet enjoy near-total impunity. At the same time, they are consistently reaping record profits — while ordinary citizens across the globe struggle to pay their household bills.
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What is more important: interests of few, or our planet and its people?
I am not suggesting a conspiracy. These cases solely go to show how fossil fuel interests still hold extraordinary clout across sectors and national borders, despite ever-increasing proof that they are among those ultimately responsible for climate change and the ongoing climate emergency.
The problem is systemic: there is a long-demonstrated preference for the interests of fossil fuel firms and their allies rather than the people and the planet.
No wonder UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres recently demanded that fossil fuel companies that do not set a “credible course for net zero” by 2030 “should not be in business”.
Governments must take this message seriously by joining forces to end this giant profit-making scheme against the planet.
How? Instead of being sued by them, governments should consider whether and how to hold fossil fuel firms liable for the damages their operations have caused to countless victims worldwide. The potential proceeds should be then invested in accelerating net zero.
Otherwise, we will see more tragedies like what has befallen my country.
Professor İbrahim Özdemir is a UN advisor and an ecologist teaching at Üsküdar University. He has served as Director-General at the Department of Foreign Affairs of the Turkish Ministry of Education and was a leading member in drafting the Islamic Declaration on Global Climate Change endorsed by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, UNFCCC.
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Related:
2022 Study: Long-Term Forecasting of Strong Earthquakes in North America, South America, Japan, Southern China and Northern India With Machine Learning – “Earthquakes of great intensity that are caused by natural processes cannot be avoided but only forewarned with their often catastrophic and damaging impacts minimized.”
Warmists have long history of blaming earthquakes on AGW!
Flashback: More Mega Earthquakes in a Climate Changed World Say Scientists’
Flashback: Actor Danny Glover links Haitian earthquake to global warming?
2015: Newsweek: More earthquakes coming due to ‘climate change’ – AGW ‘can affect the underlying structure of the Earth’– UCL’s Professor Bill McGuire’s recent book Waking the Giant: How a Changing Climate Triggers Earthquakes, Tsunamis and Volcanoes, he ponders the effects of the 100m rise of sea-levels that’s threatened should all the remaining ice on the planet melt.’
It’s the ebb and flow of rainwater in the great river deltas of India and Bangladesh, and the pressure that puts on the grinding plates that make up the surface of the planet. Recently discovered, that causal factor is seen by a growing body of scientists as further proof that climate change can affect the underlying structure of the Earth.
Because of this understanding, a series of life-threatening “extreme geological events” – earthquakes, volcanoes and tsunamis – is predicted by a group of eminent geologists and geophysicists including University College London’s Bill McGuire, professor emeritus of Geophysical and Climate Hazards. “Climate change may play a critical role in triggering certain faults in certain places where they could kill a hell of a lot of people,” says Professor McGuire. Some of his colleagues suspect the process may already have started.
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UN IPCC AR5 co-ordinating lead author Prof. Oliver C Ruppel blames global warming for earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and tsunamis ocruppel@unam.na– Ruppel: ‘There is wide scientific consensus that the increased number and intensity of climate change induced natural disasters, such as earthquakes, volcano eruptions, tsunamis and hurricanes, is of alarming concern’
Our SUVs cause earthquakes?! Volcanoes Erupt When Ice Melts– ‘After studying data from over a million years in our Earth’s history, researchers at GEOMAR Helmholtz Center for Ocean Research Kiel in Germany and Harvard University have discovered periods of high volcanic activity often follow periods of quickly rising global temperatures’
UK Government adviser Bill McGuire says global warming is causing earthquakes and landslides– ‘Global warming is causing earthquakes and giant landslides, and could bring about an age of ‘geological havoc’ including ‘volcano storms’ and tsunamis, a top academic told the Telegraph’
Geophysicist argues that global warming causes earthquakes and volcano eruptions
New Paper Finds That Even Seismic Activity Correlates Better With Warming Than CO2!
‘A partial explanation may lie in the fact that in the last 20 years, we have definitely had an increase in number of earthquakes we have been able to locate each year. This is because of the tremendous increase in the number of seismograph stations in the world and the many improvements in global communications’
UK Guardian jumps the shark – claims climate change CAN cause earthquakes, volcanos and tsunamis– Warmists now claim everything caused by AGW: ‘Could it be then, that if we continue to allow greenhouse gas emissions to rise unchecked and fuel serious warming, our planet’s crust will begin to toss and turn once again?’
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because AI said so.
There’s growing scientific evidence that global warming is no threat to the penguin population, too (see the 350-pound models whose fossilized skeletons show that they flourished when the earth was much warmer than today).
But Professor Osdemir should really check the historic record, and regard all the mighty earthquakes which have occurred before global warming was invented. Turkey is zoned for them.
The only things growing because of CO2 are plants and irrational superstition.
Earthquake prediction is so poorly understood that the topic should be studied – as a demonstration of the stupidity of time series analysis with inadequate data.
Earthquakes are an example of why attribution to climate change reveals inadequate data and so teaches also that hurricanes, floods, droughts, heatwaves and plagues of locusts cannot be scientifically attributed to climate change. For that you need mechanisms and predictions, both of which are lacking in these disasters. Geoff S
Yep, all to do with CO2 and nothing to do with coming out of the LIA
I can only assume this guy is grieving, which is understandable, but he needs to row back quickly
The same question as before. WHERE THE HELL ARE THE REAL SCIENTISTS AND WHY DON’T THEY SPEAK UP?
If they do, not they are ultimately to blame for people even entertaining the thought of believing in this garbage.
Don’t need scientists for this sort of garbage propaganda. It’s stinks so bad I am surprised that anyone who reads the article can’t smell it’s stench.
Seriously?, He is a Professor advising the UN…? That explains a lot. No wonder the UN’s IPCC are struggling to explain the gulf between real world observations, versus their preferred ‘advised’ model projections.
Can’t be long now, before ‘man made climate change’ is accused of triggering asteroid impacts.
With any luck, the next asteroid impact will land on the next COP “climate” bullshit-fest or WEF “summit.”
Just checked the calendar again to confirm. No, it is not April 1st so that doesn’t explain it.
There is growing evidence that professos aren’t worth the titel they are so proud of.
He forgot to mention the plagues of frogs.
the disaster was compounded by buildings built in contravention of Turkish official standards required in the earth quake zone. I believe over one hundered building contractors etc are being taken to court for these violations since the earthquake struck.
Everything in and above the crust is displacing its own mass in magma…
Totally shameless rascals.
I don’t think I’ve ever read so much incontinent drivel in one short article in my entire life
Well, there is just about any quote from Gore on “climate change.”
Or any quote at all from Kamala or Justin.
So it has nothing to do with construction companies ignoring the building regulations for earthquake areas having paid off the right people and in expectation that Erdogan will issue another bunch of construction amnesties to get them off the hook? Or that it is common practice when revamping the ground floor of a tower block for retail use to cut away all those annoying concrete columns that get in the way – I mean, what could possibly go wrong? And then the country has the nerve to ask others to bail them out for their corruption and stupidity.
It’s hysterical. I bet climate change causes migraines too.
Earthquakes are the result of plate tectonics, and plate tectonics have been in action for billions of years. If pressure builds up to a certain point such that an earthquake will be the result, there is nothing that humanity can do to delay that fact, or cause that fact.
This is yet another in the drearily long long of unfalsefiable claims about global warming, which by the way has been underway for the last 2.6 million years, with eras of cooling and warming interspersed over timeframes of many tens of thousands of years each.
If pressure builds up to a certain point such that an earthquake will be the result, there is nothing that humanity can do to delay that fact … but there may be things humanity can do to bring it on sooner. Sooner means weaker. Could save a lot of lives (but do strengthen the building standards too).
Well, it is certainly debatable as to whether humans can make any meaningful impact at all on earthquake timing.
BTW – the most destructive earthquakes in the last two decades have epicenters in or near the nations having the least amount of oil and gas production including fracking… including Turkey last week (ranked 58th in world oil production), Japan (non-existent oil and gas production), Haiti, and China. If these horrible earthquakes were happening in major oil production regions, like West Texas or Saudi Arabia or Kuwait, this guy might have had a point to make. But he didn’t.
Who knew that some faults are so close to the critical stress level that a handshake could set them off.
Is there really any evidence of glacial rebound causing large scale destructive earthquakes?
There is strong correlation with the number of bad calls deciding Superbowl games and climate change. Clearly, climate change is causing these bad umpire calls.
Didn’t Danny Glover blame the Haiti earthquake back in 2010 on global warming?
Interesting, I’ll look it up.
They accept cash, check or crypto when a fool with other people’s money is parted.
Climate Change is certainly making natural disasters such as earthquakes much more lethal.
All the money wasted on climate change could have provided for much more resilient housing, and much better emergency services…
At least the new axis countries will have plenty of cover when WW3 gets rolling.
as i recall from my psych studies in college , all children go thru a developmental stage called immanent justice which generally disappears by adolescence . immanent justice is the belief that ones bad actions cause bad things to happen to you in return . the belief that “ the universe “ is animate and judgmental and will get you for your wrongdoing is hard to overcome
those behind the islamic declaration with their hands out for reparations had best remember that the islamic world would be woefully poorer if drained of its fossil fuel wealth . not that those countries would ever even consider such things . any country , including norway , with significant fossil fuel resources ghosts the UN
Actions have consequences. Seems eminently sensible to me.
That seems to me to be a very good survival strategy for a vulnerable human living on the African savannah. Just because the lions have gone doesn’t mean that there are no longer any predators around you.
The grand solar minimum of 1250-1195 BC and the grand solar minimum from 350 AD (early antique little ice age) both had a series of catastrophe great earthquakes around the Mediterranean which destroyed many cities. That’s the real evidence.
The evidence is that both these solar minimums triggered cooling periods and that the CO2 rate in the atmosphere was half the one we have today.
It is amazing how the entire green movement is silent when nonsense like this is released to the public. The radicals will shamelessly leverage the suffering of victims to propel their propaganda campaign. These green carpetbaggers are heartless and scary! Money makes good people do stupid bad things. So who are the deep pockets paying for this nonsense and why are they not exposed?
I have been a liberal democrat and pro-environment since the early 1970’s….but the new radicalism has left me cold (New Wave Fascism (militarism is now the covert weaponization of information and tech) or hybrid-socialism. Who knows what it actually is for real, everyone is leveraging everyone in a game of smoke and mirrors).
I recognized early on the global warming was a political movement with very weak science and could not support it as a political movement. Now it has morph’d into something else entirely that ain’t science.
Maybe honest intelligent liberals are a afraid to speak up against nonsense propaganda. I can’t believe they are all misinformed or so ready to make commitments based on consensus, ad hominem and bad information. I guess I could be totally wrong.
Maybe honest intelligent liberals are a afraid to speak up against nonsense propaganda.
It’s not just on this topic, seems to be happening across the board because the fanatic activists rabidly attack them.
Then we all lose representative power to nasty idiots.