By P Gosselin on 30. March 2025
“There’s a link between the climate crisis and earthquakes,” former German Green Party leader suggests.
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Germany’s online Apollo News here reports on what Germany’s former Green Party leader, Simone Peter, suggests a cause of the huge earthquake in Southeast Asia: climate change.
And Europeans better worry about that, she adds!
According to Apollo, Ms. Peter bases her claim on an article that once appeared in the German leftist TAZ newspaper, which reported how a geologist speculated that melting of glaciers could possibly trigger earthquakes.
Ms. Peter reacted to the earthquake: “Wow, the massive quake in Myanmar and Thailand was also measurable in Europe.” … ‘“We know that earthquakes will continue to increase with the climate crisis, this is worrying for many parts of the world.”
“Geologists are increasingly in agreement that there is a link between the climate crisis and earthquakes,” she continued.
Peter’s claim are of course utterly preposterous as there are no glaciers anywhere near Thailand and Myanmar to begin with. Earthquakes are instead caused by moving tectonic plates that have been shifting for hundreds of millions of years.
If Peter’s claims haven’t convinced you by now that the “climate crisis” is a hoax perpetrated by greens and leftists, then nothing will. Consider yourself scientifically hopeless.
Real proof that to a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
It’s hard for me to imagine being so fixated on anything, not just climate catastrophes, that your first reaction to every piece of news is “climate change caused it!” Just cannot imagine focusing my every living moment on something like that. Dude, get a life! Go out and smell some roses.
Trump Derangement Syndrome is similar. Everything the Left doesn’t like is Trump’s fault.
Climate Change made you say that.
Has this post been published on the wrong date? April Fools’ Day is tomorrow.
Hmmm! Thirty days hath September, April, June, and November. All the rest have Thirty-one except for February. I believe April Fool’s is the day after tomorrow,
True, except here in the UK it’s 31 March 😉
But not in every time zone. In mine, it was still Sunday. If you said Tuesday or this Tuesday, you’d be more correct. In every time zone, I believe Tuesday is April first.
I hope I get lots of negative votes. It shows how many stupid people are on this website.
At least one is writing BS, you are right 🤣
What is it about those on the left and their unshakable conviction that they are the smartest people in any room. Despite all the evidence to the contrary.
Don’t worry about it, Jim.
I just gave you a negative vote. But only because it’s April Fools Day somewhere!
(Sometimes I think the fools can’t read a calendar.) 😎
Thanks, I think.
Endless search for flaws,
yet the grandest one remains—
the need to find them.
Those months missing days 29,30, and/or 31 are due to Climate Change!
But don’t you know that CO2 back-radiation enters 10km deep into ground?
😂🤣😁
Scientists say….
“Scientists” say….
I applaud your correction.
Then there’s the Presley song: “Tomorrow Never Comes.”
Google search on “hoax definition”
hoax: noun; a humorous or malicious deception.
Similar: practical joke, joke, jest, prank, trick, jape, ruse, deception
Fraud, scam, swindle etc. are more to the point.
From the linked article comments:
(badly translated by Google)
Well damn, and there I was thinking that I hadn’t tightened mine enough. I am struggling with this a bit though, because I can see the Pacific Ocean from where I’m typing, and it’s about a couple of thousand feet below me. Note to self ….. must re-educate myself on how water pressure/tap dripping works.
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This has shades of all the Indian and Chinese populations jumping off a chair at the same time story that used to go around 🙂
The physics is actually very easy to calculate and put the stupidity to bed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shell_theorem#Inside_a_shell
The gravity shell of earth extends quite a bit into space and read point 2 and it doesn’t matter where the location of the water is on the surface of Earth.
All true, but what do spherical shells have to do with water pressure? Also, I don’t think ocean pressure has anything to do with fresh water supply pressure–the two systems are isolated, or should be. (Usually a water tower supplies the pressure to a water supply system.)
As a (former) scuba diver, I know that the water pressure increases 1 atmosphere for every 33 feet of descent. A water barometer can only support a column of water of about 33 feet–depending on air pressure. It makes you wonder how trees can grow higher than 33 feet (they can because they don’t suck a single column).
The pressure is trying to crush you right where you are not move you a couple hundred meters up or down 🙂
You have fallen for the same layman error as the guy who made the comment Earthquakes are cause by movements of the crust. Movement is not about pressure but the force from one point to another within the crust to make it move. The pressure on an rock at any depth is identical to the piece next to it based simply on it’s depth from surface same as for you diving and extra pressure simply tries to crush you right where you are.
The crust under an earth quake doesn’t get crushed by pressure it moves do to force differences between points that build up for a number of reasons.
I wish you were speaking English. Your comment makes no sense.
1,) Earthquakes require crust movement up or down so that is your challenge you have to get a force to do that.
2.) You are familiar with water pressure and as you dive it tries to crush you like a pancake in an implosion right where you are at a given depth. You would know what happens if you go outside human skeleton at a guess I would probably say your ribs collapse?
So how do you propose increased pressure is going to force the crust up or down it doesn’t for you when diving?.
The only force you have up or down as a diver is bouyancy and that doesn’t change with depth (caveat unless the pressure deforms the volume)
https://www.ck12.org/flexi/physical-science/archimedes-law/does-buoyant-force-increase-with-increasing-depth/
So the crust is the same as you diving the pressure is not going to make the crust want to go up or down it’s just trying to compact it harder right where it is.
That is the same problem the original article by Simone Peter tell us how increased pressure makes the crust move up/down?
Now you could look at what causes an earthquake and no surprise hydrostatic pressure is not among the answers
https://www.bgs.ac.uk/discovering-geology/earth-hazards/earthquakes/what-causes-earthquakes/
A lot of earthquakes are caused by sideways motions.
If you go outside the human skeleton, there are no ribs to collapse.
What keeps you from imploding is not your ribs, it is the air pressure in your lungs.
As to your belief that pressure can’t make the crust go down, that is only true for a uniform pressure applied to the entire planet.
As for this planet, it’s well known that the weight (pressure) of the glaciers caused the crust to sink under the glaciers, and that parts of the planet are still rebounding due to the reduction in pressure when the ice sheets melted.
Pressure is force. Uneven pressure will cause movement if the thing being pressed is malleable.
Your belief that pressure doesn’t matter, is only true if the pressure is the same all over the planet.
That is obviously not true.
What’s interesting is that the mountains on Earth slump because of the moisture the rocks contain. The mountains on Venus do not slump like Earth mountains because the Venusian rocks don’t contain moisture. I saw an experiment where they compared the strength under hydraulic pressure of rock samples that were dried (by heating) and those not dried. The dried samples resisted deformation until failure. The un-dried (if that’s a word) samples were malleable–they squished.
Her dripping faucet is probably due to a warn washer. She needs to call a plumber instead of a climate scientist.
“warn washer”
Didn’t you just get finished insulting the intelligence of others?
Yeah. Spelling is not my strong suit–especially after a few drinks. But I do know that tomorrow is relative.
The date is relative, but tomorrow will always be tomorrow.
“But I do know that tomorrow is relative.”
Close or distant & from which side of the family ??
I like how individuals try to bring ambiguity into the discussion where none exists. Let’s analyze my sentence–however, I’m not an English major.
The first word is a conjunction. One of the lies your English teacher taught you was you can’t begin a sentence with a conjunction–not true. “I” is the subject. “Know” is the verb. “Do” is an auxiliary verb. The noun subordinate clause that acts as the object is introduced by “that.” Notice that the subordinate clause has a subject, verb, and predicate. The subject is “tomorrow.” The verb is the linking verb “is.” That means that what follows is either a predicate adjective or a predicate noun/nominative.
Clearly “relative” is an adjective. So your silly comment is nonsense. Had I added an indefinite article “a” or the definite article “the” in front of “relative,” then you might have a point.
The translation of the Latin is ” to err is foolish”, I think someone is having a laugh.
A PhD too, in microbiology, maybe that’s the German 5 yrs PhD they used to have.
My wife knows that I dislike the double negative, “irregardless.” We were at a school-community meeting for whatsoever. The Vice-Principal was talking and said, “irregardless.” My wife noticed my body-language. She wrote on her writing pad for me to see, “PhD.”
Reminds me of a story I read.
The professor was telling his class that English is the only language where a double positive doesn’t equal a negative. From the the back of the room someone said, “Yea, right.”
(But I suppose that would fall into the category of a figure of speech. A departure from prober English grammar. An idiom.) 😎
And that reminds me of a comment on the Compuserve writing forum many years ago:
The student wrote, “The woman fell down the stairs and lay prostitute at the bottom.”
The professor wrote in the margin, “My dear sir, you must learn the difference between a fallen woman, and one that had just slipped.”
Simply must join the discussion of this fun thing! British wind is down to three gigawatts and that’s due to Climate Change!
So, the lack of earthquakes in Germany proves that the Greens are barking up the right tree. Until it has to be cut down to make way for a wind farm, of course
The molten glaciers Myanmars caused the earthquake.
Proof – Myanmar never had any earthquakes when they had glaciers.(same with the Sahara)
Give her a room with rubber wallpaper
Someone make a tally of how many of such idiotic statements are made by men and how many by women activists and politicians.
“Geologists are increasingly in agreement that there is a link between the climate crisis and earthquakes,” she continued.
No we aren’t.
‘..she continued’?– ‘Just when I think you’ve said the stupidest thing–you keep talkin‘;.
This person is profoundly ignorant of the “Ring of Fire”.
There certainly is a link.
They both happen on Earth.
Climate Change in 1906 when the Earth shook and sky burned.
The TV series Paradise is based on this idea. A glacier in Antarctica melts allowing a volcano to erupt which then causes a tsunami killing millions.
Like all believers in the Church of ACGW she is an imbecile, PhD notwithstanding – especially those dealing with Climate Change.
Yes. And pigs could fly. If they had wings.
The AWFL’s will kill us all.
Typical warmunist tactic – take some negative outcome, using a infinitesimally small nexis to that outcome and claim that it’s all caused by global warming. There was a big and unusual rainstorm in ____ this week, people died in the flood, therefore it was caused by climate change. There was an earthquake in Myanmar, 900+ miles from the nearest glaciers in the Himilayas, which obviously was caused by melting glaciers due to global warming.
I saw a rat yesterday in the back yard. My second cousin was diagnosed with cancer yesterday. Therefore rats in my back yard caused her cancer.
What an absolute moron. When a large Coronal hole faces Earth, like this week, a huge one, it increases the chance of seismic activity. They will jump on any fake bandwagon to push their insane ideology.
Gasp!
You can’t mean the earth is affected by the sun’s gravity?
Must be a circular argument in there.
If not the perhaps a parabolic debate about an eccentric ellipse?
But Scientists say….
… our most vulnerable.
Well, if she wasn’t a complete and utter moron she wouldn’t be a green, climate-catastrophist. Clearly, they are not the fount of knowledge.
A PHD in microbiology? She cannot be that stupid. I believe she’s intentionally trying to mislead the ignorant.
Someone please round up all the geologists who “are increasingly in agreement that there is a link between the climate crisis and earthquakes“ and take away their geologist licenses.
And what are you going to do with the ones who believe there is a link between fracking and earthquakes ?
What does fracking have to do with “climate”?
How would injecting something (like captured CO2?) to maintain pressure cause an earthquake if decreasing the pressure by pumping out oil, natural gas or even water didn’t already cause earthquakes?
Like the butterfly wings in China that cause a hurricane in the Caribbean, earthquakes can be caused by flatulence in a chair in a German Green Party office….
So … eating too many greens like broccoli or brussel sprouts causes earthquakes? 😎
From here on out the CAGW mob are just embarrassing themselves. They have no proper evidence to support their claims so they are reduced to just making stuff up. They are pathetic.