Climate Change Fanatics Blame Japan Earthquakes, Tsunamis on Global Warming
You know, because earthquakes are such a recent phenomenon.
(Grist) — So far, today’s tsunami has mainly affected Japan — there are reports of up to 300 dead in the coastal city of Sendai — but future tsunamis could strike the U.S. and virtually any other coastal area of the world with equal or greater force, say scientists. In a little-heeded warning issued at a 2009 conference on the subject, experts outlined a range of mechanisms by which climate change could already be causing more earthquakes, tsunamis, and volcanic activity. . . .
Scientists have known for some time that climate change affects not just the atmosphere and the oceans but the earth’s crust, but these effects are not widely understood by the public.
“In the political community people are almost completely unaware of any geological aspects to climate change,” said McGuire.
This means a world in which we are warming the earth by pumping greenhouse gasses into the atmosphere at a pace that is unprecedented in Earth’s history is also a world in which the consequences of climate change could come hard and fast, including tsunamis and earthquakes.
It’s often difficult to visualize what climate change-related disasters might look like, but the images pouring out of Japan are yet another reminder of the specter of storm surges supercharged by more powerful storms and rising seas, and even climate-change caused tsunamis. (All of America’s coastal cities are vulnerable to these impacts — including, in this powerful animation, New York City.) Right on the heels of Brisbane, Snowpocalypse and Australia’s record dust storms, we have yet another reminder of what an earth transformed by climate change earth could look like.
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hahahah.
I was waiting for this one ALL MORNING
that didnt take long
We all knew THAT was coming….
but, if you Google “earthquake + supermoon”, you will see that the moon is at it’s closest approach to the Earth in many years.
Damn the moon! I say we shrink it with our Dick Cheney deathray.
Notice the use of “climate change” rather than the former “global warming.”
Look the climate is ALWAYS undergoing change. Always has been, always will be. The earth is ALWAYS subject to earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, etc. Always has been, always will be. They will all happen despite whatever lightbulbs we use, whether we live in single family homes, tents, or adobe apartment buildings.
No such thing as a stable climate on this planet. Humans don’t control the planet, it is obeying a much greater Authority. We get to go along for the ride.
Meanwhile other ass hat “scientists” are blaming it on the
“supermoon” occuring this March 19 th.
I got my own theory
Shit happens
climate: 1. The meteorological conditions, including temperature, precipitation, and wind, that characteristically prevail in a particular region.
2. A region of the earth having particular meteorological conditions
earthquake: a geological series of vibrations induced in the earth’s crust by the abrupt rupture and rebound of rocks in which elastic strain has been slowly accumulating.
tsunami: A very large ocean wave caused by an underwater earthquake or volcanic eruption. (a geological event)
I really am fully sick and tired of these people ‘fudging’ the facts/meanings/terms of these things to suit their agenda. It all hinges on their embedded belief the people are stupid and ignorant sheep.
Okay global warming blame is done.
Next when do they say Bush did it.
@D. Austin -
Not that I’m buying into the “supermoon” theory, but as an aside, the moon has more a scientific proven effect on the Earth (by way of its gravitational pull) than man does the climate.
I thought they’d at least 24 hours before spouting their nonsense.
“Scientists have known for some time that climate change affects not just the atmosphere and the oceans but the earth’s crust, but these effects are not widely understood by the public.”
But some “scientists” with data only they can understand, know that this is true. Yeah, right.
This was the 7th largest recorded earthquake–but we’ve only been “recording” them for a century or so. It’s not the largest, and there have been similar large ones throughout human history. These things happen.
Stuff like this happens all the time every 50 or 100 years.
This is not Gorbull warming ……. It’s called Nature.
“In the political community people are almost completely unaware of any geological aspects to climate change,” said McGuire.
Oh god…….these people must think that human beings (other than themselves of course) are hopelessly nieve or incapable of even a scintilla of rational thought. Even the slightest implication (as was done in this statement) that global warming (specifically, the hoax that is AGW) has any impact on GEOLOGIC events such as earthquakes makes them look like people who should be wearing sandwich boards in the town square declaring that the end of the world is nigh.
And all this time I thought earthquakes were the result of shifting tectonic plates.
Stooopid me.
Now now, we all know Godzilla is to blame….Awakened by climate change!!
From the article:
“It’s often difficult to visualize what climate change-related disasters might look like…”
IOW: We’ll blame all natural disasters on globull warming. We’ll also blame any lack of disasters on globull warming. Warm winters with no snow? Globull warming. Extremely cold winters with tons of snow? Globull warming.
Okay you MORONS!
Let’s try some SCIENCE! You’ve heard of that…. or maybe not.
9:00 PM January 26th, 1700 a magnitude 9 quake struck what is now the Washington and Oregon coast. The oral traditions of the natives and geological evidence shows the quake happened.
But how did science determine not only the date, but the TIME?
A tsunami on the coast of Japan was recorded, with no local earthquake.
A tsunami before the industrial age.
Or back in the 1810s when Missouri had two large 8.0 earthquakes (Missouri!) which were strong enough to ring bells in Boston.
That must have been from all those SUVs back then.
And they are due for another big one in that area….I shudder to think the damage it could cause now but if it did you can bet it would be global warming.
I dropped a penny, so I need your money.
Any excuse to spout Communist propaganda.
Can you imagine all the earthquakes that must have happened during the jurassic period? It was so warm then and there was so much CO2 in the air that plants and animals were the size of high rises and the North Pole was a swamp!
Anyone watch that animation? New Jersey and Long Island were miraculously saved.
And in 1810 that earthquake made the Mississippi River run backwards.
The “Warmers” will never let the facts get in the way of their bullshit story. No one knows why an earthquake hits, or how severe it is when it does. Next they will be blaming Charlie Sheen’s behavior on global warming. . . wait a minute. . . might be something to that . . .
Good grief, now any tectonic plate shift is because of Global Warming. I am so sick of these deceivers and phony “scientists”.
Sarah Palin.
@ Maggie
I agree, but like all orbits, we can project far into the past every
supermoon, and if it is the cause, their should be a high percentage
of accompaning quakes, there isn’t
Also the supermoon isn’t until the 19th
I also agree with your other post, these aren’t scienctists, they’re
lobbists looking for a government handout
Insanity in full bloom for all to see with the greenie-weenies and their never-ending agendas.
I tire of these destructive bastids who have helped destroy our own country.
My prayers go out to those in Japan, but these ass-holes can’t even wait 24 hours to start in…real caring critters eh?
I’m really curious at to how a rise of less than 1 degree over the last one hundred years can so affect the earth’s crust that it would cause huge earthquakes.
Boy, it’s a good thing man wasn’t around when all of those tectonic plates were originally migrating all around the surface of the Earth. I’m sure that was a perfectly calm and serene time, both seismologically and vulconologically. Leave it to man to cause such an idyllic, pastoral scene to turn geologically violent.
If we all only had our little zero-emission Jetson-mobiles (oh, wait, they did emit little puffs…..probably just water vapor, right?). Between that and our little unicorns (I’m sure unicorn flatus is not nearly as toxic as bison and bovine flatus, is it Mr. Turner?) we’ll all be just happy, happy, joy, joy in La La Land.
Green-eyed (in all the ugly connotations) enviro-facists. Never let a tragedy go to waste when you can ca$h in on it.
The best photo of :- ” SHARIA IN ACTION ” !…
Okay.. as I see it…. it’s due to the heat generated in the magnetic field causing the core of the Earth to heat up, making the crust move a bit easier and increasing the CHANCE of an earthquake… didn’t we have a solar prominence March 2nd???? The increase in Current caused more heat due to the resistance of the Earths core…. (Power = Current squared x Resistance), the compression of the Earths magnetic field (Gauss effect) causes the increase current flow…. Please …. Al Gore… send me money so I can study this more and be rich like you???
Okay, let me get this straight.
The intense heat INSIDE our planet doesn’t make it to the surface, otherwise there would be no snow on the ground during the winter.
But I’m supposed to believe that the temperature of the air, which is far less than that of the Earth’s core, is heating the planet and causing earthquakes?
SOMEONE IS STILL STUCK ON STUPID…………
“PAGING MAN-BEAR-PIG”
You’re thinking too much- you have to believe in the power of the Green God, build idols to him, make sacrifices to him, and only then will he grant you forgiveness from all the bad stuff that happens on Earth. It’s almost like you think the Global Warming movement isn’t just a pagan religion or something.
Treehugger and Grist are claiming that the earthquake in Japan was caused by Global Warming. They say it has something to so with the ice melting and easing the pressure on the mantle of the Earth or some such, but we all know that the earthquake was caused by the omni-powerful Koch Brothers. The same goes for Global Warming .. the Koch Brothers are increasing the CO2 levels to enhance crop yields to make .. you guessed it .. $$$$$.
Obama is just doing the “cap-n-tax” just to stop them. He is so jealous that being “The Won” doesn’t let him heat or cool the Earth.
“7th largest recorded earthquake.” As was said above, “recorded” in climate terms, is about 150 years. The earth is 4 billion years old. The whole Egore global warming scam is sort of, to me, like this- Let’s say we’re talking to a 100 year old man, but for some reason he can only remember the last 10 seconds of his life. Out of those last 10 seconds, he recalls 2 of them as being “as hot as I can remember- something bad is happening here! We’re all going to die!” All of which, in the big picture, means nothing. Because he can’t remember what happened for the other 99 years, 364 days, 23 hours and 50 seconds.
algore and his pathetic followers are
idiots
I have to rant a little.
I just saw in Yahoo a link to click for donations to send aid to Japan.
Are you fucking kidding me….?
THEY OWN US!
Half of everything we buy is made in FUCKING JAPAN! The other half is China.
Our car companies are about to sink like ships, alot of the reason being Japanese cars. Im not getting into quality, price, etc. but to suggest that we should send JAPAN money is not only laughable, but VERY blind and stupid.
Let Yamaha, Toyota, Honda, Sony, etc. fix that shit. Haiti was one thing. Everyone there is in poverty. Japan certainly isnt. If they are, its not due to a lack of money rolling in.
How many Japanese dollars (yen) came flying into the US after Hurricane Katrina?
Ill bet not enough to fill your eyeball.
Just stupid.
Dont dismiss this so quickly. Look at the trends–correlation might not mean causation but there is still a connection between the measured increase of natural disasters and the temperature of the earths core. The only reason science isnt permitted to show how imminent the shifting of the plates really is, is because the powers that be are desperately planning who will survive and how. Im not religious, but if you take a second to challenge your denial, what other fate could logically be at hand, and what would you do if you were tasked with humanitys survival?
That would scare the shit out of anybody. My heart goes out to those people.
and right-wingers blame it on the 2nd coming of jeebus, ’cause,
“You know, because earthquakes are such a recent phenomenon”
There was an article a few years back… let me see if I can remember this correctly.
Supposedly, a slight increase (or decrease) in water depth, due to rising ocean levels and El Nino / La Nina, and/or seasonal wind patterns, changes the stress (weight) on the plates and causes volcano eruptions and earthquakes. The funny part was that one researcher found that too much water was the problem, and another concluded too little water was the cause, so they decided both were right. Also they admitted that when going through the historic records the eruptions didn’t match the water level records at first so a lot of data massaging was done and, presto, their theories were proven correct!
my wife and I were joking that it would only make sense for the left to claim that earthquakes are related to global warming. Nice to see that the science on that is already settled.
“The only reason science isnt permitted to show how imminent the shifting of the plates really is, is because the powers that be are desperately planning who will survive and how. ”
So you are saying Soros and his NWO buddies has some sort of Earthquake predicting machine? That’s almost as funny as Cheney’s weather machine.
All you need to know is if you are along the Pacific coast…you have a pretty good shot at getting big earthquakes from time to time because of subduction and slip-strike faults. Prepare accordingly or live in spots that aren’t prone to that sort of thing.
Besides if you really wanted to decide who lives or dies…earthquakes don’t kill people as efficiently as controlling food, energy, and currency…which is what they are trying to do.
Lava in Hawaii has been flowing a lot lately. The Quake in Japan might have something to do with the displacement of Magma under the Earth’s core due to this Magma shift from Hawaii. Global Warming is a Lie told by Al Gore to Line his pockets with money made from selling Carbon Credits.
So let me get this straight. If we all drive 2 miles less for the next 3 days we will be buried in snow by next friday?