17 Apr 10
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http://www.livescience.com/environment/070830_gw_quakes.html
I kid you not. They are now blaming earthquakes and volcanos on global warming. How? Apparently they are blaming retreating ice sheets as reducing pressure on the earths crust thus prompting increased volcanic acitivity. In addition, the increased water pressure in the oversized oceans can prompt increased pressure on fault line within the earths crust in our oceans. LMAO!!
I remember a day when I started to buy into the whole man made global warming idea, but now it has become just a joke.
18 Apr 10
Originally posted by BeyerMy my, I musn't question them if it comes from a scientific journal. I have no idea what I was thinking. Thanks friend, I almost wound up on a burning stake after facing a Dawkins inquisition.
Uhh, you do know that Nature is a scientific journal, scrutinized through peer review, with research behind it, right? I'm sure the journal would be elated to hear your refutation, provided it's more than just rhetoric.
18 Apr 10
Originally posted by whodeyLet me rephrase.
My my, I musn't question them if it comes from a scientific journal. I have no idea what I was thinking. Thanks friend, I almost wound up on a burning stake after facing a Dawkins inquisition.
I would be elated to hear your refutation, provided it's more than just rhetoric.
18 Apr 10
Originally posted by BeyerI thinking that Iceland should pave the entire volcanic crater to "weigh down" the earths crust since the ice no longer can prevent eruptions. Either that, or move all the "over weight" Icelanders to the crater to live and then see if that helps.
Let me rephrase.
I would be elated to hear your refutation, provided it's more than just rhetoric.
18 Apr 10
Originally posted by whodeyWhat are the scientific grounds you are citing for your assertion that the article in Nature is "just a joke"?
I thinking that Iceland should pave the entire volcanic crater to "weigh down" the earths crust since the ice no longer can prevent eruptions. Either that, or move all the "over weight" Icelanders to the crater to live and then see if that helps.
18 Apr 10
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Originally posted by FMFIt appears to be all speculation to me. Every time you turn your head and a disaster occurs you hear people blaming global warming and they just love to use scientific theories to give them an air of credibility. It started with hurricanes, which have been subdued lately, and now this? Methinks the boy called wolf once to many times.
What are the scientific grounds you are citing for your assertion that the article in Nature is "just a joke"?
18 Apr 10
Originally posted by whodeyWhat is the science behind your refutation? In fact, WHAT is the refutation exactly? You start a a thread on an international forum on a scientific topic and all you've got is "it's just a joke"? Even if it is scientific "speculation", as you say it appears to be to you, why would this be "just a joke"?
It appears to be all speculation to me. Every time you turn your head and a disaster occurs you hear people blaming global warming and they just love to use scientific theories to give them an air of credibility. It started with hurricanes, which have been subdued lately, and now this? Methinks the boy called wolf once to many times.
18 Apr 10
Originally posted by whodeyLosing Weight
I thinking that Iceland should pave the entire volcanic crater to "weigh down" the earths crust since the ice no longer can prevent eruptions. Either that, or move all the "over weight" Icelanders to the crater to live and then see if that helps.
According to the new report, Greenland lost an estimated 1,500 gigatons (one gigaton is equal to 1 billion tons) of ice from the year 2000 to 2008. "That is at the upper end of recent estimates of Greenland mass loss using various other methods," van den Broeke told SPIEGEL ONLINE. Between 2006 and 2008, the loss in weight totaled 273 gigatons per year, he said.
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,661192,00.html
18 Apr 10
Originally posted by BeyerPresumably whodey doesn't think this has happened because it would be "just a joke" if it had.
According to the new report, Greenland lost an estimated 1,500 gigatons (one gigaton is equal to 1 billion tons) of ice from the year 2000 to 2008.
18 Apr 10
Originally posted by whodeyYou kicked this thread off with http://www.livescience.com/environment/070830_gw_quakes.html
Are you saying that global warming caused the volcano in Iceland to errupt?
What is your scientific refutation of it (i.e. why is it "just a joke" ) ?
18 Apr 10
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Originally posted by FMFBut its just a theory, not proof. So do you buy into it? You know, not everything that appears in science magazines are actually true, especially with such a policially charged topic. Such policially charged topics should be treated with great trepidation in terms of motive.
You kicked this thread off with http://www.livescience.com/environment/070830_gw_quakes.html
What is your scientific refutation of it (i.e. why is it "just a joke" ) ?
18 Apr 10
Originally posted by whodeyGreenland lost an estimated 1,500,000,000,000 tons of ice between 2000 and 2008. Is that a "policially charged" fact? Or do you think that the ice is still there?
Such policially charged topics should be treated with great trepidation in terms of motive.