How Melting Glaciers Alter Earth's Surface, Spur Quakes, Volcanoes

Wall Street Journal ^ | June 9, 2006 | Sharon Begley

[jimtorr]

My understanding is he signed it, but never had it before the Senate.

Clinton didn't even sign it, he had AlGore do it for him. As I recall, he presented either the treaty itself or asked the Senate for a resolution about the treaty. Whichever, it was overwhelmingly defeated, by something like 90 votes.

[Fledermaus]

Oh geez, what tripe. The next thing they'll want me to believe is that war is peace and that we've ALWAYS been at war the Oceania.

[Mike Darancette]

The vast majority of glaciers are on Antarctica and Greenland. Should we expect increased earthquakes and volcanism in those places?

[Mike Darancette]

Have the areas where the continental ice sheets covered North America and Eurasia suffered much volcanism and earthquakes since the ice retreated?

[dixie sass]

And this is supposed to explain the seismic activity in the Charleston, SC area??????? I don't think so...

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Charleston just rocks, I guess...

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

We are at war with Eastasia. We have always been at war with Eastasia.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

The senate rejected debate on that piece of crap by a vote of 95 to 0 in 1997 or 1998, IIRC.

[mountn man]

So in other words, the Senate slapped it down real hard previously, but its still Bush's Fault.

[ChildOfThe60s]

"It's unavoidable that glacial retreat will induce tectonic activity," says geoscientist Allen Glazner of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

Huh? I'm sorry, I just can't swallow that, particularly when he uses the term "unavoidable". The science is nowhere that precise. How about everyone in North America jump at the same time and disrupt the earth's rotation?

Further, I consider the source to be suspect because UNC is very liberal.

[dixie sass]

Lol, yes it does. In more ways than one!

[Coleus]

Help the sky is falling,

[geopyg]

"No contest. (And only applicable to the south pole anyway.)"

That's my thought too. HOWEVER, parts of the earth that were covered in ice about 10,000 years ago (over a mile thick here in Seattle - but thank God for global warming) are still on the rebound. It's not much though. And it doesn't mean more earthquakes, etc.