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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Fred Pearce is a freelance author and journalist based in the UK. He serves as environmental consultant for New Scientist magazine and is the author of numerous books, including When The Rivers Run Dry and With Speed and Violence. In previous articles for Yale Environment 360, Pearce has written about the environmental consequences of humankind’s addiction to chemical fertilizers and the possible role that airborne microbes play in our world, from spreading disease to possibly changing the climate.
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The Guardian: CO2 Apocalypse Now! Volcanoes, earthquakes, awaken subterranean giants
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[bd476]

Follow the $$ Money Ping.

[SWAMPSNIPER]

Who cares? There are more than enough serious problems without sweating the nitshit.

[Thunder90]

GW Doomage PING!!!

[Explorer89]

He cites Freysteinn Sigmundsson at the Nordic Volcanological Center at the University of Iceland in Reykjavik, who says: “Reduction of pressure enabled mantle rocks to melt.......

My old friend, PV = nRT begs to differ, and tells me that the temperature was higher when the pressure was higher.

Catastrophism ping?

[Myrddin]

Confusing cause and effect to line their pockets with grant money. "Scientific" prostitution.

[DB]

Well...

There’s nothing plant food can’t do...

Even move mountains...

Who knew...

All in the name of “science”...

[LibWhacker]

What’s next, climate change will draw in asteroids and comets and cause them to collide with Earth?

[Bon mots]

Global warming can also turn people into zombies and make them eat each other, so we must turn large amounts of money total political control over to these scientists and Al Bore so that they can save us.

[WSGilcrest]

A British scientist argues

An american FReeper says, "bah"

[melsec]

chicken/egg?

[ArcadeQuarters]

> says a British geologist Bill McGuire

Missing out on all the global warming grants, eh? I’ll create a new section on my bookshelf between “Buy this book or the terrorists will win” and “Buy this book or you’ll die in Y2K.”

[Smokin' Joe]

I thought one set of scientific ideas which were pretty well settled dealt with tectonic activity, and the driving heat flow from the mantle.

Increase that heat flow, increase plate motion and volcanism.

While all that continental jostling, erupting, and formation of new ocean floor is going on, it might affect the surface weather a tad.

However, saying the weather affects tectonic activity, is a bit like saying loud exhaust noise makes the engine rev higher.

[FreedomPoster]

Wow. This was satire just a day ago, and already here’s some idiot who is serious about it.

Anthropogenic Continental Drift: An Incoherent Truth
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2881104/posts

The above is hugely entertaining, by the way.

[Vaquero]

...Fire and brimstone coming down from the skies! Rivers and seas boiling!
...Forty years of darkness! Earthquakes, volcanoes...
...The dead rising from the grave!
....Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together... mass hysteria!

[jimfree]

I’ll bite. Okay, what are the physics behind such a response?

[soycd]

>So how scared should we be?

There is the money line. I’d say this nutcase needs only a few million dollars of fear generated cash.

[DH]

Well! This should scare the hell out of the sheep and timid thinkers.

Our only solution is more green policies and the only ones who can do it are socialists and progressives.

[Chode]

gee, i thought it was the other way round...

[Condor51]

This guy is nuts. The end.

[dfwgator]

Could a Changing Climate Make Monkeys Fly Out of My Butt?