Could a Changing Climate Set Off Volcanoes and Quakes?

Yale University Enviornment 360 ^ | May 7, 2012 | Fred Pearce

[Reeses]

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

So if we ignore the leftists many of us will be killed by Earth. And if listen to the leftists many of us will be killed by government. I'll take my chances with the Earth option.

Leftists hate most of humanity so they should pray for the climate apocalypse. On the day after, their envy over the Joneses next door will be all gone and they will experience rapture.

[dfwgator]

Leftists think there are too many people on this planet, anyway...so I say, let the Earth take care of that problem.

[Myrddin]

That aside, I have often wondered if quakes or vocanic eruptions could be,in part, caused or facilitated by land tides.

The orbiting moon is a constantly applied, moving gravity wave of varying magnitude. It causes both water and land tides. As with any force applied and released, there is going to be long term mechanical breakdown. Throw in the earth directed coronal mass ejections from the sun and you have a fairly complex set of interactions. Not something easily amenable to a simple predictive model.

[DH]

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

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I guess you didn’t pick up in my sarcasm in that statement.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Well some researchers got funding for a study,...we got a thread around here somewhere,...that Global Warming was caused by dinosaur outgassing...eh ...farts...

Dinosaur gases 'warmed the Earth'

Must be true,...BBC broadcast it.

Been busy this morning with the latest from Watts Up With That?

East Anglia Climatic Research Unit shown to be liars by ... latest FOIA ruling and investigation

And:

Yamal FOI Sheds New Light on Flawed Data ( AGW -- The Global Warming Hockey Stick is Faux )

[SunkenCiv]

A total lack of physics education appears to be a prerequisite among the pro-AGW demagogues. Thanks Explorer89 for that excellent comment and the ping.

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[SunkenCiv]

slight link fix:

Dinosaur gases ‘warmed the Earth’
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2880915/posts

[gleeaikin]

In the case of the increase of volcanic activity at the end of the last ice age, it is possible that the outburst of volcanism in Europe WAS caused by the melting and lifting upward of compressed areas in Europe. There were significant volcanic eruptions or flows in Germany, France, and Italy. Activity has continued in Italy on a smaller scale.

However, the idea that global warming will trigger intense volcanic activity is a real stretch unless it might take place in Antarctica if great quantities of ice melt where Mt. Erebus and others are located, also allowing significant uplift. While melting may be taking place in the Alps, and the Himalayas, these are not volcanic type mountain areas. I don’t think there is deep enough snow cover to affect the volcanic potential in the Andes.

I have noted an interesting phenomena in the temperature charts. Between 30,000 and 22,000 years ago there were three major temperature drops. I have identified one possible cause for the drop 22,000 years ago. That is the eruption of Sakura-Jima. This Japanese volcano left a 15 mile diameter caldera which could have sent up a lot of ash and cooling sulfur. Currently there is an active smaller volcano on the edge of that caldera, as well as a city and port.

[blam]

A significant melting of ice will cause some redistribution of weight on the crusts, etc and possibly cause earthquakes and volcanoes.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks glee’! If all the ice in Antarctica (including the amount above sealevel, which is the shorter half of all the ice there) melted, the isostatic rebound could result in the eruption of any existing volcano there, or anywhere (particularly south of the Equator). It would be difficult to be positive of the causation though. :’)