The Earth fights back

Guardian Unlimited ^ | Bill McGuire

[jsh3180]

Never mind higher temperatures, climate change has a few nastier surprises in store. Bill McGuire says we can also expect more earthquakes, volcanoes, landslides and tsunamis.

Unlike most apparently intractable problems, which have a tendency to go away when examined closely and analytically, the climate change predicament just seems to get bigger and scarier the more we learn about it.

Now we discover that not only are the oceans and the atmosphere conspiring against us, bringing baking temperatures, more powerful storms, floods and ever-climbing sea levels, but the crust beneath our feet seems likely to join in too.

[jsh3180]

Ahhhhh...now earthquakes, volcanoes and every imaginable natural disaster will occur from CLIMATE CHANGE.

WE'RE DOOMED !!!

[listenhillary]

Must be trying to kill off the “stupids” I would presume.

[Oldexpat]

On extended trip from Socal to Florida to Midwest and now to Atlantic Canada we have unseasonable cold and wet weather.
Snow in AZ, record Frost in FL and SE, heavy rain in East, and now Oct like weather in Atlantic Canada.
Bring on global warming!

[Darkwolf377]

The Earth fights back

...using the media's ongoing attempts to anthropomorphize the planet!

[Shady]

Note from Daily Kos:
BUSH’S FAULT!

[Robert A. Cook, PE]

Now we discover that not only are the oceans and the atmosphere conspiring against us, bringing baking temperatures, more powerful storms, floods and ever-climbing sea levels, but the crust beneath our feet seems likely to join in too. ...

But only an “Intelligent Designer” could “decide” to fight back, marshal His forces this way to “right” mankind, and the liberals swear that everything happens by accident.

[metesky]

Unlike most apparently intractable problems, which have a tendency to go away when examined closely and analytically, the climate change predicament just seems to get bigger and scarier the more we learn about it.

Liberalism and fear go together like ham and eggs. In fact it's pretty much the only weapon in their arsenal.

[NurdlyPeon]

Let me be the first to go on record as predicting that global warming will cause the sky to fall.

[ml/nj]

BIG thunderstorms here this AM, much bigger than last year or the year before, if I recall correctly. This must be due to "climate change," I'm sure.

ML/NJ

[rockinqsranch]

A much cooler Summer in S. Calif. than previous average these past few years. Most noticeable this year.

[Incorrigible]

That storm nearly knocked me out of bed!

And it kept going and going for over an hour!

Now that I’ve barely slept... It’s time to go to work!

[ml/nj]

That storm nearly knocked me out of bed!

I think these things are being strengthened by lawn mower fumes. I've noticed that they occur much more often and are much stronger when all the gardeners show up.

ML/NJ

[Lazamataz]

Let me be the first to go on record as predicting that global warming will cause the sky to fall.

We must go and tell the King!

[wolfcreek]

There was a guy on TV last evening who has been tracking magnetic North for the last 20 yrs. He determined it’s has moved from far northern Canada towards the North pole at a steady rate for some time.

In the last ten yrs. or so, the movement has begun to greatly accelerate and MN could be in Siberia within 40 or 50 ys.

This alone might explain our current variations in the weather patterns. Axis Shift

[catman67]

It’s actually all of those gas powered blowers and weed wackers that are causing the increase in storm intensity!!

[Fred911]

The weatherman on the radio actually recommended that people not go outdoors yesterday. He said that it would be dangerously hot. It was 95 degrees....and I have to say that I did sweat while I was cutting the lawn.....but somehow I survived. Just lucky I guess.

[RichInOC]

Climate change...is there anything it can't do?

[Izzy Dunne]

Must be trying to kill off the “stupids” I would presume.

Well, get on with it, already.

I need a new car.

[libstripper]

It’s actually all of those gas powered blowers and weed wackers that are causing the increase in storm intensity!!

DEAD WRONG!! It's dog farts. However, be of no fear. I'll gladly sell you as many carbon credits (a.k.a. dog fart indulgences) @ $100 apiece to enable me to buy Beano for my two big dogs.

[ChessExpert]

This is interesting:

But how can rising sea levels cause volcanoes to erupt? The answer lies in the enormous mass of the water pouring into the ocean basins from the retreating ice sheets. The addition of over a hundred metres depth of water to the continental margins and marine island chains, where over 60% of the world's active volcanoes reside, seems to be sufficient to load and bend the underlying crust.

You can make money selling a books:

Bill McGuire is the director of the Benfield UCL Hazard Research Centre. His book Surviving Armageddon: Solutions For a Threatened Planet is published by OUP. His next book, What Everyone Should Know About the Future of Our Planet: And What We Can Do About It, is published by Orion in January next year.

Provided that you can scare people into buying them:

The Earth is responding as a single, integrated system to climate change driven by human activities. ... Maybe the Earth is trying to tell us something. It really would be worth listening before it is too late.

To find out what you can do to save the planet and mankind, buy my books!

[kabar]

The Empire Strikes Back

[CougarGA7]

I love how they have stopped saying “global warming” and say “climate change” now. It prevents embarassments like blizzards during your global warming conference and allows you to blame any litte twist in the weather as proof of your crackpot theory.

[CougarGA7]

How many “stupids” do you have to kill off before you earn the car?

[TheBattman]

Kind of reminds you of the forecasts by the “experts” that we are suppose to have a super-bad hurricane season this year...And so far, it has been amazingly quiet. Those climatologists sure are smart cookies, aren’t they. We obviously can rely on ANYTHING they say- as their accuracy is way off the scale...

[buck61]

Never mind higher temperatures, climate change has a few nastier surprises in store. Bill McGuire says we can also expect more earthquakes, volcanoes, landslides and tsunamis.

If you are a believer in the Revelations of the Bible? does this surprise any-one???
Just a part of what’s to come. Doom and gloom, that’s for sure.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

“What do we want?” ‘To stop Plate Tectonics!’ “When do we want it?” ‘Now!’

http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/dynamic/historical.html

[w1andsodidwe]

Here in the great central valley of California, we have been basking in 82 degree temperatures with low humidity and lovely ocean breezes. For anyone out east, the cool weather is on the way, if you can just manage to hang on a few days.

[The Great RJ]

Climate change also causes dandruff, excessive earwax, hang nails, priapism in wombats and worst of all brings out manbearpig ...I’m super serial.

[w1andsodidwe]

Climate change...is there anything it can't do?

As a matter of fact there is. Yesterday Rush >Limbaugh read an article about how walking causes more carbon output than driving because of the carbons output growing food.

So just get in your car and start driving more.

[longtermmemmory]

Those who anthromophosise the planet are mentally sick and suffering from some kind of lonelyness syndrom.

They act like a prisoner in solitary who makes friends with spiders or cockroaches. They have isolated themselves mentally and feel so out of reality that giving the planet human characteristics is the only way to try and maintain reality.

See the movie cast away with “Wilson” the vollyball as Tom Hanks companion.

[longtermmemmory]

TV station sell home depot and lowes lots of prepare for hurricane season ads, tv station news says THE END IS NIGH PREPARE PREPARE! Viewers rush to home depot and lows.

Money made, reality is irrelevant.

[Ditter]

Last night our news and weather folks on Houston TV said something similar. We are finally having seasonal weather, it’s HOT here like summer usually is, after having 2 very cool and rainy months. The TV idiots told us to stay in A/C. I wonder how I survived growing up here without A/C.

[SpinnerWebb]

I’m scared now. HOLD ME!

don’t make this awkward....

[SoFloFreeper]

Such a dramatic rise in coming centuries would clearly spell catastrophe for our civilisation, with low-lying regions across the planet vanishing rapidly beneath the waves... [drowning] the city of Miami, leaving it 37 miles (60km) off the US coast.

Oh my GAWD! Florida PING & PANIC!

[neverdem]

GW/CC ping

[Dahoser]

Just great. Like the Chicken Littles don’t interrupt programming on every channel enough already when there’s the slightest hint of a thunderstorm, now we’re going to get earth’s crust alerts. Damn that Karl Rove and his infernal weather machine!

[xcamel]

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[TenthAmendmentChampion]

It’s like the OC up here in Fresno County. I’m enjoying it but I’m concerned about the raisin crop. Hopefully the temps will go back up to the high 90s before September. This GW stuff has jumped the shark (or maybe did a long time since).

[SuziQ]

Never mind higher temperatures, climate change has a few nastier surprises in store. Bill McGuire says we can also expect more earthquakes, volcanoes, landslides and tsunamis.

Whatta maroon!

[kidd]

This “making the gods angry” stuff is sooooo first century.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

Global warming also causes acne and hemorrhoids.