Could a Changing Climate Set Off Volcanoes and Quakes?

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

[bd476]

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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[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?

[bd476]

LOL, it's as if they can't help themselves.

After all, there's gold in them thar hills of climate change. Something to consider is how much this new Gold Rush will cost us taxpayers.

[Myrddin]

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

[eccentric]

I agree. It seems more likely the volcanoes threw enough dirt in the air that the climate cooled.

[DB]

Well...

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

Even move mountains...

Who knew...

All in the name of “science”...

[bd476]

Myrddin wrote: "Confusing cause and effect to line their pockets with grant money. 'Scientific' prostitution."

Well stated, Myrddin. I wonder how much further they think they can take it.

[bd476]

DB wrote: "Well...
There's nothing plant food can't do...
Even move mountains...
Who knew...
All in the name of 'science'..."

LOL!

Mum's the word though, DB. Plant food is everywhere.

[LibWhacker]

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

[SpaceBar]

In this particular case, the ideal gas law doesn’t hold, and rocks can indeed melt on decompression due to changes in the chemical potential of stable phases becoming unstable with subsequent dissolution back into the melt. That said, the theory this scientist is pushing is preposterous on the face of it, due to energy budget considerations, and known tectonic mechanisms.

[bd476]

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

LOL! That sounds about right.

[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"

[monocle]

Due to thermal expansion most materials become less dense with increasing temperature. That aside, I have often wondered if quakes or vocanic eruptions could be,in part, caused or facilitated by land tides.

[monocle]

BTW PV = nRT is Boyles GAS law.

[Explorer89]

I should learn to keep my stupid mouth shut. It has been at least 25 years since Chemistry.

Nonetheless, I thought the point of a pressure cooker was to allow higher temperatures?