[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

When Mount St. Helens erupted, Jimmah Carter had this
idea to quench the eruption by print money and bombing
the volcano with the money.

He then wanted Mount St. Helens to be renamed the Magma Carter.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

The Royal Society???

This is getting crazy.

[SkyDancer]

This was the same group that said heavier than air machines were impossible ...

[MEGoody]

So global warming caused the volcano to erupt? Well, good. All that ash will cool things down.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

From following the comments we have this from the Guardian (UK):

Scientists call for research on climate link to geological hazards

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Experts say suggestions that climate change could trigger more volcanoes and earthquakes are speculative, but there is enough evidence to take the threat seriously

David Adam, environment correspondent

Monday 19 April 2010 06.30 BST

Scientists today called for wide-ranging research into whether more volcanoes, earthquakes, landslides and tsunamis could be triggered by rising global temperatures under global warming.

Significant warming of the atmosphere in the distant past can be linked to changes in geological activity, they say. Suggestions that climate change predicted for coming decades could bring similar changes remain speculative, but the scientists say there is enough evidence to take the threat seriously. Some experts have already linked current levels of global warming to rockfalls and landslides in mountain regions.

Richard Betts, a climate modeller at the Met Office Hadley Centre in Exeter, said: "This is a new area of academic research with potentially interesting implications. It was previously assumed there was no link at all between climate change and these events, but it is possible to speculate that climate change might make some more likely. If we do get large amounts of climate change in the long term then we might see some impacts."

He said there was no evidence that current levels of global warming were influencing events such as last week's earthquake in China that killed hundreds of people and the volcanic eruption in Iceland that grounded flights across Europe.

Experts say global warming could affect geological hazards such as earthquakes because of the way it can move large amounts of mass around on the Earth's surface. Melting glaciers and rising sea levels shift the distribution of huge amounts of water, which release and increase pressures through the ground.

These pressure changes could make ruptures and seismic shifts more likely. Research from Germany suggests that the Earth's crust can sometimes be so close to failure that tiny changes in surface pressure brought on my heavy rain can trigger quakes. Tropical storms, snowfall and shifting tides have all been linked to shifts in seismic activity.

[DesertRhino]

I have a crazy idea,,,If a volcano decides to do anything fun, maybe we have to accept it and work around it, rather than follow this insane British insistence that the earth remain exactly as it is now!

[NormsRevenge]

What a bunch of Royal Ashwipes. (/family friendly)

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Ernest. Any word yet from these demagogues on the effect of giant hydroelectric projects, such as the Three Gorges Dam (Communists) or Aswan High Dam (Muzzies, but built by Commies)?

in yet another assault on reason, the Royal Society has warned:

In papers published by the Royal Society, researchers warned that melting ice, sea level rises and even increasingly heavy storms and rainfall -- predicted consequences of rising temperatures -- could affect the Earth’s crust... As the land "rebounds" back up once the weight of the ice has been removed -- which could be by as much as a kilometre in places such as Greenland and Antarctica -- then if, in the worst case scenario, all the ice were to melt -- it could trigger earthquakes.