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Is the Earth striking back?
CNN.com ^ | April 23, 2010 | Alan Weisman

Posted on 04/24/2010 12:07:24 AM PDT by TN4Liberty

... As we have learned, these gases form an invisible barrier that, like a greenhouse's glass ceiling, keeps reflected heat of the sun from escaping our atmosphere. The denser that gaseous barrier grows, the hotter things get and the faster glaciers melt.

As they flow off the land, we are warned, seas rise. Yet something else is lately worrying geologists: the likelihood that the Earth's crust, relieved of so much formidable weight of ice borne for many thousands of years, has begun to stretch and rebound.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: catastrophism; crust; earthquakes; eyjafjallajokull; geology; globalwarming; gorebullwarming; hotaircult; junkscience; paniccult; volcano
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And here, ladies and gentlemen, is how global warming is causing volcanos and earthquakes.
1 posted on 04/24/2010 12:07:25 AM PDT by TN4Liberty
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To: TN4Liberty

You know, the seas have risen quite a bit.

When I was a child, you could walk form North Carolina to Bermuda without getting your feet wet.

Just saying...


2 posted on 04/24/2010 12:10:54 AM PDT by PetroniusMaximus
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Gaia is a bitch.


3 posted on 04/24/2010 12:11:12 AM PDT by D-fendr (Deus non alligatur sacramentis sed nos alligamur.)
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To: TN4Liberty

At least the comments are encouraging. Even CNN site readers aren’t buying this eyewash.


4 posted on 04/24/2010 12:11:47 AM PDT by coydog (Time to feed the pigs!)
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To: TN4Liberty

“Alan Weisman is the author of “The World Without Us,” an international bestseller now in 33 languages.”

The a**hole pines for a world without humans. I’m waiting for him to take the lead - no luck so far.


5 posted on 04/24/2010 12:11:48 AM PDT by aquila48
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To: TN4Liberty

This article was obviously written by a non-geologist.


6 posted on 04/24/2010 12:14:26 AM PDT by rfp1234
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To: PetroniusMaximus

That tweren’t nutin’. Why I remember when the tide was out we could take a dune buggy and make it from the Baja to Hawaii just before it came back in. We would scoop up the marlin for snack on the way by....


7 posted on 04/24/2010 12:15:11 AM PDT by Cvengr (Adversity in life and death is inevitable. Thru faith in Christ, stress is optional.)
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To: TN4Liberty
Except that Antarctica has as much ice as it ever has since they started recording it...

And if all this ice has melted as they claim, where did the water go? The rate of sea level rise has been essentially constant for hundreds of years. The sea has been steadily rising since the last glacial period about 13,000 years ago...

It is this moronic "science" that gives science a bad name.

8 posted on 04/24/2010 12:17:12 AM PDT by DB
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To: TN4Liberty

The loss of a few feet of ice off of land masses (partially offset by the presence of liquid water instead) is influencing the motion of miles thick plates of stone?


9 posted on 04/24/2010 12:19:07 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (I am in America but not of America (per bible: am in the world but not of it))
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To: rfp1234; TN4Liberty; coydog

“As they flow off the land, we are warned, seas rise. Yet something else is lately worrying geologists: the likelihood that the Earth’s crust, relieved of so much formidable weight of ice borne for many thousands of years, has begun to stretch and rebound.”

What a bunch of putrid ignorance. The earth’s crust does not consist of only the land area, it includes what’s underneath the oceans! Not only that, but there hasn’t been any sea rise!!


10 posted on 04/24/2010 12:19:22 AM PDT by aquila48
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To: coydog

This is kind of like expecting Guam to capsize if enough people stand near the coast.


11 posted on 04/24/2010 12:20:48 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (I am in America but not of America (per bible: am in the world but not of it))
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To: TN4Liberty
The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Alan Weisman.

I.e., in case you were wondering, I just made this stuff up -- Alan.

12 posted on 04/24/2010 12:29:56 AM PDT by AZLiberty (Yes, Mr. Lennon, I do want a revolution.)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

LOL


13 posted on 04/24/2010 12:30:06 AM PDT by TN4Liberty (My tagline disappeared so this is my new one.)
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To: rfp1234

“The Earth shudders in Haiti. Then Chile. Then western China. Mexicali-Calexico. The Solomon Islands. Spain. New Guinea.”

What!!?? You mean these places weren’t covered with mile thick ice the last ice age?

(I can’t believe I had to read through the whole article to get to the guy’s point. It read like a sixth-grade paper where extra credit is given for using descriptive words.)

HOWEVER. There are “earthquakes” (small) in Canada due to the rebounding of the rock. Plus, it really screwed with folks before they figured it out in the northern regions. They thought for sure the water level of the oceans was going down based on the tide gauges (sp?) - but it was/is really the ground rising.

Well, just like every good fairy tale (or monster story) - there is some truth behind the story.


14 posted on 04/24/2010 12:36:05 AM PDT by 21twelve ( UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES MY ARSE: "..now begin the work of remaking America."-Obama, 1/20/09)
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To: HiTech RedNeck
“This is kind of like expecting Guam to capsize if enough people stand near the coast.”

I know - that is just stupid. Obviously if everyone stood on the coast their weight would be equally distributed around the geographical center of the island and it wouldn't tip over.

15 posted on 04/24/2010 12:38:49 AM PDT by 21twelve ( UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES MY ARSE: "..now begin the work of remaking America."-Obama, 1/20/09)
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To: 21twelve

Even if they all congregated on the same beach... good grief.


16 posted on 04/24/2010 12:41:23 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (I am in America but not of America (per bible: am in the world but not of it))
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To: HiTech RedNeck

Unless that beach was at the opposite end of a mountain of equal mass. ;) (Or the grave of Ted Kennedy perhaps)

Hey - I was just thinking. Ya know how the earth tilts on its axis? I bet that is because of all those folks in China and India all on the other side.

And of course Antartica is “down” because of all the extra ice down there.

Kind of got off topic, but not really. What with the start of it being the loss of ice causing the volcano, this all makes as much sense. (Except - the volcano was under the ice.)

Well, at least now I know why I’m always hearing about how important the “ecological balance” is.


17 posted on 04/24/2010 12:53:21 AM PDT by 21twelve ( UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES MY ARSE: "..now begin the work of remaking America."-Obama, 1/20/09)
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To: Cvengr; PetroniusMaximus
Pffft!

When I was a kid, we didn't even have water. My dad had to slam hydrogen and oxygen molecules together so mom could do the wash.

18 posted on 04/24/2010 1:26:58 AM PDT by FredZarguna ("I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.")
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To: aquila48
The earth’s crust does not consist of only the land area, it includes what’s underneath the oceans!

Not only that, but the land rises and falls, in response to the incoming and outgoing tide.

You can measure sea level at the shoreline, any place you would like, and it doesn't mean squat.

With all the rising and falling going on at the beaches, you would think they would have the most earthquakes.

The biggest contributor to earthquakes is that the Earth is growing.

Only way to get the icecaps to melt and cause a significant change in ocean levels is to flip the Earth on it's axis so that the polar icecaps are on the equator and we are at one of the poles. (which is how we got miles deep glaciers covering the North American continent to begin with).

Anybody got a surefire way to flip the planet, let me know.

19 posted on 04/24/2010 1:28:27 AM PDT by UCANSEE2 (The Last Boy Scout)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

There you go being logical again. Don’t you know logic and science have nothing to do with it? It has to feel right, and support the hypothesis that people are bad for the planet to be a legitimate “scientific” fact!


20 posted on 04/24/2010 1:40:43 AM PDT by Mom MD (Jesus is the Light of the world!)
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