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Prof. Claims Global Warming Caused Nepal’s Earthquakes
Daily Caller ^ | 04/27/2015 | Michael Bastasch

Posted on 04/29/2015 4:42:36 PM PDT by Kid Shelleen

So not only does global warming cause volcanoes, but it also caused the massive earthquake that rocked Nepal Saturday and killed thousands of people.

“It now appears that there exists a clear relationship between the global warming and earthquakes and other under earth activities,” writes Dr. Vivek Kumar Srivastava, an assistant professor at India’s Kanpur University.

Srivastava argues that when permafrost melts in the Arctic “and associated areas due to the increased global temperature, it is quite likely that the under located areas of the earth are affected due to alteration in the pressure on the earth crust.” He adds that when “water level on the seas and oceans increase due to the increased water quantity caused by the global warming, impact on the inside zones of earth can cause many tremors.”

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To: Kid Shelleen

My toe fungus caused global the earthquake.


21 posted on 04/29/2015 5:10:57 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: Kid Shelleen

Santa Claus lives in Nepal?

My Parents lied to me!


22 posted on 04/29/2015 5:11:00 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative (Hillary, because it's time for a POTUS without a SCROTUS...)
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To: Vendome

“””My toe fungus caused the earthquake”””

(fixed)


23 posted on 04/29/2015 5:12:39 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: Kid Shelleen

The National Geological Society has a different opinion:

225 million years ago (Ma) India was a large island situated off the Australian coast and separated from Asia by the Tethys Ocean. The supercontinent Pangea began to break up 200 Ma and India started a northward drift towards Asia. 80 Ma India was 6,400 km south of the Asian continent but moving towards it at a rate of between 9 and 16 cm per year. At this time Tethys Ocean floor would have been subducting northwards beneath Asia and the plate margin would have been a Convergent oceanic-continental one just like the Andes today.

Between 40 and 20 Ma the rate of northward drift slowed as the two continental plates collided and the former Tethys Ocean closed. Neither continental plate could be subducted due to their low density/buoyancy. This caused the continental crust to thicken due to folding and faulting by compressional forces. The continental crust here is twice the average thickness at around 75 km. The thickening of the continental crust marked the end of volcanic activity in the region as any magma moving upwards would solidify before it could reach the surface.

The Himalayas are still rising by more than 1 cm per year as India continues to move northwards into Asia, which explains the occurrence of shallow focus earthquakes in the region today. However the forces of weathering and erosion are lowering the Himalayas at about the same rate. The Himalayas and Tibetan plateau trend east-west and extend for 2,900 km, reaching the maximum elevation of 8,848 metres (Mount Everest).

http://www.geolsoc.org.uk/Plate-Tectonics/Chap3-Plate-Margins/Convergent/Continental-Collision


24 posted on 04/29/2015 5:13:24 PM PDT by DJ Taylor (Once again our country is at war, and once again the Democrats have sided with our enemy.)
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To: Kid Shelleen
Fine. If melting ice is the cause of earthquakes, then scientists can go back about ten thousand years and try and determine how many earthquakes were caused during the great ice melt.

About 10-12 thousand years ago much of the northern U.S. was covered by an ice sheet up to two miles in height. That all receded. If what the good professor says is true, there should be some sort of record of extreme seismic activity during that recession.

25 posted on 04/29/2015 5:17:43 PM PDT by driftless2
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To: Kid Shelleen

OK!! Everybody pay attention!

Lesson for today:

1. The sun is 1,300,000 times as big as the earth.

2. The sun is a ball of fire that controls the climates of all its planets.

3. The earth is one of the sun’s planets.

4. The earth is a speck in comparison to the size of the sun.

5. Inhabitants of the earth are less than specks.

Study Question: How do less-than-specks in congress plan to control the sun?


26 posted on 04/29/2015 5:22:18 PM PDT by abclily
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To: Kid Shelleen

There is strong evidence that ED is also linked to climate change (aka global warming).


27 posted on 04/29/2015 5:27:17 PM PDT by windsorknot
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To: Kid Shelleen

Global warming is an oxymoron..


28 posted on 04/29/2015 5:35:22 PM PDT by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited to include some fully orbed hyperbole..)
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To: Kid Shelleen
Gibberish.
29 posted on 04/29/2015 5:37:02 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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To: Kid Shelleen

Time to add this to the list of everything else that causes Globull Warming!


30 posted on 04/29/2015 5:37:42 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
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To: driftless2

Dr. Vivek Kumar Srivastava studies politics. That might explain his poor understanding of physics and geology. But like a lot of lefties (Al Gore comes to mind), he is not shy about lecturing us on subjects he knows nothing about.


31 posted on 04/29/2015 5:37:54 PM PDT by BigBobber (`)
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To: Kid Shelleen
I remember chuckling when reading Voltaire's Candide where the Grand Inquisitor of Lisbon declared that earthquakes were caused by not burning enough heretics. Perhaps the good professor will similarly suggest burning climate change deniers ...of course the carbon from the burning must be offset to protect the climate
32 posted on 04/29/2015 5:48:44 PM PDT by The Great RJ (Pants up...Don't loot!)
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To: Kid Shelleen

This dude is wack. Scientist? Hardly


33 posted on 04/29/2015 6:03:40 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (SEMPER FI!! - Monthly Donors Rock!!)
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To: Kid Shelleen

Global warming is solely caused by a purple lipped homosexual in the White House.

This is “settled” science.


34 posted on 04/29/2015 6:03:58 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (My Batting Average( 1,000) (GOPe is that easy to read))
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To: Kid Shelleen

Who caused the global warming earthquake that separated the continents? The citizens of Bedrock?


35 posted on 04/29/2015 6:24:03 PM PDT by ExCTCitizen (I'm ExCTCitizen and I approve this reply. If it does offend Libs, I'm NOT sorry...)
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To: alstewartfan

Unicorns. It’s all caused by unicorns.


36 posted on 04/29/2015 6:34:09 PM PDT by GOPJ (The thugs loot stores. The community leaders loot cities. - Daniel Greenfield)
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To: Kid Shelleen

“Talk about something else that’s falling from the sky
and that is an asteroid. What’s coming our way? Is this
an effect of, perhaps, of global warming, or is this just
some meteoric occasion?” - CNN’s Deborah Feyerick


37 posted on 04/29/2015 7:04:41 PM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy ("Don't compare me to the almighty, compare me to the alternative." -Obama, 09-24-11)
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To: BitWielder1
Yeah, right, a professor in Political Science explains how earth quakes work.

Political Science is right up there with Military Intelligence in terms of Oxymorons.

He may not be a Seismologist, but he did stay at a Holiday Inn!

38 posted on 04/29/2015 7:08:01 PM PDT by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: MUDDOG

There is severe cracking of China when plates collide. ;-)


39 posted on 04/29/2015 7:41:58 PM PDT by JimSEA
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To: Kid Shelleen

Discussing symptoms; if the current CO2 levels are causing these problems how do we reduce CO2 to 1850 levels?


40 posted on 04/29/2015 10:23:28 PM PDT by Mike Darancette (Barack Obama is not inarguably sane.)
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