You are indulging in wild speculation that has no basis. The link is about what happens when there is a 150m sea level rise and a loss of 3km thick ice sheets.scas wrote:dorlomin - the link to the Philosophical Transactions are pasted in this thread.
Royal Society Stunner: “Observations suggest that the ongoing rise in global average temperatures may already be eliciting a hazardous response from the geosphere.”
Top scientists call for research on climate link to volcanoes, earthquakes, landslides and tsunamis
April 19, 2010
"Periods of exceptional climate change in Earth history are associated with a dynamic response from the solid Earth, involving enhanced levels of potentially hazardous geological and geomorphological activity. This response is expressed through the adjustment, modulation or triggering of a wide range of surface and crustal phenomena, including volcanic and seismic activity, submarine and sub-aerial landslides, tsunamis and landslide ’splash’ waves glacial outburst and rock-dam failure floods, debris flows and gas-hydrate destabilisation. Looking ahead, modelling studies and projection of current trends point towards increased risk in relation to a spectrum of geological and geomorphological hazards in a world warmed by anthropogenic climate change, while observations suggest that the ongoing rise in global average temperatures may already be eliciting a hazardous response from the geosphere."
So we should pay no attention to this newfangled 2010 quackery from the journal pompously named "Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society"
Did it have an effect on the timing, strength or duration? Undoubtedly.
Knowing that there are things that you don't know m
missing current sea mass of exising sea wich may measure several thousand meters.
You lot want to make a meal of of that, go for it. Its your credibility not mine.
As well as high latitude .scas wrote:I guess we just have different interpretations of what "may already" means.
do major earthquakes come in swarms covering a decade or less?
Recently, scientists have realised that the next Mega Tsunami is likely to begin on one of the Canary Islands, off the coast of North Africa, where a wall of water will one day race across the entire Atlantic Ocean at the speed of a jet airliner to devastate the east coast of the United States, the Caribbean and Brazil.
Dr Simon Day, who works at the Benfield Greig Hazards Research Centre, University College London*, says that one flank of the Cumbre Vieja volcano on the island of La Palma, in the Canaries, is unstable and could plunge into the ocean during the volcano's next eruption.
Dr. Day says: "If the volcano collapsed in one block of almost 20 cubic kilometres of rock, weighing 500 billion tonnes - twice the size of the Isle of Wight - it would fall into water almost 4 miles deep and create an undersea wave 2000 feet tall. Within five minutes of the landslide, a dome of water about a mile high would form and then collapse, before the Mega Tsunami fanned out in every direction, travelling at speeds of up to 500 mph. A 330ft wave would strike the western Sahara in less than an hour."
Europe would be protected from the fiercest force by the position of the other Canary Islands, but the tsunami would still bring 33ft waves to Lisbon and La Coruña within three hours.
After six hours it would reach Britain, where waves up to 40 ft high would hit southwest England at 500 miles per hour, travel a mile inland and obliterate almost everything in its path including the Nuclear power station at Hinkley Point where the prevailing winds will take any radiation across the whole of the UK. Even Britain's more sheltered shores, in the North Sea and Irish Sea, will be struck by smaller but still significant swells, causing widespread flooding in major coastal cities.
"We need better models to see what the precise effects on Britain will be." Dr. Day said. However, it is likely that London could suffer sever inundation as the Thames Barrier's ability to cope with such a dramatic rise in water levels exceeds its design specifications.
http://members.beforeitsnews.com/story/ ... he_UK.html
dorlomin wrote:As well as high latitude .scas wrote:I guess we just have different interpretations of what "may already" means.
Dont be a cowardly weasel and try put words in my mouth.scas wrote:I am glad you agree climate change can, and already may be causing responses in the geosphere.
dorlomin wrote:Dont be a cowardly weasel and try put words in my mouth.scas wrote:I am glad you agree climate change can, and already may be causing responses in the geosphere.
rockdoc123 wrote:without doubt this is the most ill-informed load of claptrap I have had the pain of witnessing on this site.
The giant earthquakes are caused by a build up of tension in an area where tectonic plates meet. Either were they are pushing together or pulling apart. The total amount of energy released over a long time frame is basically all going to come from the energy in the slow movement areas of rock measing in the millions of square kilometer and up to 100km's deep rubbing against each other.sea level rise has or could affect pressure points in plate tectonics, some of which are apparently on hair triggers, ready to go off explosively with the slightest forcing.
sparky wrote:.
Did global warming cause the Japan Earthquake/Tsunami?
what a lot of rubbish , how can anyone even ask that question
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