I came across this article and it is a great hypothesis to recent geological events. Whether you believe in global warming or not (it does not debate the issue) or that the earth is naturally warming, it hypothesizes a connection between the melting icecaps and recent earthquakes and volcanic activity. It makes sense. I recently heard an interview with a geologist who stated that the recent earthquakes were not related. This never made sense to me. If I move my house to the right 2 cm I am now closer to one neighbor and farther from the other. If the tectonic places all border each other it would make sense that if one shifts it will add or relieve pressure depending on which direction the move happened.
Or it could be the Mayan’s were correct and we are building up to a big finish in 2012…
I don't have a whole lot of knowledge on climate change but don't think man had anything really to do with the ice age that happened, may of been the earth shift further away from the sun who knows. Maybe now were little closer who knows. Think we all should do our part to help, and other then that if something is gonna happen don't think much we really can do about it.
i also feel that the earhtquakes are related; it seems logical that all of the recent earhtquakes have displaced certain tectonic plates. the earth could be going through and active period within it’s interior.
I hypothesized that idea to some friends a year ago. after watching NGO programs on how the ice age depressed the land, and since melting, the land has been rebounding from less weight on it, i think its true. water can be pile up in glaciers, or melt and spread to the sea. thats a big shift of weight or mass. and puts diferent strsses on the fault zones. also a slight warming of the sea floor not only melts methane hydrates, a tell tale, it makes the sea bed thermally expand, when applied to thousands of miles of tectonic plates, that means a lot more stress on fault lines.
Yeah, I think its a distinct possiblity and having an effect. geology backs that up. after previous warming periods, and melting glaciers, more eathquakes and volcanic activity have been noted in the geological record.
also, as the glaciers melt and transfer their load down to the sea, it changes the rotational inertia of the earth and can alter the length of the day. which will mess up your GPS, so that it tells you to make a right turn in the middle of a long bridge over the bay.—>
