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scpg02

Melting ice cap triggering earthquakes

We're all going to die!

Melting ice cap triggering earthquakes
· Estimates of sea-level rise out of date, say scientists
· Religious leaders pray for planet at Greenland glacier

Paul Brown in Ilulissat
The Guardian Saturday September 8 2007

Quote:
The Greenland ice cap is melting so quickly that it is triggering earthquakes as pieces of ice several cubic kilometres in size break off.

Scientists monitoring events this summer say the acceleration could be catastrophic in terms of sea-level rise and make predictions this February by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change far too low.

The glacier at Ilulissat, which supposedly spawned the iceberg that sank the Titantic, is now flowing three times faster into the sea than it was 10 years ago.


http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2007/sep/08/climatechange/print
Baywax

Re: Melting ice cap triggering earthquakes

scpg02 wrote:
We're all going to die!

Melting ice cap triggering earthquakes
· Estimates of sea-level rise out of date, say scientists
· Religious leaders pray for planet at Greenland glacier

Paul Brown in Ilulissat
The Guardian Saturday September 8 2007

Quote:
The Greenland ice cap is melting so quickly that it is triggering earthquakes as pieces of ice several cubic kilometres in size break off.

Scientists monitoring events this summer say the acceleration could be catastrophic in terms of sea-level rise and make predictions this February by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change far too low.

The glacier at Ilulissat, which supposedly spawned the iceberg that sank the Titantic, is now flowing three times faster into the sea than it was 10 years ago.


http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2007/sep/08/climatechange/print


This is probably the isostatic lift created by the lessening weight of the glacier on the land. The land is popping up a bit and that would cause some seismic activity.
Latecommer

Exactly Baywax, isostatic lift is no doubt what it is, though it might be considered that these so called experts are not measuring the actual break of Km size blocks.
Baywax

Latecommer wrote:
Exactly Baywax, isostatic lift is no doubt what it is, though it might be considered that these so called experts are not measuring the actual break of Km size blocks.


I'm proposing a series of screening techniques for hiring any scientists and experts who do research. Their capabilities would have to be tops in many categories suchas: lateral thinking, free associative abilities, mental health, social awareness, self-actualization and survival skills to name a few.

This sort of screening would be designed to assure people that the reports received are accurate reports. Beyond doing this, there are no benchmarks laying out a standard psychomorphological condition for each researcher.

There can be 20 drunk meterologists reporting on conditions somewhere and there can be 3 perfectly sober geologists giving there reports at the same time. There's no enforced standard to the conditions surrounding research or the the condition of the researchers themselves.

Andre showed photos of meterology stations that have been either carelessly or deliberately built in some of the hottest parking lots I've ever seen! This demonstrates how the standards, if they exist, are not adhered to or, the standards don't exist or matter to the press or even to a journal with some sort of loyalty to some sort of ideal.

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