Melting icecap in Greenland triggers quakes
Snip: "The Greenland ice cap is melting so quickly that it is triggering earthquakes as pieces of ice several cubic kilometres in size break off." Link.
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I will miss polar ice caps :(
This is the saddest thing I've read in a long while.
Will we feel equally besieged when we start hearing reports of climate change that have a positive impact on human habitability? For instance, are we seeing increased rainfall in arid regions?
Does it count as an earthquake when it's caused by the impact of gigantic chunks of ice rather than the shift of the tectonic plates? I'm curious.
When the Greenland icecap slides into the sea every coastal city in the world will look like New Orleans on Katrina Day. Except of course the water will never go away.
So far there is little evidence that now-arid regions will become less so because of global warming.
#3, increased rainfall in an arid region isn't good for what already lives there.
Why are the Polar Ice Caps melting in an area where greenhouse gasses are the thinnest? I hardly doubt the phenomenon is due to "Global Warming" (ie man-made). There are alternate explanations: perhaps the melting is due to the Sun's activity? Or maybe the shifting ocean currents? Or even maybe cloud activity! Let's use some common sense and a little logic here folks, instead of going off the deep end and worrying about drowning from the Greenland icecap sliding into the sea!
It should´t count as earthquake, it is a different process
I never understood the "what if global warming isn't really happening?" argument.
The worst case scenario if the world's scientific community is wrong is that we make necessary changes to our lifestyles, changes any rational person would recognize as inevitable anyway, unless we want to live in a world that looks and smells like LA in Blade Runner.
Whereas the worst-case scenario if climate change IS happening and we do nothing about it involves a lot worse than the extinction of polar bears, as tragic as that would be. Care to gamble on that, for the sake of your SUV? I wouldn't.
The "smog is good, clean air and water are bad" argument is a tough sell, it seems to me, under any circumstances.
I see you all missed the point. An earthquake can happen anywhere. Not just at the plate edges. An earthquake can occur as the load is easing above its area, just as it did occur under the singapore towers as they were adding load . they still have micro quakes there. The same as there will be more quakes in greenland and the artic areas when the ice melts. Not just the fall quakes. That may set off iceland more, and increase the melt.
Global warming don't mean that the north gets hotter, but a pattern of the "usual" has been alterd, and the butterfly is now not just flapping its wings, but moving.