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I couldn't get the linked article to come up for me for some reason, so couldn't read it and don't know what it says.
However, I thought the knowledge that earth's warming periods caused an increase in volcanic activity and earthquakes was something that was fairly common knowledge by now. There's nothing loony about it, it's a proven fact and I guess you just didn't know about it.
If you care to do an online search you'll find there are several other science and geology reports available online about scientific studies done that show that volcanic action increased significantly during the earth's many other climate change warming periods all around the world in the distant past, not only in Iceland. Also other studies have shown evidence there had been increases in seismic activity and the number of violent earthquakes during the earth's warming periods in the past.
Additionally, I guess you just haven't noticed or just never made the connection, but there HAS been a notable increase in both volcanic and seismic activity around the world in the past 20 years with a huge increase in the past 8 years. They've been increasing more and more progressively with each passing year now. They aren't just happening in places that are known for it to be common, they are also happening now in places where they've never been common or where they've not been known to ever happen before.
The climate-volcano connection doesn't apply to Earth's current warming trend, of course, because we're not in the middle of an ice age--it's been 12,000 years since the world's continents felt the weight of all that frozen water.
The climate-volcano connection doesn't apply to Earth's current warming trend, of course, because we're not in the middle of an ice age--it's been 12,000 years since the world's continents felt the weight of all that frozen water.
There are many more reports than just those I listed. Each one says something a little different from the other, different conclusions, different speculations. Not all conclusions are about ice or the weight of ice, some are about increases in ocean temperatures and earth surface temperatures, some are about GHG's in the atmosphere. They vary.
Something that they do all say in common though is that during past warming periods there have been dramatic increases in volcanic and seismic activity. That is all that I'm interested to know about in correlation with what is happening today. I don't need to know what the reasons for the increases are in either the warming trends or the volcanic and seismic increases and I don't care how much ice there was 12,000 years ago.
The only thing that's important to me to know about today is that in the past during warming periods there were increases in volcanic and seismic activity, and now today in the 21st century the earth is progressing in a warming trend again and there is already a notable increase again in volcanic and seismic activity. I will deduce from this that as the warming trend continues and earth gets progressively hotter I can expect the volcanic/seismic activity to get progressively worse.
Something that they do all say in common though is that during past warming periods there have been dramatic increases in volcanic and seismic activity. That is all that I'm interested to know about in correlation with what is happening today.
Correlation between A and B doesn't mean A leads to B. It might be that B leads to A, or C leads to both A and B. If there's indeed increased seismic activity, it would have 1000 times stronger effect on the climate than human activity.
If the Op had bothered to read the Time article and took a few minutes to mull it over, it makes a compelling arguement for the consequence of AGW. Just more evidence on a mountain of evidence of AGW...at least for those whose minds are not completely closed because of religious or political beliefs.
If the Op had bothered to read the Time article and took a few minutes to mull it over, it makes a compelling arguement for the consequence of AGW. Just more evidence on a mountain of evidence of AGW...at least for those whose minds are not completely closed because of religious or political beliefs.
Correlation between A and B doesn't mean A leads to B. It might be that B leads to A, or C leads to both A and B. Volcanic activity clearly leads to warming. If there's indeed increased seismic activity, that would be 1000 times stronger reason for warming than human activity.
Maybe. Maybe not. It doesn't matter. I'm satisfied to know that A and B apparently go hand in hand and can be expected.
The only human activity I would be interested in would be that of humans preparing accordingly for survival of the warming, volcanoes and earthquakes. I live in an earthquake zone and it's expected so I was already better prepared for that in my location than I was for a volcano in my location. Now I think it has not hurt to have made a few extra preparations to deal with a volcano in the event that might also happen here too.
I don't think there would be any harm for everybody to try to be prepared to survive any of those eventualities instead of looking for arguements, discrepancies and excuses to not do anything to help themselves.
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Last edited by Zoisite; 01-30-2015 at 07:29 PM..
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