Global Warming Causes Earthquakes
Dean
You know, when the earthquake and subsequent tsunami broke this weekend, I was tempted to cynically opine that soon some of the worst environmentalist nutjobs (not all environmentalists are nuts by the way, but anyway...) would suggest that the proximate cause was Global Warming and the Bush Administration's cynical failure to ratify the Kyoto Protocol.
It seemed a little too cynical so I didn't say it. Well, I did say it to my friend John, but not to anyone else. I saw a few quotes from random nobodies in the papers so I figured we could ignore that. But here it is:
In an interview with the Independent newspaper in Britain, Stephen Tindale, executive director of Greenpeace UK, said: "No one can ignore the relentless increase in extreme weather events and so-called natural disasters, which in reality are no more natural than a plastic Christmas tree." Speaking to the same newspaper, Friends of the Earth Director Tony Juniper pressed the argument home: "Here again are yet more events in the real world that are consistent with climate change predictions."
That's right. Not only does global warming cause unusually cold winters, unusually hot summers, massive species extinction, and so on, but apparently now it causes Earthquakes.
I'm pretty sure that the Bush administration's failure to ratify the Kyoto protocol will soon be blamed for acne, drug addiction, teen pregnancy, and the comedy stylings of Carrot Top.
Some attrocities are just too horrid to inflict even on an enemy.
Silly me.
That is indeed very silly of you. You see, the plates can shift because they're riding on liquid magma in the mantle. So, when the world gets hotter, the magma gets less viscous, and so the plates shift more easily, causing more earthquakes.
And if we see fewer earthquakes after this, I'll be able to explain that (as well as why it's bad) by global warming, too.
;-)
If you want an antidote to global warming hysteria, there is none more entertaining, and few more informative, than State of Fear.
Overpopulation causes earthquakes, as billions of footsteps, et al, come into gigantic harmonic convergence.
This means he knows <I>less than nothing</i> about the environment as it actually is, and all natural science.
I'm just glad that a god is on our side...
We have heard this tired old song and dance from them now for years. They claimed back in the 60's that by the year 2000 the world would be gone.
As Kayato- that is a farce if I have ever seen one. You think for one minute the third world countries and China would abide by such stupid restrictions? I mean come on if you ever wanted to sign your freedom of enterprise away that would do it.
Of course I remember Mr. EnvorMentalist (ALGORE) himself proclaim that he would get rid of the evil "internal combustion engine" , but did he offer any thoughts on the number jobs lost on this proclomation? Did anyone notice he did not drive around in a Geo Metro while running for President..
These people are sick.....
How is this behavior of environmentalists any different? As a conservative and an environmentalist myself, I'm constantly frustrated by the way in which the whole environmental movement is mocked by conservatives in general, because "environmentalism is just religion for hippies" or some such canard. But when you read this type of nonsense, it's hard to make the case otherwise.
Evangelical Protestant churches probably do provide the most ready base for fundamentalism in the US. As this shows, however, the classic religions have no monopoly on fundamentalist religious tendencies. It's just a part of the human condition, it seems.
Bush being God, as revealed above by Foobarista, this will not work, I'm sure. It is written.
I am not surprised to see the left using this disaster to bash the US and Israel, but you would think they would have left it a wee bit longer?
But I know for a fact there is a concept of "mass stupidity", and I include in that category any large groups of people who live along or congregate at tropical shorelines in southeast Asia within close proximity of the prominent meeting points of multiple tectonic plates of the earth's surface.
There is no remedy for the fact that these plates, where they meet at the bottom of the oceans, grind against and displace one another ever so slightly. Which is enough to send shock waves through the overlying liquid environment, resulting in gigantic tsunamis which can crush and will drown hundreds of thousands of persons in minutes.
Or, where one plate subducts another, the result, less frequently but more devastatingly, is an island volcano that explodes with the forces of a simultaneous explosion of an entire thermonuclear arsenal, resulting in concentric tsunamis of even greater force, power, and destructiveness. Santorini and Krakatoa happened before. There will be other such deadly events exactly like them.
The only remedy is to reduce and minimalize the size of the human populations that breed like flies along the very shores of the coastlines most likely to be affected by these terrible events.
Remember, there never is and there never shall be the capability of evacuating millions of persons from these coastlines within sufficient time to save their lives. Nor is there any means at all of saving there homes, villages and other works of man.
Nor should this consideration be confined to tsunamis. For how many decades now have we amused or horrified ourselves watching newsreels or television news footage of more or less annual mass evacuations of south Florida, southern Louisiana, or the outer banks of North Carolina?
The latter is a good example of the mass stupidity that I have referred to. The outer banks are a chain, not of islands, but of oceanic sandbars. Which means the very ground under one's feet is unstable and designed to shift location over time.
The one occasion on which I spent a couple of days driving along the outer banks, from Kitty Hawk in the north to Morehead back on the mainland to the south, I was struck dumb by the vast number of expensive shacks perched on stilts along the ocean front. Waiting for the inevitable large waves that shall simply destroy the structure and drown anyone stupid enough to remain within.
I should greatly oppose any federal policy that uses taxpayer funds for financial bail-outs of fools who live along such dangerous coasts, or in flood-prone locations along the great rivers, or in trailer villages in the tornado belt ranging from Texas up through the far northern states.
And by the same standard, I would withhold any funds except for immediate emergency assistance for countries that do nothing to effectuate population control. The only asian states that I admire are countries such as Japan, China and Singapore, which notably have taken charge of their own destinies and exercize the kinds of social control needed to survive without international assistance.
Life and natural forces treat societal stupidity with cruelty. And that is the way things ought to be left alone to work out for the inevitable destinies of fools.
Arnold Harris
Mount Horeb WI