Well, perhaps all the Warmists in the big cities should have stopped using fossil fuels, gave up meat for bugs, and stopped using so much electricity. Still your fault
Massive climate-induced earthquakes are brewing beneath our biggest cities. Are we prepared?
Astonishingly, earthquakes shake the US state of California around 10,000 times a year, on average – that’s about once every hour.
California’s official nickname is the Golden State, harking back to the mid-19th-century gold rush that saw its population explode in just four years, from 14,000 to a quarter of a million.
But if you’ve ever been lucky enough to visit and felt the ground move beneath your feet, you’ll probably agree that ‘the Earthquake State’ is a far better fit.
None of this should be a surprise given that it hosts the San Andreas Fault, where two of the world’s great tectonic plates – the North American plate to the east and the Pacific plate to the west – meet.
So, the People’s Republic Of California is an earthquake zone, right? Totally natural
When we think about climate change, it’s usually in terms of how the atmosphere and oceans are heating up. The idea that it can also affect the ground beneath our feet seems almost laughable. Nonetheless, it’s true.
For decades, I’ve been researching how the climate can drive deadly geological phenomena, like earthquakes, tsunamis and volcanic eruptions, and the evidence is absolutely clear. (snip)
As global heating continues to drive longer and more intense heatwaves, meltwater sourced by accelerated glacier melting and the thawing of permafrost can be expected to increase seismic activity across the world’s high mountain ranges, and the great tracts of permafrost in Canada and Siberia.
As well as raising concerns among those who live in the Mont Blanc region, the Swiss research also holds lessons for any town or city on geological faults that have spawned big quakes in the past; think Tokyo in Japan, and San Francisco and Los Angeles in California. (snip)
The big worry isn’t, as in the Alps, that water will trigger swarms of little quakes, but that the infiltration of water into a fault that’s teetering on the edge of rupturing will set off the ‘big one’.
A seismologist colleague of mine is fond of warning that all that’s needed to trigger a major earthquake at a fault that’s ‘locked and loaded’ is the pressure of a handshake.
Good grief. Earthquakes happen, always have. Was the big 1906 earthquake Your Fault? How much “melting glacier” water is leaking into the San Andreas, which really runs not close to the mountains in California? This is pretty much doomsday cultists manufacturing the end point and then creating “data” to prove it, the very reverse of science. It’s basically “how do we blame earthquakes, tsunamis, and volcanic eruptions on ‘climate change’? We’ll say Mankind is at fault then create the data to back it up.”
