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We need to know: Can We Stop Volcanoes with Solar Panels?
Quick set up a summit. Give me a grant. Climate Change causes more rain (except when it causes more drought), and apparently the weight of “up to” four meters of monsoon rainfall can compress a crustal plate leading to earthquakes.
Now, four meters of rain means a lot to a pitiful 1.8 meter homo sapiens, but it’s hard to believe a plate of rock 30 kilometers thick would care less or even notice. It’s all absurd.
The whole article, written by a “Reader in Physical Geography” at Coventry Uni makes out the climate change is all around us, but unwittingly depends on the idea that the Sun is just a big torch shining on Earth, and not a raging nuclear magnetic dynamo 300,000 times bigger than the planet, blasting us with charged particles at a million miles an hour and with a magnetic field that stretches past Pluto. Poor Dr Blackett with his 20 years of university education was never taught about the Sun. He has a pretty graph pointing out some correlation between earthquakes and monsoons but doesn’t once ask if The Sun might be causing both. What’s more likely, that changes in the solar magnetic field destabilize tectonic plates or your SUV does?
And we don’t even need to guess, it’s already very well established that solar cycles are linked to rainfall, jetstreams, floods, and groundwater, even unpaid bloggers know this. If only universities had not devolved into propaganda houses where people can write abject drivel and there’s not a single well trained person left to point it out. It’s cruel, except he’s paid well to write this.
He probably thinks he’s being provocative, but he’s just proving what a wasteland Big Government Science is:
How climate change might trigger more earthquakes and volcanic eruptions
Matthew Blackett, The Conversation
A warmer atmosphere can retain more water vapour, subsequently leading to higher levels of precipitation.
Interestingly, geologists have long identified a relationship between rainfall rates and seismic activity. In the Himalayas, for example, the frequency of earthquakes is influenced by the annual rainfall cycle of the summer monsoon season. Research reveals that 48% of Himalayan earthquakes strike during the drier pre-monsoon months of March, April and May, while just 16% occur in the monsoon season.
During the summer monsoon season, the weight of up to 4 metres of rainfall compresses the crust both vertically and horizontally, stabilising it. When this water disappears in the winter, the effective “rebound” destabilises the region and increases the number of earthquakes that occur.
It’s like reading tea-leaves:
He’s worried that climate change might melt glaciers and cause decompression melting to occur in the mantle leading to volcanoes. But he’s reassured “phew” because there was a lag of several hundred years…
It’s a cult.
Read the few comments left at The Conversion site where people like us are theoretically banned.
“We are truly too late to do anything that will prevent this disaster.”
The crazy index might jump a bit with this so called information about tectonics. Universities, who supposedly are the wellspring of knowledge and science have lost their way now. When will they face the facts we live on a vibrant planet with often turbulent events. The rubbish published and pushed by the devotees of the Climate Change religion is getting crazier year by year. This year we have had “hottest year EVER!!”
Boiling oceans??? and now ignoring the sun’s influences. Can hardly wait for the next enthralling episode of the weird and crazy.
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Biden Announces By 2025 All Wildfires Must Be Electric
Meanwhile
Disaster Relief Plane Flies Over Hawaii On Way To Ukraine
U.S. — According to sources, a plane carrying emergency supplies and $10 Billion in disaster relief flew over the Hawaiian island of Maui on its way to Ukraine.
Upon seeing the chaos below, the aircraft’s pilot reportedly muttered to himself. “Hmm, I wonder why we aren’t going there. Oh well! Ukraine, here we come!”
The crew aboard the disaster relief plane reportedly took exciting photos of the Hawaiian destruction that they agree will make for a great addition to their disaster scrapbook.
At publishing time, the pilot had been awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom for expertly navigating the plane around the pillar of smoke that rose up from the smoldering ruins of Maui like a furnace, saving the aircraft from being covered in soot.
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we are going through a solar maximum and “scientists” are concerned about CO2 and El Ninos. Let us hope Sol is not going to bath us in gamma rays.
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The purveyor of truth Jo,
Did say with a frown,
“These stupid dumb journos”,
“They’re dragging science down!”.
If science were a painting,
With the truth a mere fleck,
The journos care not one jot,
For “here comes my cheque!”
But the oceans did not boil,
And the air did not warm,
But the lies must go on,
For that is the norm.
The pollies did preach,
From towers on high,
Pay us more taxes,
Or for sure you’ll all die.
Soon the masses did wake,
From their slumber so deep,
It’s all been fat lies,
They treated us like sheep!
But the damage was done,
Pollies knew not what to do,
If it’s over for we sheeple,
It is for you too.
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Great poem. Write more, good gift
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NYT
U.S. to Fund a $1.2 Billion Effort to Vacuum Greenhouse Gases From the Sky
Many scientists are skeptical of the technology, and environmentalists have criticized the approach.
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Is it April the 1st again?
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Only if you’re woke.
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“the next enthralling episode”
I hope it is something new. I’m tired with the same old schist.
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isostatic rebound (post glaciation) is a recognised phenomenon.
Water effectively acting to lubricate faults in an area already under significant tectonic or other geomechanical stress, is also a real thing.
isostatic rebound (in otherwise relatively stable locations) due to heavy rainfall… I remain unconvinced, very much unconvinced.
What I would have liked to see is a comparison of Icelandic volcanic activity pre-, and post-glacial accretion. 1000 years is really not that much time in the scheme of things. It’s also hard to imagine the mantle reacting to being decompressed in a timeframe that strongly correlates with glacial retreat.
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Kilometres of ice will do it – do people have absolutely no understanding of how enourmous geological forces are? Perhaps only when earthquakes devastate whole cities. So movements of the plates over the mantle simply dont get noticed – yet think of how much energy is locked away into doing that. PS – I am a geologist with over 50 years working in that field!
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I picked up a factoid a few years ago and have always wondered if it was true? Apparently, there is no Nobel Science prize for Geology because Nobel’s wife had an affair with a geologist. Is that true?
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With the Nobel family’s penchant for making things go BOOM! surely that geologist met an untimely, and unfortunate, end. of. story.
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Yes, Mrs Noble said the bloke was dynamite
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Ross,
We geological types have a reputation for being ahead of the pack, earned by various examples. Geoff S
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“it’s hard to believe a plate of rock 30 kilometers thick would care less or even notice. It’s all absurd.”
Hard to believe, but it would notice if your meter was sensitive enough. Until I read James Murphy’s post above I would not have expected it to care.
I was in a factory where they manufactured weighing scales for farmers. I saw a man gluing a small plate about the size of a postage stamp with two wires coming off it to the side of a steel bar about 60 cm long by 12 mm thick by about 50 mm wide. He was taking care to position it precisely in the middle of the bar. The bar had a pair of staggered holes at each end.
Apparently that little device had a zig zag of iron wire in it, for which electrical resistance varied with deformation.
That bar on edge carried up to two tonnes, but the basic unit was 100 grams.
So 100 grams caused a measurable deflection in the bar. Hard to believe.
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It’s no longer about science, not that it ever really was, but scary stories written by professional propagandists, designed to terrify the masses.
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Looking at the graph it seems that 8 of the 17 have a higher pre-Monsoon earthquake, whereas 5 have a higher post-earthquake and the rest a higher earthquake between times. Yes, there is 3 years when the pre-Monsoon earthquake is quite high, although there isn’t any way of working out how severe those pre-Monsoon earthquake were.
Might well be a random effect.
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Climate Change causes some people to say some crazy things like –
1. Climate Change causes acne.
2. Climate change causes frothing at the mouth.
3. Climate Change causes some so called Scientist to fly around in ever decreasing circles until they finally disappear up their own
orifice. This one is TRUE BTW. LOL.
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David,
Science like journalism has reward for obedience to dogma . I keep following the science , but it keeps leading me back to the money . Who knew bovine excreta could cause so much fear ?
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Aristotle made many contributions to knowledge, including the Scientific Method itself, but his view that the earth was eternal and unchanging is now proven to be wrong.
The world and everything in it is dynamic and endlessly changing, something that warmists and other climate catastrophists fail to understand.
The same people who today want to return our civilisation to the times before the Scientific Revolution and Industrial Revolution want to return us to the Aristotelian view of a static, never changing world.
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Umm, does the 4 meters of rain just sit everywhere on the surface leading to a 4 meter deep flood everywhere during each monsoon? If so, the entire population would have to be evacuated every monsoon or they would all drown.
But if instead it runs off through rivers while the rain is still falling there is no excess weight as the author claims.
I suspect it is far more likely that copious rain fills deep aquifers which stabilises the strata. It is well known that removing water from deep underground causes subsidence and instability, one of the reasons uncontrolled use of deep bores is viewed with caution.
As the ground dries out more and more between monsoons these aquifers probably partly drain which could cause more earthquakes prior to refilling during the monsoon. An entirely natural phenomenon but I doubt that an increase in monsoonal rain (if it exists) would have any incremental impact.
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This is 100% idiocy, but some stupid lefties will still BELIEVE.
Meanwhile we know that deaths from earthquakes and volcanoes are mot increasing , even while the population has increased from 5.3 billion in 1990 to over 8 billion today.
And deaths from extreme weather events have dropped by over 95% in the last 100 years.
And less than 2 billion in 1920 to over 8 billion in 2023 or over 6 billion more people at risk today. THINK.
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Yes Neville. Many on the Left have serious problems with their view of the world. They are the modern day “chicken littles” always screaming that the sky is falling, and failing to realise it never does.
The Leftist is completely consumed with ideology and dutifully follows his or her fellows for clues as to the way to act. There is little or no engagement of the brain, only in divining new ways to try to stop whatever it is they are against (and believe me, they are against most of what is part of our modern society).
The Left in the end always destroy their own and in the end their idiocy is their undoing. The problem is that the madness can last for decades. Witness the Soviet Union with its demented rules and epidemic of political correctness…
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More “political science”.
Even a mathematical no-hoper like me can grasp the difference between continental-scale ice sheets 6Km thick and a couple of metres of rain. A quick tour of the interesting sites that clearly show SOLID ROCK, FOLDED like a Calzone. The forces to do such things take forces and time-scales of epic proportions, NOT a minor rain “event”..
The magnetic Pole reverses that litter the geological past are a dead giveaway that all is NOT “sweetness and light” beneath our feet.
The planet is NOT set in cosmic Aspic. It is STILL COOLING from its initial condensation from the “dust-field”. As it cools, it SHRINKS. The enormous tides of material steadily churning away in the mantle, and fueled by nuclear “fires”. are responsible for shuffling the thin, solidified bits of crust around. Things get bent and broken in the process. As they say in the classics: “Always have, always will” (entropy notwithstanding).
The planetary magnetic field that is produced by the rotation of the core is THE planetary shield against planetary “sterilization”. That the poles actually FLIP, with monotonous regularity is one of Natures little jokes. As the field starts to move, it diminishes, apparently. If you do not believe that the magnetic poles move, you need to look at a REAL map. These contain a small but vital reference to a factor known as “Magnetic Deviation”. This tells you how to calculate the deviation between “true” North, Magnetic North and GRID North. It may just save your life. If the planet’s magnetic field diminishes seriously, or vanishes completely, all the undesirable cosmic nasties from the Sun, start reaching the rotating planetary surface. EVERYTHING on the surface gets COOKED in this radiation bath. You will need something better than SPF 50 when it happens. Actual scientists, the Rock Doctors, have known about his since the late 1950s.
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Those magnetic lines of deviation are not constant either. In some places magnetic north as per the compass is somewhere to the east. Depends on the folding of the crust as you say. We are to the Earth no more than the ant is to Ayers Rock.
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Absolutely – my house has a fire blanket over the whole building below the roof – it is comprised of 3 layers of thick aluminium between layers of woven glass fibres – I reckon I have a fighting chance of surviving the pole reversal if it comes in the next 10 years!
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Jo you are so cynical with your headline. Don’t you realise some folk will be distraught that you could make so light of it. I mean climate change is everything. Two plus two equals climate catastrophe and global boiling.
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Tectonic movement of crustal plates, while occurring constantly, are not caused by the sun’s magnetic field, nor are they caused by surface rainfall. I find it so cynical of the look-at-me Dr. Blackett to even promote the rainfall lie. Plate edge collisions, frontal or sideways or both simultaneously, occur constantly at what we call subduction zones. When strain energy reaches the elastic limit of the rock suite somewhere along strike of the collision, the rock pile at that point ruptures.
The ceaseless roiling of the inner and outer mantles (with the inner mantle kept to melting point by the enormously high temperature of the iron-nickel alloy of the inner core) carries the solid surface crustal plates around like the thin skin on boiled milk. A very slow process to be sure, but an observable one.
For those interested, there is an area in northern India (inhabited with a few small villages) where a section of the subduction zone of the north-moving Indian plate colliding with and sliding under the Eurasian plate’s Ladakh batholith has been exposed through weathering and erosion. The resulting displayed spectacle is wondrous indeed. It is labelled as a “suture” zone and I cannot think of a more apt description. One can easily find these great photos and maps by searching for the “Indus Suture Zone”.
But please, as has been pointed out on this site a few times, do some real geoscientific research before pontificating on geology. Ascribing tectonic plate movements to the influence of the sun’s magnetic field is as silly as Blackett’s screechy surface rainfall b/s.
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ianl. Solar Magnetic influence doesn’t have to drive tectonic plate movement, just to influence the forces at the edges. There are correlations between proton density, velocity (as measured by SOHO) and seismic activity- “the piezoelectric effect”. Others are looking at induction heating by the star’s magnetic field, and whether it can drive volcanic activity. Volcanic eruptions are linked to cosmic rays which are obviously influenced by the Sun. I’ll do a post…
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Oohh… the effects of cosmic particles on magma pockets, influencing volcanic activity.
I look forward to an article.
Maybe it’ll touch on isohype reconnection events too.
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Something truly fascinating is doing charts and drawings on particle movements on the Sun’s Exhaust Gases.
It effects every planet in a locked in position to the Sun
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At 5 1/4 added rotation of the Sun currently gives a pretty good accuracy to the particles velocities.
Add distance creates a multitude of different particles at different velocities as pressure and distance weakens it’s effects.
Just my own research totally not being supported by our politicians and academia.
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Jo,
There are mind boggling amounts of moving pieces in the puzzle you are looking at . When you look at the scale of the earth compared to the sun , the earth is a tiny piece of a larger puzzle . Even deep thought would only give you probabilities…
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If you complete their illogical thought loop, you get “killing birds and chopping down entire forests reduces earthquakes, as well as floods, fires, droughts, cyclones and heat waves”. This is all beyond crazy, but it fits perfectly with their new age Orwellian group-think and truth-telling, where the facts are what the Marxist elites say and everything else becomes the lie. Ironically, the theory of plate tectonics was originally dismissed in a historical act of consensus lead anti-science and now history repeats, but in a far more bizarre and dangerous form.
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Too many people miss the point. Yes there are idiots like Chris Bowen and the unlearned professor here who actually believe the BS of climate change. Those driving the hoax however are truly evil people trying, and succeeding, in changing the world for the worse. Bill Gates was not fooling when he says that our population should be no more than half a billion. What hubris makes him think that he should be in that half billion and the other seven and a half billion should just go away starved and dying of manufactured virusus and vaccines, the cold and frequent wars. It appals me that so many believe this rubbish and even promote it to the detriment of those they are sworn, in some cases, to serve and protect. The fight back is real and I think it is winning hence the panic setting in among the elite (more properly called the evil). How do I know? The pronouncements are more ridiculous (global boiling), the reporting is much subdued, and the general populace totally ignore it. The nuclear option in Australian power industry is gaining ground as people can see the lie of cheap renewables. Even the young can see that floods and droughts are fairly normal and that very few people have suffered even the falsified warming from the BoM and others. The more extreme the cries of disaster the more stupid they seem. The more stupid you have to be to believe them.
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The Elites think there are too many of we “useless eaters”, what the National Socialists called Unnütze Esser. They would like to settle with around 500 million of us as slaves with maybe 1% Elites.
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Is there intelligent life on Planet Earth? Once there was – but no longer. Even the aliens in their flying saucers have stopped visiting the USA. The only nation on Earth that has been visited BTW.
Beam me up Scotty.
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Note that search for intelligent life has all the instruments facing out toward the cosmos!
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Probable visitation from superior being’s flying in late at night this weekend at Cardwell, Nth Qld for the UFO festival. Tin hats a plenty!
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It’s ironical isn’t it when the climate realists get accused of being conspiracy theorists and mainstream science publishes junk like this?
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At a news conference last week in Brussels, Christiana Figueres, executive secretary of U.N.’s Framework Convention on Climate Change, admitted that the goal of environmental activists is not to save the world from ecological calamity but to destroy capitalism.
“This is the first time in the history of mankind that we are setting ourselves the task of intentionally, within a defined period of time, to change the economic development model that has been reigning for at least 150 years, since the Industrial Revolution,” she said.
Referring to a new international treaty environmentalists hope will be adopted at the Paris climate change conference later this year, she added: “This is probably the most difficult task we have ever given ourselves, which is to intentionally transform the economic development model for the first time in human history.”
The only economic model in the last 150 years that has ever worked at all is capitalism. The evidence is prima facie: From a feudal order that lasted a thousand years, produced zero growth and kept workdays long and lifespans short, the countries that have embraced free-market capitalism have enjoyed a system in which output has increased 70-fold, work days have been halved and lifespans doubled.
A bit wordy I know but this from 2015.
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The left need to acknowledge capitalism as the only Voice that guarantees growth & quality of life.
“ Voice “ combined with socialism will lead to the opposite of what capitalism offers.
Recent examples :- Zimbabwe being closely followed by South Africa! Not to mention many other examples on that continent of chaos!
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[Snip]. The Chinese think they are on a winner in Africa but they will find the place uncontrollable. Their aim of course is to have that resource rich country to themselves so they not only have the resources but the slave labour to dig it up.
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It gets tricky.
As I recall, it was the communists who actually invented the term “Capitalist” as a handy bit of opprobrium in their dogma.
Prior to that, the term “mercantilism” hardly rated, either. Ditto all the other “Isms” that infest language these days.
“Trade” along with growing, making, selling, etc, was just the way stuff had been done for at least 12000 years. Even out indigenous cousins “traded” goods for as long as they have been here. The wave, (waves?) before them probably did much the same. However, in these benighted times, Confirmation or even hypothesizing such things will get you “unpersonned” by the usual suspects.
The “invention” of the intermediary element known as “money”, be it cowrie shells on a string or metallic coins in a bag, made things a bit more convenient as well as disruptive of the “old ways”.
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In 1927 Stalin implemented his first five year economic plan. 7.5 million died by 1933. And that was just the first five year plan. But Mao, with help of some New Deal alumnus, out did that by quite a wide margin. The toll of that change to the “economic development model” was 40 million.
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At this rate Bill Gates will excel both of them. If you consider all the dodgy vaccine and health programs he has been involved with over the years, plus Moderna COVID injectable genetic therapy, he’ll put both Stalin and Mao in the shade.
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The Elites think there are too many of we “useless eaters”, what the National Socialists called Unnütze Esser. They would like to settle with around 500 million of us as slaves with maybe 1% Elites.
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The left need to acknowledge capitalism as the only Voice that guarantees growth & quality of life.
“ Voice “ combined with socialism will lead to the opposite of what capitalism offers.
Recent examples :- Zimbabwe being closely followed by South Africa!
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It is so generous of Ms. Figueres. She wants to destroy the system which keeps her alive. I survived socialism once, and I might not survive it again. Ms. Figueres should move to North Korea. The whole UN should move there as well, or at least to China. What are they waiting for?
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no of windmills required to stop Earthquakes and Volcanoes
= total government subsidy/ foreign corporation holdings
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>Climate change causes Earthquakes and Volcanoes again…
Or the reverse:
The Exothermic (Cyclic) Core Theory of Climate Change
https://theethicalskeptic.com/
Synopsis
1. The Earth’s core undergoes extreme exothermic change – sloughing high-latent-energy hexagonal closepack (HCP) iron from its H-layer and into the outer core where it converts to liquid face centered cubic (FCC/BCC) iron plus kinetic energy (latent heat of phase transition). Core magnetic permeability weakens and its geomagnetic dipole wanders. Earth’s rotation speeds up on a decadal basis from the loss in magnetic coupling from outer core to mantle.
2. The exothermic heat content from this eventually reaches Earth’s asthenosphere. Deep crude acyclic alkane pockets are heated and accelerate fractional and volatile organic compound release into atmosphere. Methane ppms far outpace model predictions. Carbon-12-rich oceans and now-warmer tundra each spring solar warming, both release proportionally more carbon.
3. Abyssal ocean conveyance belts pull novel heat content from small-footprint yet now much hotter contribution points exposed to the asthenosphere – and convey (not conduct, convect, nor radiate) this novel heat content through oceanic advection and upwelling systems to the surface of the ocean. Abyssal ocean currents (and consequently surface ones as well) speed up from the discrete addition of kinetic energy. Arctic and Antarctic polar ice sheets melt rapidly in winter from the bottom up. Land desiccates more quickly and wildfires erupt earlier and out-of-season, especially near heat plumes.
4. Ocean heats atmosphere (or fails to cool it as well as it once did) much more readily than atmosphere heats ocean. This exothermic core-to-mantle equilibrium is cyclic, and can and will eventually reverse.
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Can’t answer to any of this and don’t know if I subscribe to it but this seems an opportune time for presentation.
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Deaths from natural disasters have seen a huge decline since 1960 and this includes earthquakes, volcanos and landslides.
This shows decadal deaths per 100,000 people since 1900 from OWI Data.
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/decadal-average-death-rates-from-natural-disasters
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Even heavy rain can’t be able,
To break through the water table,
Which is just metres deep,
Then through kilometres seep,
To make tectonic plates unstable.
Already sent to ‘Saturday’ in error.
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…and that 2500mm or so of monsoon rain per year somehow penetrates a 15-20km or so thick Earth’s crust and influences quakes.
Sounds entirely credible.
As a plus, the monsoons will also extinguish any volcanoes should they erupt.
And of course, geologists always embrace new ideas and discoveries unlike other sciences.
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True story.
I accompanied a bunch of geologists on a field trip while at an overseas conference. I am not a geologist so the conversations mostly flew high over my head. I entertained myself by exploring the exposed rocks alongside a river, where I found a strange pattern which to me looked like a fossilised fern. I pointed it out to the leader of the group but he dismissed it as nothing, just odd but meaningless, random discolouration.
A year or so later, his newly-discovered fossil plant was named after him.
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That’s terrible but not surprising, typical of academic “leadership” these days.
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So hopefully the plant was named ‘Ignoramus Selfishness’ after him.
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Climate change also causes arsonists. Most forest fires in North America now are set by humans.
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The Sun our morning Star controls all climate changes here on Earth. The cosmic ray flux that flows from the weakening Sun increases when the Sun diminishes. This is significant because cosmic rays are the big climate factor that affects the climate on Earth.
It affects us in numerous ways. The increase in cosmic ray flux, which ionizes our atmosphere ever more, results in increased global cloudiness. This is so because ionization enhances the normal cloud-forming process, in some cases, up to 100-fold. The resulting increased cloudiness, of course, reflects ever more sunlight back into space, which results in the now-experienced increase in global cooling. The solar wind has nothing to do with that. The increase in cloudiness and increased rain out of the clouds, of course, diminishes the water vapor density in the atmosphere. This is significant because water vapor generates over 90 % of the greenhouse effect of the atmosphere. When this effect diminishes, the moderating effect of the greenhouse diminishes with it. As a result, the climate becomes increasingly erratic with larger temperature differentials between hot and cold climate anomalies like the EI Nino we are experiencing right now. The diminishing solar wind pressure itself is only significant as an indicator of how far we have progressed on the front of global cooling, and how much more cooling is yet to come until we reach the point when the Sun begins to dim, which adds further to the cooling. The progressive cooling accompanied by the reduced moderating greenhouse effect is presently the major factor on the climate scene today.
This means we are heading towards a full ice age that will likely erupt in the 2050s. However, we need to act now to get ready for it, because what we need to build is big. So don’t be fooled by the Sun’s constant surface temperature.
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There is a hypthesis not likely to appear in the MSM is that the Solar System circlates around the Milky Wave galaxy, meaning that it passes through various ‘arms’ of this spiral galaxy with higher cosmic ray intensities, hence more clouds – less sunlight – less temperature.
It even made the New Scientist but unfortunately this has now been ‘disappeared’ from my search engine.
THe nearest I came see is https://www.use-due-diligence-on-climate.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Historical-Temperatures-1.jpg
The New Scientist is, of course, one of the “New Science” propaganda types (and losing sales), but I have included it as the clearest graph.
There are more accurate diagrams with a less indication of the effect. You will notice that the ICE AGE (geological i.e.Ice sheets at one or both poles) lasts about 35 to 50 million years. The problem is that we don’t know when this one started as the Antarctic ice sheet variously is described as starting 38 millions years ago, or 34 million, or 25 million or 14 million years ago. I’m hoping the first applies.
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Those pesky sunspots they come and go, come and go. ::::
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August 10, 2023
Testing the Army’s New Electric Combat Vehicle (A Parable)
By Peropus Consiliario
The following essay is satire, but the Biden administration’s push for the creation of an Electric Combat Vehicle and the requirement for handicapped spaces at each charging station (wherever they may be) are real.
With the desire of the Biden Administration to push the military into using renewable energy and electric vehicles wherever possible, field testing of the Army’s new Electric Combat Vehicle (ECV) began in May of 2024. The first six, each costing $227,000, were built on the chassis of the Ford F-150 Lightning battery-powered pickup truck. They were delivered to Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland for testing.
Hard bumps on test tracks ruptured two of the batteries. Within seconds the electrolytic fluid in them erupted into flames that the fire department was unable to extinguish.
After that testing, Army Public Affairs issued a glowing press release about how well the four surviving ECVs had performed while not mentioning the two charred hulks that had to be dealt with by Hazmat crews.
In July, ECV testing moved to Fort Irwin, California, to see how they performed in intense desert heat. Four new ECVs were added to the fleet. Within hours of being driven off-road in the trackless desert, they began to experience a high rate of tire failures that slowed their travel.
Keep Reading for the Future under Idiots
On the second night, the soldiers ran out of the diesel fuel they had brought for their heaters so, to keep from freezing to death, they asked MSgt. Wolford for permission to rupture a couple of the ECV batteries so the flames could be used to keep them warm.
With appropriate concern for the welfare of his soldiers, he told them to go ahead. Within minutes the soldiers had exposed the first two batteries. They beat on them with whatever tools they had to try to rupture the casings. Soon the flames pushed back cold and saved their lives.
Another day would pass before rescue helicopters could find and evacuate the soldiers. When they arrived, six of the ECVs were charred hulks.
MSgt. Wolford submitted his report and, within days, received notice that he was being suspended from duty and notified that he was being charged with four felonies for the willful destruction of government property along with four counts of parking an unauthorized vehicle in a handicapped space.
At his court-martial, MSgt. Wolford’s defense was that he and his troops were in a desperate situation where their survival was at stake, so they had done what they could just to survive. The judge agreed and dismissed the felony charges.
However, the judge was unable to dismiss the parking tickets, and MSgt. Wolford was forced to pay fines totaling more than a thousand dollars.
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Always though good correlation with moon orbit and earthquakes around the pacific rim. Every time we get a full moon opposite the sun earthquakes arc up around the rim. Gotta give it to the met guys, there BETTER be an El Nino this year or there will be a lot of unhappy soothsayers. Some idiot was trying to explain why there are no ECLs this year. Explaining about how there is no upper level lows to sustain the weather pattern…and Im looking at a stream of latitudinal jets and highs way to the south of the continent. Sun influence has changed. Remember reading something about hurricanes in the atlantic not occuring below a certain latitude because the jets blow out the upper level low…good possibility for ECLs here. ALSO we havent got the influence of a mega explosion ( influence by a full moon and a quiet sun with heaps of cosmic rays pounding the mantle???) dumping millions of tonnes of water and particulates into the upper troposphere and lower stratosphere in the last five years..may also have something to do with it. Anyways snow is copping a bit of an early melt this year. Could be good because all the dams are bloody full and the major rivers are running at low flood pretty early. just wish these guys would stop with the predicting and get with the observing.
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If the West continues on its present route this sick joke might well start looking like reality 🙁
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AGAIN here’s their co2 emissions data since 1988, or since Dr Hansen’s speech in Washington DC.
In 1988 OECD co2 emissions = 11.54 billion Ts co2 per annum.
In 1988 the NON OECD co2 emissions= 10 billion Ts co2 per annum.
But by 2021 the OECD = 11.70 billion Ts co2 per annum.
And NON OECD = 24.40 billion Ts co2 per annum.
So by 2021 the OECD have added just 0.16 billion Ts extra of co2 per annum.
And by 2021 the NON OECD have added an extra 14.40 billion Ts co2 per annum.
So if extra co2 is the basis for their religious beliefs, I think we should nail down the actual EXTRA co2 increases since 1988.
And the NON OECD contribution is 90 times the contribution of the OECD countries over that 33 years or 1988 to 2021.
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/annual-co2-emissions-per-country?country=Non-OECD+%28GCP%29~OECD+%28GCP%29
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Seems like the revealing question since Dr. Hansen’s speech is …
‘is there anything under water that wasn’t already under water in 1988′?
Wake me up when beach front real estate prizes go down.
Ya’ know the true ‘science’ question of our age, an age where the most magnificent library of all time is held in the hand of nearly every person on Earth, is …
‘why are the smart people so dumb’?
(BTW, thank you as I learnt a new acronym ‘Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development’ … Gawd, not another one.)
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If this post is correct then 2025 will be a bad year – that is when the solar max is due
Otherwise on this post: Does the paper establish a relationship between water and ‘quakes – well yes it does.
Does the paper show that wetter years have more or bigger earthquakes – well yes it does
Does the paper assert that climate change is likely to increase rainfall – yes it does
Does that assertion stand up – well based on world data, yes it does..
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Perhaps Jo could provide data, evidence, and correlation for her theory?
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A large increase in the temperature of the troposphere in the tropics is evident. This may have been influenced by the eruption of an underwater volcano, supplying large amounts of water vapor to the troposphere (in the tropics). This coincided with a weak El Niño. The effect of increased water vapor in the troposphere will be offset by a strong monsoon in India and the western Pacific.
https://www.nsstc.uah.edu/climate/2023/July2023/JULY_2023.png
http://tropic.ssec.wisc.edu/real-time/mtpw2/webAnims/tpw_nrl_colors/global2/mimictpw_global2_latest.gif
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Usually volcanos cool the planet, but on this occasion its global warming.
‘Both NASA and the European Space Agency are reporting that the eruption ejected enough water into the atmosphere to temporarily raise the Earth’s temperature.
‘Peer reviewed studies have estimated that Hunga Tonga-Hunga Haʻapai’s eruption added the equivalent of 10 percent to 13 percent of the pre-existing water vapor into the upper atmosphere, between 8 and 33 miles above the Earth’s surface where it will remain for years to come. (WUWT)
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There is no evidence that water vapor in the stratosphere raises the temperature of the surface and troposphere.
The increase in tropospheric temperature in the tropics is perhaps about 0.5 C, but the area significantly increased. At the same time, the current sea surface temperature indicates an easterly circulation in the central Pacific.
https://i.ibb.co/6XjsP2b/cdas-sflux-sst-global-1.png
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On The Conversation website: ‘We believe in experts’.
Richard Feynman: “Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts”.
All you need to know.
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Ed,
The Conversation: “We believe in experts.
I cannot claim to be an expert on more than a couple of obscure topics, but I can claim to be the first scientist given a permanent ban by that rag.
How can a publication that believes experts claim to be truthful when it bans what the experts write, before publication?
It is a sham.
Do not take The Conversation seriously.
Geoff S
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‘Lions, and earthquakes, and volcanos OH MY!’
https://youtu.be/-HrfbV16-FQ
If you venture into the forest, don’t forget your N95 mask, your 5th booster, and be on the lookout for MAGA Insurrectionists and White Supr …
oh wait, that’s the same thing.
P.S. If you are a science nerd and are aware that lions, tigers, and bears, usually do not share the same forests or continents, you probably are also skeptical of AGW and mandates, and the Wizard Dan Andrews is coming for you.
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Ross,
We geological types have a reputation for being ahead of the pack, earned by various examples. Geoff S
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A good introduction to the wild world of scientific dogma in the face of the steady accumulation of geological evidence, is Simon Winchester’s book: “The Map that Changed the World”. (The tale of William Smith and the birth of a Science).
In 1801, Smith published a map of “English” (and Welsh and some Scottish) geology, that looks remarkably similar to “modern” maps of the same subject. It also had permanent effects on Paleontology and other fields like Geomorphology and mineral exploration.
In the best of British “Boys Own Adventures” style, this is the story of the rise of an “orphaned” farm boy to the inner sanctum of the science community. A “Ripping Yarn”, but true! And Smith was, like several others of that era, a polymath, for good measure. (As Robert Heinlein noted: “…..Specialization is for insects.”
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During the decades I spent mixing with geologists and geophysicists, there was occasional discussion about the causes of earthquakes and their prediction. We followed the rather speculative hypotheses about fault lubrication from water injection and saw this develop into reasons to rebel against fracking. We mixed with People eminent in the developing field of plate tectonics, we followed the interesting expanding earth hypothesis of Prof Carey et al. Such matters were peripheral to our main work, but were interesting in the way that newspaper readers got attached to the challenge of crosswords.
I cannot recall any advance about quake causes or forecasting that proved to be useful. I suspect we are still at that hopeful but unrewarding stage. Too much goes on at depths below the surface that are too great for useful measurements.
We went through the event of the Russian super-deep Kola borehole and detailed measurements. I evolved a mechanism for shallow earthquakes unrelated to fault movement, instead related to pressure events with depth, metamorphism and water, but it failed to excite. Mentioned to show how we liked intellectual puzzles. But those were earlier times, when Science was done with reason, method and a quest for truth. Sad to see high aspirations degraded by the poor science that vomits forth from kiddy authors in the climate sector these
days. Geoff S
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Man-made climate change is like fortune telling. They say something bad will happen, but can’t say what or when. When something bad happens they exclaim ‘Ha! Told you, and it’s YOUR fault’.
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That’s why Global Warming became CC. Anything that happens can be attributed. Any and all weather events. Cold snaps as well as heat waves. Droughts and floods. Fires. Earth quakes. Tsunamis. Hurricanes. Tornadoes. Heavy snow fall. Light snow fall. Wind storms, Calms, Glacial retreats. Glacial advances, Extinction of species, Crop failures. Bumper crops. …
It’s also why we should not use their modified language. When global warming predictions fail, hold their feet to the fire by pointing it out using their term; global warming.
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Yet another example of a climate expert lacking any sense of proportion. Two other examples are
1. A 2C rise in average temperatures in a century will cause the end of humanity, but hundreds of thousands who moved from the UK to Australia enduring a 10C+ rise in average temperatures not just survived but mostly prospered.
2. A 20cm rise in sea levels over 120 years is of serious concern, but a daily tidal range of 3m to 10m at Ilfracombe in Devon is just a curiosity.
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Yes, Europeans live from the poles to the equator – by adapting.
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So this four metres of rainfall just sits there weighing down the land does it? It doesn’t perhaps run off down rivers back to where it comes from?
To the terminally deranged of the climate cult I guess that stopping the water cycle in its tracks is part of the ‘consensus’.
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Of course it’s a cult. Cults are based upon faith and are beyond question. Very sad really.
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