Haiti earthquake is once gain nature’s fury. Does it gotta do anything with global warming?.. and where was the more casualities ever recorded after natural disaster??
Global earthquakes are more dangerous than global warming.
How should we stop global earthquakes? Is there something I can buy like green products to stop them?
What can government do to stop global earthquakes? Are humans to blame for global earthquakes?
I saw a study today that said the bees are mysteriously vanishing and that this is a major threat to the world’s food supply. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/honeybee_die_off
Since Global Warming, Hurricanes, and Terrorism have all been laid at his feet, how long before dying bees is added to the list of his sins?
Ignorant answers encouraged.
The issue is caused by industry and personal choices.
The effects may have major implications for the economy, health care, immigration, disaster relief, and the availability of water, food, and energy.
Deciding how to respond involves decisions on personal and societal mores and values.
The solutions must encompass industrial policy, transportation policy, regional planning, energy policy, international relations and collaboration, and so much more.
Since it’s such an all-encompassing scenario, starts with people and ends with effects on people, and since most of the human scope of the effects are not studied or addressed in the course of environmental science, why does it get tucked away as an "environmental" issue? Most of us see the "environment" as being something outside of "us." Sure, the environment will change along the way, but isn’t the issue far broader and greater, and ultimately more about our choices, and the effects those will have on us?
My guess is that it’s a calculated political move to marginalize support for responses to global warming. Environmentalists embrace it, while everyone else is glad it’s off their plate. Environmentalists can lead the charge tadn the rest of us can wait to see how it turns out. Isn’t that why after 20 years none of the other disciplines is responding (architecture, regional planning, etc)? It’s not their problem.
This is what prompted me to ask the question:
"Disaster preparedness is not an environmental problem." It is a hallmark of environmental rationality to believe that we environmentalists search for "root causes" not "symptoms."
The Death of Environmentalism
Global warming politics in a post-environmental world
http://www.grist.org/news/maindish/2005/01/13/doe-reprint/
Maybe we’re all missing the point by arguing about the causes instead of focusing on the responses?
of ignoring Global Warming as valid by the latest evidence?
Antarctic glaciers surge to ocean
Antartica- glacier there is evidence of a volcano that erupted through the ice about 2,000 years ago and the whole region could be volcanically active-
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7261171.stm
Another earthquake today as well…
JAKARTA, Feb 24 (Reuters) – A 6.6 magnitude earthquake hit Indonesia off the coast of Sumatra island on Sunday, the U.S. Geological Survey reported.
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N24651955.htm
DETROIT (Reuters) – General Motors Corp Vice Chairman Bob Lutz has defended remarks he made dismissing global warming as a "total crock
Biblical Weather Forecast:
the world fades and withers …’ (Isa 24.4)
‘… the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men are left’ (Isa 24.6)
‘There will be … dismay among nations, in perplexity at the roaring of the sea and the waves’ (Lk 21.25)
‘… all the green grass was burned up’ (Rev 8.7)
i have never seen the movie, but Ive read about the movie. and seen pictures from the movie.
when i read the part where he tell some person that due to global warming LA will end up under water, Washington DC will have a megatsumsi and Las Vegas will have a earthquake…
do you think all of that will happen or its just a movie with awesome effects.
i got his info from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_%28film%29
so ive been thinking, and ive had an idea. i just wanted it to get to you guys. i don’t believe the world will end in 2012, but ive been seeing HOW it COULD happen.
i would first like to point this out; an earthquake struck haiti, a place already struggling.
one month later: an even bigger earthquake struck. not only is this earthquake bringing tsunamis to other countries, it also so happens that the earths rotation has been changed and our day has become shorter. i don’t know about you guys, but when i heard that there was an earthquake powerful enough to change the earth’s natural course, i felt that this is a power that only a catastrophic event could exceed. think about it: a 2012 disaster would have that kind of effect, and possibly worse. do you guys understand?
what else could end the world?
oh yeah, almost forgot that some very unfriendly people in North Korea are ignoring pleads from other countries and are deciding to go on with their nuclear bomb programs. yeah, i find it very possible that north korea could start a nuclear war or just bomb its enemies.
oh yeah, iran is gaining radioactive elements, right? or some country in the middle east, i cant remember…
what else could destroy the world/human civilization?
i heard about this thing called global warming. just a little thing, really, unless the ice caps melt. if that happens, guess what? its been calculated that cities like New York with their huge sky scrapers would be thousands of feet under water.
if i can remember correctly, earthquakes starting up, the ice caps melting, and a nuclear war would kill us all. and it would fit the mayan prophecy of the end of the world.
i don’t really believe the world will end, but i think that its possible, and with the latest events, that possibility is getting even bigger.
my International Relations teacher said that frequent earthquakes are a result of global warming. i don’t understand how. anyone? please cite your source.
I’m hearing that they are but I’m not sure how global warming affects earthquakes?
Even after all the devastation last year people are still not ready for this hurricane season (that started today).
Are you ready?
The news said that over 80% of people have done nothing to strengthen their home.
Over 2/3 of the people have NO hurricane plan (they do not stock any supplies or have any evacuation plan if the need arises)!
If I lived in Florida or Louisiana I would be scared of hurricanes (the hurricane season is getting worse every year because of Global Warming). How can they not have plans to get out?!?
That has to keep them up late at night.
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Al4NGWB5ChVaDBwsjER0IcTsy6IX;_ylv=3?qid=20100227200234AAbZaXM
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Aua519XV_AgFWkrU3JRMx63sy6IX;_ylv=3?qid=20100227202136AAyjxaI
@bethy…..no, that may be only you linking earthquakes to global warming. sorry
@linda k…okay, calm down now…
A recent post on a global-warming website specifically aimed at youngsters implicitly blames man-made global warming for the Haiti earthquake.
In an article titled – with breathtaking insensitivity – ""What the Haiti Quake Means for the Climate Movement"" (because that’s the main concern here, right?) it says "as the planet heats up, disasters are becoming more frequent and severe" and that Haiti is just the latest example of this.
Although it hedges by stating that ""it is inherently difficult to map changes in the Earth’s climate to any specific event"", it leaves the young reader in no doubt as to the underlying cause, saying ""every time a natural disaster hits, I think about fossil fuels"" and that ""what we know is that burning fossil fuels is altering the climate, increasing the likelihood that disasters like this one will occur.""
It’s only a short article. Have a read and see what you think. Lowest of the low? Are there *any* depths to which they won’t stoop?
""What the Haiti Quake Means for the Climate Movement""
From "It’s Getting Hot In Here: Dispatches from the Youth Climate Movement" website.
http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/2010/01/14/what-the-haiti-quake-means-for-the-climate-movement/
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EDIT -
In case you’re wondering, the author of this article, Josh Lynch was a campaign manager for "Green for All" and helped organise the "Dream Reborn" conference described by its participants as ""transcendent" and "church-like."" ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_For_All )
He is also a co-founder of the Energy Action Coalition.
See: http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/author/joshlynch/
Liberals constantly accuse us Conservatives of ignoring the science on Global Warming. OK, two prominent showbiz liberals have now linked earthquakes and tsunamis to Global Warming. Those being Danny Glover and Eve Ensler.
So please explain to me the science of how GW causes them.
the 60s and 70s were all about positive energy and ushering in an age of enlightenment… now all the talk about 2012 and global warming, and solar flares and volcanic activity and earthquakes and hurricanes… so which is it?
Just wondering how much of the coast line could change? In the event of global warming how far would the water come inland? In the event of a tidal wave how far could a wave come inland? Seriously, I want to know. I know eventually over millions of years it could become an island chain, but how much could really happen in say the next 100 years?
I was just listening to Pat Robertson on You Tube. Terrorists do take advantage of political changes, 1993 (Clinton), 2001 (Bush), 2007 (New Congress?). Not a big leap to think of a terrorist attack in 2007. Kind of an anti-climax announcement.
But it did get me thinking, how many people actually prepare for a possible disaster by having a few days of food around, flash lights, medical supplies, that kind of thing. The normal Red Cross Be Prepared kind of thing.
All the "Oh my God the world is going to be destroyed by…" Nuclear war, global warming, terrorists, hurricanes, tornadoes, infestations of caterpillars, etc can leave this one alone.
I just want to know how many reasonably normal people have checked out ready.gov and have some emergency supplies around in case of a disaster.
Thanks. The ratio of real answers to silly answers tells me a lot too. Looks like if there was a major disaster any major urban center in the country things would end up a lot like they were in Louisiana. On the other hand, it kind of looks like people in rural or suburban areas might be better prepared. Kind of a common sense thing I would guess. some kind of ratio of storage space versus costs versus convince and availability, I would assume.
Thanks.
hurricanes have increased in intensity and numbers drasticaly. there has been more volcanic eruptians, earthquakes, more intense thunderstorms, and tsunamis. also, the climate is shifting. i believe global warming is a rising factor that is being ignored. something needs to be done before it is too late. governemtnis more worried about money then it is man kind. what are your views?
i understand that its nautral and will occur no matter what, but its the intensity and how we speed the proccess up that worries me. sea level is rising, this is another problem occuring due to the melting glaciers.
Hello, I’m writing a research and i need to know what is the most recent disaster that are caused by global warming.
so u must of hear already… it was 5.4 i think
im 13 and i was sleeping at 11:42 (yes i know lazy)
but it woke me up and theres supposed to be more earthquakes this week.. do you know anything about when and what the possible magnitude thingy is ?
and did global warming cause it , or was it just natural ?
&& i can SOO WAiT for the san andres fault to happen :[
no they started out saying it was 5.8 but then concluded 5.4
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and when are they coming ? :p
Does anyone even care? I mean with the fast paced life we live in…..Does anyone even realize what "we" are doing to Mother Earth? I wonder………well, the Ice (polar cap) is melting at an
abnormal rate than it should. The Oceans are rising, The Volcanos are acting up, Tsunami’s are wiping out not one but several "Countrys" at a time! and the Thousands of lives taken?
Tornadoes in California? Earthquakes at their deadliest! really hot summers and freezing winters! The sting on my skin from the sun indicates lesser protection from our Ozone…….Sound like nonsense? Global Warming! is the reason I feel. So now what should "we" do to stop the distruction before it’s to late?
It’s coming. I believe it is. All the bad hurricanes,flooding, global warming,ozone layer disappearing(well that’s actually getting better I hear), earhquakes, the tsumani, the bird flu, our natural resources vanishing. What do you think of all this? Are you scared? how will we prepare? How do we know for certain when it’s reallly coming? Facts? Opinions?
I mean a real superquake of 10 on the richter scale, or even larger? With global warming, and other environmental factors, will a quake like that ever happen?
I have heard there have been earthquakes non stop in the southern hemisphere, maybe a supervolcano or a super explosion is about to happen down there, remember the earthquakes in Chile, southeastern asia, and Peru, well, I guess those were the signs…this volcano Llaima in Chile just erupted today? Could that also happen in Alaska or Yellowstone? Could these volcanos be getting to ready to explode to balance global warming? Bring the world temperature back to normal?