The Iceland Volcano is Penance for Man's Sins?
CNN put up this opinion piece: "Is the Earth striking back?"As they flow off the land, we are warned, seas rise. Yet something else is lately worrying geologists: the likelihood that the Earth's crust, relieved of so much formidable weight of ice borne for many thousands of years, has begun to stretch and rebound.
As it does, a volcano awakens in Iceland (with another, larger and adjacent to still-erupting Eyjafjallajokull, threatening to detonate next). The Earth shudders in Haiti. Then Chile. Then western China. Mexicali-Calexico. The Solomon Islands. Spain. New Guinea. And those are just the big ones, 6+ on the Richter scale, and just in 2010. And it's only April.
Now we can guess at the quality of the science in "The World Without Us" -- this fellow wrote that, too. If he thinks that the "stretch and rebound" process of the last twenty thousand years or so JUST started, he is mistaken. Greenland, for example, is rising out of the ocean at the rate of about a quarter inch a year. And even this fellow admits that Iceland is getting about an inch wider every year. The rift has been spreading for millions of years -- we call it the Atlantic Ocean.
To CNN's credit, they did post a response: "Are Earthquakes Getting Worse? No!"
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As it does, a volcano awakens in Iceland (with another, larger and adjacent to still-erupting Eyjafjallajokull, threatening to detonate next). The Earth shudders in Haiti. Then Chile. Then western China. Mexicali-Calexico. The Solomon Islands. Spain. New Guinea. And those are just the big ones, 6+ on the Richter scale, and just in 2010. And it's only April.
Now we can guess at the quality of the science in "The World Without Us" -- this fellow wrote that, too. If he thinks that the "stretch and rebound" process of the last twenty thousand years or so JUST started, he is mistaken. Greenland, for example, is rising out of the ocean at the rate of about a quarter inch a year. And even this fellow admits that Iceland is getting about an inch wider every year. The rift has been spreading for millions of years -- we call it the Atlantic Ocean.
To CNN's credit, they did post a response: "Are Earthquakes Getting Worse? No!"
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