Chile's massive 2010 earthquake caused Antarctica glaciers to calve and 'icequakes'

Wednesday, August 13th 2014 - 01:15 UTC

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A massive earthquake that struck Chile in 2010 caused glaciers thousands of miles away in Antarctica to calve, a study published Sunday in the journal Nature Geoscience found. Seismic surface waves radiating away from the earthquake’s epicenter traveled some 4,700 kilometers before passing through Antarctica’s ice sheets and causing small tremors, or “icequakes.” Read full article

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ChrisR
Oh dear, so the “global warming”, sorry, “climate change” did NOT cause all the Antarctic ice problems after all. It was the massive Chilean ‘quakes in 2010 that caused the damage.

Couple that with the known “warm currents” coming upwards from the depths of the shallow sea to the ice, further exacerbated the 'problem' of raising the sea levels world-wide by 200 meters, oh, sorry, TEN MILLIMETRES, then what can we conclude?

1) The Earth has ALWAYS HAD CLIMATE CHANGE! This is well known to science and is proven by actual FACTS.

2) There are THREE THOUSANDS SCIENTISTS with a consensus that this is going to happen. Consensus is opinion and lacks scientific proof. NASA is on the bandwagon, not to prove anything but to suck up to the US government and anybody else that will give them money for what they really believe in: SPACE.

There are millions of well qualified actual scientists on this planet. Where are they in all this hysteria? Looking at the laughingly called evidence and deciding whether there is any TRUTH in these claims before they produce their work, BASED ON SCIENCE.

3) The biggest threat to mankind comes from nature itself. The AIDs disaster has killed more than 20 million and is still killing people. Now we have Ebola, another disaster out of Africa. If we are really lucky perhaps 2 or 3 Bn from the 6 Bn may live? Perhaps much less.

The WHO requires the dead to be BURNT, not buried. The latest Ebola strain is a tough little bugger it seems and needs burning to ensure clean ground. Once it’s off and running in a community they are in for a nightmare experience: anybody been on a plane lately?

So two questions:

Can YOU burn two people by yourself, because that is what it may come to?

And what about global warming when 4 Bn people are burnt? If the fires are not hot enough in temperature they allow all sorts of particulates and nasty chemical compounds to be sent aloft, only to come down again.

Have a think about that.
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The Chilean perspective
1 ChrisR.
The biggest threat to mankind comes from us.
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ChrisR
@ 2 The Chilean perspective
“The biggest threat to mankind comes from us.”

Yes, and are we not part of 'nature', I know I am?

I sometimes which I could exchange body parts like replacing the brakes on a car but alas no.

Ebola and the way it can be carried around the planet is a far greater risk to those living on the planet than ever the climate change crap is. It will kill you now.

As an engineer and scientist I keep asking 'please show me the scientific evidence: the numbers and where they come from for global warming / climate change / whatever next they name it when it doesn't match the reality anymore'. That's all.

Trouble is, they can't do it.
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