Well, I shall hold myself up to public ridicule.
It's easy to sneer and jeer. For the sake of conversation, if nothing else, let's take a look at some of the work that has been done in the field. It extends from the
current time back for years.
The earthquake was no surprise.
THE DANNY GLOVER INTERVIEW
FIRST PART of interview called for U.S. and international aid and cooperation.
SECOND PART:
"And I hope we seize this particular moment because what has happened to
Haiti is a threat that could happen any where in the Caribbean to these island
nations, you know." */**
They are all in peril because of global warming. They are all in peril because
of climate change, and we need to (garble). ***
When we did what we did to the Climate Summit in Copenhagen****, this is
a response*****, this is what happens, you know that we have to act now.
FOR CONSIDERATION:
http://www.newscientist.com/ar...-climate-change-may-trigger-earthquakes-and-volcanoes.html?full=true
Climate change may trigger earthquakes and volcanoes
23 September 2009 by Richard Fisher
Magazine issue 2727. Subscribe and get 4 free issues.
FAR from being the benign figure of mythology, Mother Earth is short-tempered
and volatile. So sensitive in fact, that even slight changes in weather and climate
can rip the planet's crust apart, unleashing the furious might of volcanic eruptions,
earthquakes and landslides.
That's the conclusion of the researchers who got together last week in London at
the conference on Climate Forcing of Geological and Geomorphological Hazards.
It suggests climate change could tip the planet's delicate balance and unleash a
host of geological disasters....
NOTES*:
*http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/01/100114143321.htm
Haiti Earthquake Occurred in Complex, Active Seismic Region
ScienceDaily (Jan. 14, 2010) — The magnitude 7.0 earthquake that triggered
disastrous destruction and mounting death tolls in Haiti this week occurred in a
highly complex tangle of tectonic faults near the intersection of the Caribbean
and North American crustal plates, according to a quake expert at the Woods Hole.
Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) who has studied faults in the region and throughout
the world.
Jian Lin, a WHOI senior scientist in geology and geophysics, said that even though the
quake was "large but not huge," there were three factors that made it particularly devastating:
First, it was centered just 10 miles southwest of the capital city, Port au Prince; second, the
quake was shallow -- only about 10-15 kilometers below the land's surface; third, and more
importantly, many homes and buildings in the economically poor country were not built to
withstand such a force and collapsed or crumbled.
All of these circumstances made the Jan. 12 earthquake a "worst-case scenario," Lin said.
Preliminary estimates ofthe death toll ranged from thousands to hundreds of thousands.
"IT SHOULD BE A WAKE UP CALL FOR THE ENTIRE CARIBBEAN," SAID LIN.
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**http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/02/050205102502.htm
Major Caribbean Earthquakes And Tsunamis A Real Risk
A dozen major earthquakes of magnitude 7.0 or greater have occurred in the Caribbean
near Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands and the island of Hispaniola, shared by Haiti and
the Dominican Republic, in the past 500 years, and several have generated tsunamis. The
most recent major earthquake, a magnitude 8.1 in 1946, resulted in a tsunami that killed
a reported 1,600 people.
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***http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change/disappearing-world-global-warming-claims-
tropical-island-429764.html
Disappearing world: Global warming claims tropical island
For the first time, an inhabited island has disappeared beneath rising seas. Environment Editor Geoffrey Lean reports
Sunday, 24 December 2006
Rising seas, caused by global warming, have for the first time washed an inhabited island off the face of the Earth. The
obliteration of Lohachara island, in India's part of the Sundarbans where the Ganges and the Brahmaputra rivers empty
into the Bay of Bengal, marks the moment when one of the most apocalyptic predictions of environmentalists and
climate scientists has started coming true.
As the seas continue to swell, they will swallow whole island nations, from the Maldives to the Marshall Islands,
inundate vast areas of countries from Bangladesh to Egypt, and submerge parts of scores of coastal cities.
Eight years ago, as exclusively reported in The Independent on Sunday, the first uninhabited islands - in the Pacific
atoll nation of Kiribati - vanished beneath the waves. The people of low-lying islands in Vanuatu, also in the Pacific,
have been evacuated as a precaution, but the land still juts above the sea. The disappearance of Lohachara, once
home to 10,000 people, is unprecedented.
It has been officially recorded in a six-year study of the Sunderbans by researchers at Calcutta's Jadavpur University.
So remote is the island that the researchers first learned of its submergence, and that of an uninhabited neighboring
island, Suparibhanga, when they saw they had vanished from satellite pictures.
Two-thirds of nearby populated island Ghoramara has also been permanently inundated. Dr Sugata Hazra, director
of the university's School of Oceanographic Studies, says "it is only a matter of some years" before it is swallowed up
too. Dr Hazra says there are now a dozen "vanishing islands" in India's part of the delta. The area's 400 tigers are also
in danger.
Until now the Carteret Islands off Papua New Guinea were expected to be the first populated ones to disappear, in
about eight years' time, but Lohachara has beaten them to the dubious distinction.
Human cost of global warming: Rising seas will soon make 70,000 people homeless
Refugees from the vanished Lohachara island and the disappearing Ghoramara island have fled to Sagar, but this
island has already lost 7,500 acres of land to the sea. In all, a dozen islands, home to 70,000 people, are in danger
of being submerged by the rising seas......
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****
http://unfccc.int/2860.phpBriefing the press at the end of the two-week conference, Yvo de Boer said an accord has
been reached that has significant elements, but that is not legally binding.
He described the accord as “politically important,” demonstrating a willingness to move
forward.
It brings together a diversity of countries that have put in place a letter of intent with the
ingredients of an architecture for a response to climate change.
The key points of the accord include the objective to keep the maximum temperature rise
to below 2 degrees Celsius; the commitment to list developed country emission reduction
targets and mitigation action by developing countries for 2020; USD 30 billion short-term
funding for immediate action till 2012 and USD 100 billion annually by 2020 in long-term
financing, as well as mechanisms to support technology transfer and forestry.
The challenge now is to turn what is agreed into something that is legally binding in Mexico
one year from now.
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***** A response to global warming.