Arctic melting caused the earthquakes in New Zealand and Japan. California coast soon underwater. Greenland Ice Sheet next to melt. We can stop it by buying a Japanese car.
Connecting the dots – melting ice and earthquakes
Considering the two recent unusually large earthquakes: first in New Zealand and then in Japan, it would be helpful at this point to look at the story behind the story that has not been explored by our major media. It may not be apparent to everyone.
You should know that there is mounting evidence that melting polar ice can cause an increase in earthquake activities.
One recent study found on the National Geographic website (http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news) shows that earthquakes are “suppressed in the presence of ice and promoted during melting of the ice,” said study leader Andrea Hampel of the Ruhr University Bochum in Germany.
As ice sheets melt, they can release pent-up energy and trigger massive earthquakes, according to this new study. It also shows that this can happen even along faults that are normally quiet and are not prone to slip.
It is projected that by this summer, the North Pole will be ice free for the first time in 100,000 years. The Greenland Ice Sheet is next in line and is currently melting at a record rate.
If it goes, we will have the Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant on the California coast under water.
We should take these recent catastrophes as a word of warning and do everything we can to reduce our carbon footprint.
To replace our fleet of gas guzzlers with fuel-efficient vehicles to stave off further ice melt would be something that we could all move toward.
Urging our leaders to take a more cautious approach to dangerous technologies like nuclear and coal energies would also be helpful at this time of great upheaval.
Sheila Jenkins, Lincoln
Wot The F?
How is this drivel published?
probably sarc from the ‘Onion’…
HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!! Really? Like the wicked witch of the west, ……..we’re melting!!!! We’re melting!!!
Steve, can you mark the end of summer when we can all go back to the lincolnnewsmessenger and make fun of them? It would be a hoot! I’d do it now, but I’ve had too many. Maybe tomorrow, but it would be funny if we had a count down.
Lay the blame at the feet of rich, greedy whites in western countries, who demand a better way of life than living in a cave.
I really, really hope that this is Lincoln, California and not Lincoln, UK.
FAIL!
Steve, put this in your archive. Only 3 summers to go!
Maslowski has already deleted the original pdf
People like these used to babble standing at a street corner. Now they are published in the paper. That goes for many, many others. *Sigh*
“Arctic melting caused the earthquakes in New Zealand and Japan”
lol no.