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Stay Safe
Parts of the U.S. experience severe winter storms. Europe is not spared either.
Today’s weather warning map for Germany is unprecedented. This one was issued an hour ago by the German National Weather Service (DWD).
Orange colored are counties warned of severe storm conditions. Dark red colored are counties where very severe storms are expected.
The forecast predicts up to 100 mph squalls and up to 2.8 inch of rain. For my local city of Hamburg tonight’s high-tide may come in some 12 feet above average.
Stay safe, wherever you are …
Update: Getting worse: Warning map as of 1:30pm local time (7:30am blogtime)
When titanic glaciers melt or slide from land to sea, the earth flexes from the weight now dispersed. Earthquakes, tsunamis and lava flows result. This has happened many times. This is decades old information but is not mentioned in Inconvenient Truth nor stressed by Amsterdam based Greenpeace, California based Sierra Club, anyone anywhere, including those who archive the 2 articles below.
We are not in the same boat as the big boys, who want global warming and deliberately encourage it. They point out we’ll now have a Northwest Passage, the unicorn of shipping, and buy property in Colorado. They also sold the worldwide port operations of the Penninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company to Dubai. City boys stick the yokels.
Don’t be confused by the motives of relatively small businessmen., such as Amana, U.S. 2nd largest air conditioner company who wrote to Bush administration in 2001 that 30% more efficient central a.c. unit regulations put in place by Clinton were no problem. WTO level is different. Remember that Standard Oil sold gas and additives to Germany through intermediaries during WW2.
That some small earthquakes nowadays were leftovers from glacier weight accumulated over millenia then dispersed 10,000 years ago is standard information. I believe I remember it from Earth Science in 8th grade in Buffalo (1966-7). But with all my internet research on West Antarctica’s Pine Island Glacier etc. sliding, I never thought of weight removal implications, nor did I see any mention of such until the Ottawa Citizen 7/3/06 piece
Climate Change Could Cause Earthquakes and Volcanic Eruptions, Scientists Say
(‘Could” as in “Gravity could cause unsupported things to fall.)
We act as hypnotized.
Why would people arguing for Kyoto etc. not bring up that earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and tsunamis result when ice slides from land to sea, and that they last a long time?
Combine that with L.A. Times Greenland’s Ice Sheet Is Slip-Sliding Away Robert Lee Holtz 6/25/06.
Starts off “Gripping a bottle of Jack Daniels between his knees … ” and includes information of Greenland possibly being 3 islands under the 2 miles thick ice, so the center area is 1000′ below sea level (numeral from other source).There is no discussion of the sea water thus running under and up into the glaciers, but there is a lot about the drill-like holes, produced in weeks below the unblemished surface, allowing meltwater down to the bedrock and so to the waiting sea. Note the increased seismic activity at the end and ponder the implications ignored in the article itself as it warns of decades of melting instead of hours of sliding.
Reduced ice weight produces earthquakes.
Earthquakes move ice.
Repeat.
Many, many choruses.
Note that our leaders, including environmentalists, journalists and celebrities, have been ignoring these inevitabilities in their communications with us, including the otherwise valuable Weather in 2100 piece in #30.
Note that in the 6th century Justinian’s great historian, Procopius, wrote of yellow dust in the sky that gendered famines, plagues and decisive wars. Lesser European and Chinese, Japanese and Mayan sources concur. The post Arthurian Wasteland is a hint of this, but otherwise we’ve forgotten that climate changes have serious consequences. (Keys, Catastrophe, Random House, o.p. but went to at least 4 printings, available digitally via Amazon for $9.95, and searchable free for key words like Procopius, plague, slavery and famine to find a couple of pages at a time.).
Note that cavalry men, filled with love for men & horses, ordered cavalry charges against well emplaced machine guns repeatedly1914-1918, and in 1926 Brit. Field marshall Haig wrote “aeroplanes and tanks are only accessories to the man and the horse, and I feel sure that as time goes on you will find just as much use for the horse – the well-bred horse – as you have ever done in the past.” (Ellis, Social History of the Machine Gun, Johns Hopkins U. Press, in print and searchable on Amazon).
All visible are in denial, or pretend to be so in likeness to the rest of us.
Posted by: plushtown | Jan 20 2007 13:21 utc | 49
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