Dawn 2013 #Tinfoil2013: Yeah, There Were Geological Issues Leading Up To 2012...

...and there still are. Global climate Change has been wreaking geological havoc on the surface of the Earth, and it's going to take a long time for things to get better, even now that "civilization" is barely spewing any carbon or other greenhouse gasses into the atmosphere. How, you ask, does Global Climate Change impact the geology of Earth's surface? Water weight, my friend. That old scourge of middle-aged waist-lines around the world. It goes like this note I wrote to a friend back in early 2011:

I came up with a theory linking global climate change to increased seismic & volcanic activity in 2005. I call it the Ping-Pong Theory. (I should rename it the Superball Theory.)

Pinch the top & bottom of a rubber ball the size of a ping-pong ball. The sides bulge out.

Release the pinch and the sides pull back in and the top and bottom bulge back out.

Well, think of the quintillions of tons of ice that has been sitting on land masses in the polar regions as pinching fingers on the top and bottom of the Earth. Now the fingers are melting and the resulting fluid is shifting toward the equator.

Not only is all that weight shifting its burden around on Earth's surface, but it's screwing with the rate of planetary rotation at the same time. Since the Earth's solid outer crust is decoupled from its semi-solid nickel-iron core by a viscous fluid called molten magma, that is some serious shit.

I read a couple of days ago that Yellowstone rose by amounts as much as ten inches. Yellowstone is the world's largest super-volcano. Its caldera is 75 miles across. It's estimated that an eruption at Yellowstone would cover the Western 2/3's of the US up to six feet deep in volcanic ash.

Corporatism is bad for everyone's health.



Here's some video of Mount Kirishima in Japan blowing its top in January, 2011:




If you think I'm off my rocker, check out these Wikipedia articles on Isostasy and Post-glacial Isostatic Rebound. They'll set your hair on-end in this context.

This article and Video series on the Yellowstone Super-Volcano is definitely informative of potential events to come: http://geology.com/usgs/yellowstone-volcano/


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I think people will need more than tinfoil to work around these issues, but they weren't what nailed us in 2012.

Brad Wonder out.