Question: Should we increase research into new areas of climate science?
It appears that recent earthquakes and Iceland’s volcano are prompting researchers to say it may be prudent to look further into a climate/geological activity connection.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/apr/19/climate-change-geological-hazards

Should this research be supported and if so should it be supported with extra funding or a shift of funding from current existing climate research grants?

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Answer by jim z
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Richard Betts, a climate modeller at the Met Office Hadley Centre in Exeter, said: “This is a new area of academic research with potentially interesting implications. It was previously assumed there was no link at all between climate change and these events, but it is possible to speculate that climate change might make some more likely. If we do get large amounts of climate change in the long term then we might see some impacts.”
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Notice Betts is a climate modeler. He shouldn’t pretend to provide expert opinion on things he obviously knows nothing about. We might have a sudden increase in rabid unicorns too. Should we investigate that as well.

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“He said there was no evidence that current levels of global warming were influencing events such as last week’s earthquake in China that killed hundreds of people and the volcanic eruption in Iceland that grounded flights across Europe.
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That is correct. There is no evidence. There is more evidence of the unicorns.

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Experts say global warming could affect geological hazards such as earthquakes because of the way it can move large amounts of mass around on the Earth’s surface. Melting glaciers and rising sea levels shift the distribution of huge amounts of water, which release and increase pressures through the ground.
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So what. It isn’t like glaciers have never melted before. I am waiting for an alarmists to provide any example of an earthquake greater than 4.0 magnitude caused by isostatic rebound. They won’t come up with it either. I have yet to hear from a reputable geologist that would dare put up with this nonsense but when you drag money through a university such as Berkeley, you never know what might take the hook.

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These pressure changes could make ruptures and seismic shifts more likely. Research from Germany suggests that the Earth’s crust can sometimes be so close to failure that tiny changes in surface pressure brought on my heavy rain can trigger quakes. Tropical storms, snowfall and shifting tides have all been linked to shifts in seismic activity.
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Are you sure this isn’t from the National Enquiror. Heavy rains can cause earthquakes. Show me where. Tropical storms and snowfall. These people are a joke. I half suspect the article is from April 1. These people must believe in fairy dust and unicorns.

I won’t go on. They say there is no evidence and of course there is no evidence. I think the money would be better spent vacinating the unicorns.

Note: I have no problem with funds going to study isostatic rebound but it shouldn’t be funded under the false shadow of AGW. Earthquakes in general are far more important to study than minor settling (and that is what isostatic rebound is) from melting ice.

by manos_simonides

Question: How does climate change affect poverty?
I have to do a project on this for school. I have to create awarness of the way climate change affects poverty. I have searched this but i haven’t come up with sufficient results. There isn’t many websites with this kind of information.
Thank in advance!

Answer:

Answer by The original housekeeper
the hotter it is the more money you have. the colder it is the less money you have.

Question: How does climate change affect poverty?
I have to do a project on this for school. I have to create awarness of the way climate change affects poverty. I have searched this but i haven’t come up with sufficient results. There isn’t many websites with this kind of information.
Thank in advance!

Answer:

Answer by The original housekeeper
the hotter it is the more money you have. the colder it is the less money you have.

by swanksalot

Question: How does air pollution cause acid rain?
If you could also tell me what effect air pollution has on buildings nd monuments that would be really great…im doing this chart for my hw nd i need all the help i can get! thnx soo much!!

Answer:

Answer by christino
the polluted air mix with the clouds and when to clouds condensate is goes away as water and then you have acid rain, it can deteriorate the paint of cars

by Oxfam International

Question: I Would like to move to a warmer climate without the harsh snowy winters.?
I Would like to move to a warmer climate without the harsh snowy winters.?
Is there any place in America that is warm most of the year with winters that do not go below 30 degrees, have no hurricanes, earthquakes or tornados? Currently I live close to Philadelphia which offers various festivals, lots of museums and night life but the winters can be frigid with lots of snow. Any suggestions?

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Answer by missfreestyle
I really enjoy Florida but im not so sure on how the hurrianes and earthquakes and tornadoes are down there. I know how you feel with the cold and frigged winter because i lived in Washington D.C.. but i would recommend Flordia.

by manos_simonides

Question: Does the climate affect industrial development?
I mean, take Africans. No reason to suppose they are any less intelligent than white people but living in a parched climate is hardly conducive to industrial development and innovation. Hardly surprising the industrial revolution started in Britain and not in Botswana! The weather is cooler and you don’t have to saunter around all day swaggering and trying to stay (and look?) cool.

Answer:

Answer by Hillel
yes, if you look backwards,
and take Egypt for example, the population was limited to stay near the nile, and their work was limited to what this area of the nile could offer them.
the rest was a deserted desert.

some places will have certain resources that other places dont have. many resources are a direct result of climate in the area they are present.
so if that same industry is leaning on certain resources, you could say that industrial development is affected by climate.

it affected by many more factors, say for example your country is rich with a certain resource, but the world’s market has no demand at all for this resource, then you wont build industry around it and based on it, you will only lose money.
on the other hand, make that resource oil for example, you will have a lot of industry around it.

resources are also in need according to the time in history or future, before we knew how to use oil for our needs, places with oil would be poor, and as we finally learnd how to use it, these places are very rich and developed.

so to sum it up,
YES, i think climate is ONE factor that affects industrial development, but its nothing more than another factor amongs many

by dothegreenthing

Question: Explain the climate, animals and arrangment of the continents during each epoch of the Cenozoic Era?
Explain the climate, animals and arrangement of the continents during each epoch of the Cenozoic Era. Include dates and major occurrences during each if possible.

Answer:

Answer by cliffinohio
That’s a very difficult question. Good luck.

by Oxfam International

Question: Explain the climate, animals and arrangment of the continents during each epoch of the Cenozoic Era?
Explain the climate, animals and arrangement of the continents during each epoch of the Cenozoic Era. Include dates and major occurrences during each if possible.

Answer:

Answer by cliffinohio
That’s a very difficult question. Good luck.

Question: What is the volatile organic air pollution fee regulation is Southern California?
Is there are anybody knows the volatile organic air pollution fee regulation is Southern California?
What is the regulation about?
Or where can I find some related material?
thanks!

Answer:

Answer by crusinthru
thats a new one on me. Did you get fined for farting or something? Try a google search or ask jeeves and take some kind of ant-acid before you pass one of those regulators next time.

Question: Why did climate change happen during other time periods?
Because climate change happen one way in the past, does that mean it must happen the same way again?

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Answer by John Terry
“Why” is not fully understood. We do know that CO2 levels were lower during many of those periods than they are today. That does mean that whatever caused those comparable periods COULD have caused the early and late 20th century warming periods.

Climate change happened in the past without an increase in CO2 and for reasons not fully understood – apparently we agree on that point. Does it mean that the 20th century warming necessarily WASN’T caused by CO2?

No.

It DOES mean that we cannot simply INFER that it was caused by CO2.

And that inference is the entire case for man-made global warming.

…..that inference plus long-range predictions made by models that haven’t accurately predicted shorter-term temperature shifts – which means it’s dishonest or ignorant to insist that the models accurately reflect – and thus can rule out – all natural climate variables.

It’s simply not accurate to conclude that “natural forcings cannot explain the late 20th century warming” – it’s accurate to conclude that “our understanding of how natural forcings is limited and we cannot prove a natural cause or causes for the late 20th century warming – but we cannot prove what caused prior, comparable warming or cooling periods either.”