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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?

Answer:

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 dothegreenthing

Question: What chemical compounds or other material goes into the atmosphere potentially leading to a cooling of climate?
What chemical compounds or other material goes into the atmosphere potentially leading to a cooling of climate?

a. Sulfate aerosols and volcanic ash
b. CO2
c. H2O vapor
d. Methane
e. Ammonia
f. Pumice
g. Nitrous oxide
h. None of the above

Answer:

Answer by Punk Rock and Minerals
a. Sulfate aerosols and volcanic ash

by chinadialogue.net

Question: What chemical compounds or other material goes into the atmosphere and how do these materials affect climate?
This question is concerning volcanoes and the effect their eruptions have on the climate.

Answer:

Answer by MIKE YANTREE
Much more than man does. The climate might be affected by volcanoes but will never be affected by man. The politics behind this is more important than the science behind it. Look for the agendas.

Question: What would you type into Google to find a Climate Change website?
I am helping design a website for Climate Change with resources, interactive world and campaign material. We are doing some secondary research into what people would type in to find information of the sort listed above into Google. Provide any ideas, but please give me your age as well, just for research purposes, so I could put the suggestions into categories.

Thanks so much.

Answer:

Answer by Susan
You can type into google search engine “climate change website” and there should be a some good websites there. Or I found one or two that look good and might help:
www.climatechange.eu.com
or a more adult choice
www.Chevron.com
I hope this helped and good luck with your website.
p.s. I’m 13

Truck driver escapes injury after plowing into utility poles on Route 532 in Newtown Township (UPDATED)
NEWTOWN TOWNSHIP – The driver of a truck, owned by Community Recycling of Fairless Hills, escaped injury in the early hours of Sunday morning when his vehicle left the roadway and snapped off two telephone poles on Washington Crossing Road near Eldridge Road around 1:40 a.m.
Read more on The Advance

Trash to treasure
Mt. Pleasant City Carton Recycling donated the Mt. Pleasant Music Boosters with a check for $ 2,503. The funds were raised from residential recyclables dropped off at the City Carton site throughout the months of November and December in what facility manager Kevin Bumgarner hopes will become an annual recycling drive. During the drive, City Carton saw an overall 11 percent increase at the drop …
Read more on Mt. Pleasant News

Norman to vote on sanitation increase
Norman residents will vote on a sanitation rate increase Tuesday. The proposed rate increase on trash and recycling pick-up would be $ 2.50 per month and is because of increased costs within the department.
Read more on The Oklahoma Daily

Question: How can anyone put issues like climate change into the hands of the government and not the free market?
The government caters to special interests. They do not care about us.

You would be stupid to think politicians genuinely care about climate change. It is just another excuse to tax.

Answer:

Answer by icarus62
Well, what if there’s no profit to be made out of mitigating climate change? How can the ‘free market’ have any positive influence in that case? The trouble is, fossil fuels are so rich in energy (coal has 4 times as much energy as TNT, I read somewhere) that it’s very hard for any other source of energy to be competitive.

by Daysleeper724

Question: What happens when air pollution goes into the lungs?
What happens when Air pollution is inside the lungs? do the lungs shrivel up or get dried or what?

Answer:

Answer by jean ann j
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/lung

Question by WeatherRusty: How Can Climate Decades into the Future be Predicted When Weather Forecasts Beyond 3 Days Are Unreliable?
Weather forecasting is an initial conditions problem. Climate forecasting is a boundary condition problem.

Initial condition that define the current state of the atmosphere are updated with every iteration of a forecast model. Beyond the first set, the initial conditions for each successive iteration are based on the output of the model and could be in error. These errors accumulate with each future iteration and the weather forecast skill deteriorates with time.

Measured initial conditions are therefore useless to climate prediction models, which are weather forecast models adapted for assessing climate change.

Rather than initial conditions, boundary conditions are described:

“Climate forecasts are produced in a different fashion, as here the problem is fundamentally a boundary value one. The circulation of atmosphere and ocean in such a climate model is not dependent on the initial state of the model but rather on the boundary conditions like the input of solar energy and the chemical composition of the Earth’s atmosphere (e.g. greenhouse gases). You cannot predict the weather for individual days with a climate forecast (for example, the question of the temperature in Hamburg on the 23.12.2005 is meaningless), but you can say something about the average conditions for an area (e.g. the average January temperature between 2010 and 2020), as well as the probability and magnitudes of deviations from this average.”

In other words, the little unknowable details are less valuable in a predictive sense than are large scale parameters confined to within a range of likely variability when assessing climate change.

Any comment?

http://www.mpimet.mpg.de/en/presse/faqs/wie-kann-man-klimaveraenderungen-vorhersagen.html

pegminer,

This question often comes up, so I thought I would ask it and provide my own insight in the process. I answered my own question and welcomed others to answer as well.

Best answer:

Answer by bustersmycat
There is some validity to that assertion. However, it does downplay the necessary role in climate models of internal processes in controlling the exchange from in-system to out-system. that is, the balance of system input and output (heat gain and loss) is affected by internal processes, such as internal heat transfer (ocean and water circulation) and atmosphere and ocean composition, among other factors.

How these factors affect the input-output must be presumed. They, like the weather, are difficult to predict and so the models tend to fudge factor them in (a generic relationship is predicated based on recent climate behavior and this generic relationship is used for future extrapolations).

There is still an awful lot of slop in the calculations.

One thing that seems to get lost in all of the climate model discussion, or rather that gets downplayed, is that modellers tend to incorporate the same sort of fudge factors (they all read the same studies and use those studies in developing their model conditions), so of course they tend to arrive at the same results. That is, when many different models arrive at similar results, it is often presented as proof of model validity, when in fact all it is proving (in my view) is that the models are all more or less based on the same presumptions.

What do you think? Answer below!