AP Says Earthquakes More Deadly Because Of Global Warming
(AP) New research compiled by Australian scientist Dr. Tom Chalko shows that global seismic activity on Earth is now five times more energetic than it was just 20 years ago.
The research proves that destructive ability of earthquakes on Earth increases alarmingly fast and that this trend is set to continue, unless the problem of “global warming” is comprehensively and urgently addressed.
The analysis of more than 386,000 earthquakes between 1973 and 2007 recorded on the US Geological Survey database proved that the global annual energy of earthquakes on Earth began increasing very fast since 1990.
Dr. Chalko said that global seismic activity was increasing faster than any other global warming indicator on Earth and that this increase is extremely alarming.
“The most serious environmental danger we face on Earth may not be climate change, but rapidly and systematically increasing seismic, tectonic and volcanic activity,” said Dr. Chalko.
“Increase in the annual energy of earthquakes is the strongest symptom yet of planetary overheating.
“NASA measurements from space confirm that Earth as a whole absorbs at least 0.85 Megawatt per square kilometer more energy from the Sun than it is able to radiate back to space. This ‘thermal imbalance’ means that heat generated in the planetary interior cannot escape and that the planetary interior must overheat. Increase in seismic, tectonic and volcanic activities is an unavoidable consequence of the observed thermal imbalance of the planet,” said Dr. Chalko.
Dr. Chalko has urged other scientists to maximize international awareness of the rapid increase in seismic activity, pointing out that this increase is not theoretical but that it is an Observable Fact.
“Unless the problem of global warming (the problem of persistent thermal imbalance of Earth) is addressed urgently and comprehensively - the rapid increase in global seismic, volcanic and tectonic activity is certain. Consequences of inaction can only be catastrophic. There is no time for half-measures.”
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The study is based on time between 1973 and 2007. That alone states this fund and grant chaser is full of his own shit.
Did that asshole explain the sismec activity changes during the middle ages warming period?
What about the fact that global warming ceased 10 years ago, and that last winter brought us back to known measurements of a 100 years ago?
The damage to human progress that these kind of ’scientists’ are doing should be considered a crime against humanity. I would love to watch summary executions upon their convictions.
Manbearpig’s head on a pike says I.
But, maybe I am wrong and those twisty bulbs will stop plate tectonics.
June 18th, 2008 at 4:19 pmOh my God they are stupid!
June 18th, 2008 at 4:22 pmGlobal warming will soon replace mothers milk as the leading cause of everything.
June 18th, 2008 at 4:32 pmI got a speeding ticket 3 months ago……….. it had been several years since my last one….. Could it be…???? I am worried…???? Could it be because of Global Warming? (or more properly phrased via the new, sneaky lingo…. Climate Change?)
June 18th, 2008 at 4:36 pmi have noticed increased activity of farts in the neighbourhood of my backside,is this an effect of climate change?
June 18th, 2008 at 4:53 pmIt appears that I have finally come across another scientist that believes that tectonic forces are driven by incoming solar radiation rather than radioactive decay. What is it with these idiots???? Like everything else in nature, our planet is not in equilibrium with constant vital signs. And like weather instrumentation, seismographs are quite a bit more sophisticated today than they were in 1973. I just love “scientists” that compare watermelons and peas.
June 18th, 2008 at 5:09 pmOh, bullshit. First off, a false assumption - that seismic activity is constant. Secondly, a gaping hole in the hypothesis - if there was enough thermal energy to drive earthquakes, the Earth’s surface would have to be significantly higher than it is. You’d feel the ground warming up under our feet in order for enough energy to be passed deep underground and drive quakes - the quakes themselves would be the least of our troubles! Third, the mechanism proposed is bullshit, namely that an increase in surface temperature of less than a degree celcius (for the sake of argument) would be utterly negligible compared to the elevated temperature kilometers down where most earthquakes originate. And that’s just skimming the surface.
This pegs my BS meter, and is only interesting if you look at is as a behavioral phenomenon. Some scientists have figured out that if you hang “global warming” off of their research proposals then they’ll get more funding, or at least get to “do their publishing in the New York Times”. (A rather nasty thing to accuse a scientist of, btw.)
The second-rate scientists sense blood in the water, and are starting to make up funding gaps for their second-rate science with some trendy headlines.
Shitheads!
June 18th, 2008 at 5:11 pmI’m gonna have to start taking heavy drugs to relate to all this new science.
June 18th, 2008 at 5:31 pmI’m waiting for the Dem’s to somehow link terrorism to global warming. Doesn’t seem like too much of a stretch for them, right? They can take it a step further and say that since the military can’t fight global warming, we must cut their funding and give more to carbon offsets.
June 18th, 2008 at 5:34 pmI agree with all of these comments. Second rate scientists looking for the easy grant $$$ and the 15 seconds of fame.
I thought it funny however, that this scientist states a NASA study which indicates the solar energy created from the sun is greater than what the earth can radiate back,(which is clearly not a man-made phenomena but one of the sun’s energy) but then alarmingly claims “There is no time for half measures!” as though man can do anything about the sun’s energy. Next time he uses a study to back up his alarmism, he should at least try to find one that gives some credibility to his sensationalism.
A little sidebar: National Geographic last year had an excellent special on the solar flare activity occuring on the sun’s surface and how it was in a period of intense activity, which could explain the heating cycle we were currently in. Since the “global warming” has trumped everything, Nat Geo has not had that special on again.
June 18th, 2008 at 5:56 pmWith the court system leaning back towards the right, the liberals have found a new mechanism to affect social change. Global warming and climate change.
My profession has gone to the whores. I have always admitted to being a prostitute for research money, but I’ve always tried to maintain a better class of clients. I refuse to get in bed with these green turds.
June 18th, 2008 at 6:05 pmI’m beginning to view Environmentalist-type Scientists as being in the same category as Fur Seal Pups.
Think about it.
June 18th, 2008 at 6:22 pmHmmm - I’m curious. So how many scientists post on this website these days, anyhow?
/hand in air
June 18th, 2008 at 6:48 pmYou know how when your computer is on the fritz you need to “reboot” it, and that usually solves the problem? Well, now that we have this UNUSUALLY INTENSE SEISMIC ACTIVITY (based on 34 years of data out of the planet’s 4 billion years of history), why not a simple, cheap, fast “reboot” of the planet? We can all just synchronize our watches, and at an appointed second (allowing for time-zones), all of us physically able can JUMP at the same moment, and the force of us billions of people landing at the same time will surely cure Mother Earth of these hiccups, no?
Makes a lot more sense than anything this Aussie lunatic is peddling!!
June 18th, 2008 at 6:57 pmNow if I recall correctly from my basic high school earth science classes, the primary source of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is earth’s tectonic/geologic activity (earthquakes, seafloor spreading, volcanic eruptions etc.) - with the ‘aerobic respiration’ of the biosphere coming in a distant second. So would it not stand to reason that the overall increase in carbon dioxide in our atmosphere is actually caused by earth’s increased seismic activity… and not the other way around? Good grief the earth’s crustal plates are far more ‘insulating’ to the molten rock below then the low carbon dioxide content of our planet’s thin-wispy nitrogen [slash] oxygen atmosphere.
By the way, if the earth radiated all the energy absorbed from the sun back into space, would it not be awfully damn cold down here on the surface?
I know what to do. Let’s increase research funding for those alchemists who are trying to turn carbon dioxide into gold. Oh I forgot, Al Gore has already thought of something quite similar.
And I thought I was an educated man.
June 18th, 2008 at 8:31 pmI saw this article and posted about it on my site: here.
Aside from the horrible science, the guy they quoted is actually a crackpot scientist. He’s not associated with any universirty currently, and the “journal” he posted in is really just his own website.
The AP really should do a better job on getting their facts straight.
June 18th, 2008 at 9:56 pmNU Journal of Discovery is an unknown journal, with only a handful of publications, all of them by Chalko, who happens to be on the journal editorial board. NU (or Nature University) isn’t a real university.
Here are a few more things Chalko has been involved in:
Aliens! http://thiaoouba.com/faq.htm
Auras: http://thiaoouba.com/seeau.htm
Astral Travel? http://thiaoouba.com/astr.htm
He even sells shirts: http://bioresonant.com/dress.html?PHPSESSID=1a7fd4e1219326e73544904d8d1ac67d
Chalko is a crackpot.
June 18th, 2008 at 10:59 pmLooked at your links, your right, Chalko is a crackpot.
…and the AP posted that nut-job’s story on their wire.
June 19th, 2008 at 12:18 amThis doesn’t tell us much about nutball scientists that we didn’t know, but I afraid that after all this time, I still wasn’t prepared to see AP fail this abysmally to provide some adult supervision for its reporters. How could they possibly have allowed this drivel to go out?
This is no time for half-measures. Something simply has to be done about AP.
June 21st, 2008 at 5:32 am