Friday, March 11, 2011
Bingo! Climate Change Caused Japan Earthquake!
Well, I promised I'd "update with progressive reports that climate change caused it ..." So, right on cue: "Climate Change Fanatics Blame Japan Earthquakes, Tsunamis on Global Warming" (via Memeorandum).
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Plate Tectonics. Look it up or ask any first year geology student. AGW has absolutely nothing to do with it.
My wife is good friends with a woman in Japan so they have been emailing each other as to the conditions there. Apparently even the average person in Japan knows about Plate Tectonics because one of the sentences, which I Copy/Pasted, in her email read, "Hopefully though, this shift in the tectonic plates has relieved the pressure buildup and there won't be anymore quakes for some good long time to come. I'll just try to think my best and most optimistic thoughts as I proceed with my moving plans."
Has the Science curriculum in colleges and universities degraded so badly that common knowledge like this is not taught? I would think that anyone who lives near a fault would have some understanding as to how the Earth's plates move and the ramifications of these movements.
Back when I took Geology there was the estimation that the plates moved at a "whopping" one quarter inch a year and not all in the same direction. This is why we can roughly fit the land masses together. As I stated before look it up.
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