About four years ago I began to contemplate the unintended consequences of global warming induced climate change.
Consequences caused by the damage being done to The Damaged Global Climate System.
Perhaps instead of unintended consequences what I am blogging about maybe should be called totally unexpected consequences.
Or maybe just the "oops factor."
Anyway, notice what was pointed out in April of 2010 in one of the early posts on the subject:
Yesterday we talked about tipping points that have already been crossed over so that the consequences can't be stopped, which will cause these earthquake and volcano hair-triggers to be squeezed on even more (Will This Float Your Boat - 4).
The previous post in this series is here.
Consequences caused by the damage being done to The Damaged Global Climate System.
Perhaps instead of unintended consequences what I am blogging about maybe should be called totally unexpected consequences.
Or maybe just the "oops factor."
Anyway, notice what was pointed out in April of 2010 in one of the early posts on the subject:
"In places like Iceland, for example, where you have the Eyjafjallajökull ice sheet, which wouldn't survive [global warming], and you've got lots of volcanoes under that, the unloading effect can trigger eruptions," McGuire said.(Global Warming & Volcanic Eruptions). Following that, I contemplated the potential for earthquake triggering caused by the changing of pressures on the Earth's crust as the ice sheets thin, and the sea level rises:
With the changing dynamics in the crust, faults could also be destabilized, which could bring a whole host of other problems.
"It's not just the volcanoes. Obviously if you load and unload active faults, then you're liable to trigger earthquakes," McGuire told LiveScience, noting that there is ample evidence for this association in past climate change events.
The gist of this hypothesis is that all offshore drilling engineering is based upon a reality that is passing away because a new reality is approaching.Image may be NSFW.(Is A New Age Of Pressure Upon Us? - 2). Now, as it turns out, other events that can help to trigger an earthquake:
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The formulas show how we can at once see a change coming as ocean levels change, as ice sheet thickness changes, and as the resultant torque (easing pressure on crust as ice melts; increasing pressure on seabed as ocean rises) works upon the thin crust of the earth.
The first effect of this new reality of pressures caused by melting ice sheets and ice caps and the resultant rise of ocean levels is already here, although in a degree we are not yet certain of.
It is obvious that p=pgh is at once impacted when "h" (e.g. ocean level) or p change, (since g is effectively constant).
The complication no engineers have calculated is the combined effect of both the torque and the pressures when both are concurrently changing.
Our results suggest that long-term and late-summer flexural uplift of the Coast Ranges reduce the effective normal stress resolved on the San Andreas Fault. This process brings the fault closer to failure, thereby providing a viable mechanism for observed seasonality in microseismicity at Parkfield and potentially affecting long-term seismicity rates for fault systems adjacent to the valley. We also infer that the observed contemporary uplift of the southern Sierra Nevada previously attributed to tectonic or mantle-derived forces is partly a consequence of human-caused groundwater depletion.(Uplift & Seismicity Driven by Groundwater Depletion in ... California). The depletion is exacerbated by global warming induced drought, and overuse of resources by Big Agriculture.
Yesterday we talked about tipping points that have already been crossed over so that the consequences can't be stopped, which will cause these earthquake and volcano hair-triggers to be squeezed on even more (Will This Float Your Boat - 4).
The previous post in this series is here.