Earthquakes caused by Global Warming?

Earthquakes are caused by shifts in the Earth's tectonic plates, not global warming.

And your question shows your lack of understanding between CLIMATE and WEATHER. CLIMATE will effect weather, but weather is not a factor in climate. The snowfall is a result of CLIMATE, and one can prove that the change in the climate can make the snowfall heavier and/or lighter. I live in WI and we normally have feet of snow right now, with the heaviest still left to come. Right now, I can see grass in our yard, and no snowfall predicted anytime soon. And you may want to talk to the people in Dallas that have had to drive through more snow than they have seen in a lifetime there. Snow in Mexico. . . Snow in many places that normally doesn't see any snow. . . That is CLIMATE CHANGE; not just weather.

And the plates shifting have to do with quakes. Though climate doesn't have a direct effect on that happening (that is just plates shifting; has nothing to do with the climate), one could argue that some of the quakes (where the plates are pushed down as opposed to just into each other - like the ones that happen in the ocean) can have higher intensity due to the greater pressure due to the water rising in the oceans due to the melting of the polar ice caps. Guess what is causing that??

But what I find so funny about all of this is the fact that so many want to argue this so intensely. Fact is that humans on this earth have harmed the environment over the years. So what is the problem with lowering emissions "just in case" it is a fact and we are destroying this planet. Because if we just go on as if nothing is happening, and we are truly the cause, by the time there is proof positive without a shadow of a doubt, it will be too late to do a damn thing.

We have insurance "just in case"; why not do something about emissions "just in case" as well? I'm not asking you to believe a damn thing - you can keep your views. But what is the harm?? What would it hurt to do something to lessen emissions? But isn't it like Americans to focus on the wrong part of the issue. Just like screaming about teaching kids about sex makes them go out and have it, instead of seeing that if armed with the proper knowledge, they will have the ability to decide the correct way if they should do it or not and take the precautions to prevent disease transmission and/or pregnancy. Or blaming the guns for the deaths of people, when it is the people pulling the trigger that is causing the killings. Sometimes we Americans are so stupid!

It seems the Man Made Global Warming club are desperate to find anything to reinforce there ideas after the revelations of fraud recently. Earth quakes are caused by tectonic plates shifting which might be influenced by pressure from the sea rising but that does not prove that man made global warming is the original cause.

Al Gore,who invented the Internet and Global Warming, is the greatest inventor of all time..move over Einstein

actually, i've been wondering about this. i remember there was a huge iceberg that just broke away in antarctica last week, it was 48 miles long x 24 miles wide, worth 1/5 of the world's annual total water consumption, meaning a LOT. i was wondering if that had caused all these earthquakes so i did a search and found this article: http://www.livescience.com/environment/070830_gw_q...

read article about the icebergs http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100226/ap_on_sc/as_au...

i'm thinking: the iceberg falls > increases water in the ocean > puts pressure on the plates in the earth > causes earthquakes

My first reaction to this concept (that is not particularly new) replaced into that it replaced into rubbish! strategies you, i replaced into on R&S on the time and it got here from a 'creationist' argument in help of a 'youthful earth!' Lol. on mirrored photograph nevertheless, there could be something in it. My non-professional address it particularly is as follows: in reality, the earth's crust floats on the mantle in a state of equilibrium If a layer of ice builds up on component of it, that component of the crust could be pushed down till equilibrium replaced into reached. If the ice then melts, the crust could upward thrust back till equilibrium replaced into attained. What i don't be responsive to is how rapidly this could happen. If it takes tens of 1000's of years, ice sheets could form and burn up too rapidly for the crust to react. it does not be considerable. If it replaced into (say) some hundred years, or much less, it could have an result. on the different hand, the mass of ice could replace basically progressively as you moved faraway from the equator and in direction of the poles, so there could probable no longer be plenty distinction in ice mass the two component of a ability fault line to offer a shearing result. subsequently, and the plasticity of the earth's crust on a international scale, i'm sceptical of earthquakes from this source. i do no longer particularly be responsive to nevertheless, as I mentioned, i'm no longer an expert in this section. i think of this question promises jim z with an possibility to contribute of earnings to the two factors.

Barrack Obama as President of the United States of America........blame Global Warming.

Global warming is a HOAX! Stop the ignorance people!

yes when the iceage happened it was because of SUVs...thats sarcasm btw...and i suppose we should also ignore the fact that several "scientists" who presented proof backing up "global warming" later admitted that they made up results right?

the earth goes through cycles...incase you cant look at a year and figure out summer, fall, winter, and spring let me pont that out for you too.

this is a cycle, it has nothing to do with chopping down the rain forest or my smoking a cigarrette or my neighbors SUV.

You got it. The whole thing is caused by global warming. Apparently you haven't been paying attention.