http://13point5.blogspot.com/2011/03/japan-in-subduction-zone.html
The Union of Concerned Scientists acknowledges there is a 90 percent probability that human activities are the reason for temperature increases in the last 50 years.
In the last year, the people of the United States alone have suffered through 12 weather and climate disasters costing more than $1 billion each to resolve, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
Globally, the impact and cost has been much greater. Ignoring the imminent crises that result from rapid global climate change is a mistake that many have already paid the price for: Hurricane Katrina, the earthquake that devastated Japan earlier this year, the tornadoes across the South — the list goes on.
The earthquake epicenter was 32km underground. Finally we know where the missing heat is!
The earthquake may have had a mechanism similar to that of another large earthquake in the year 869 with an estimated surface wave magnitude (Ms) of 8.6, which also created a large tsunami. Other major earthquakes with tsunamis struck the Sanriku Coast region in 1896 and in 1933.
h/t to Marc Morano
I remember back in the Reagan era (yes I am that old), that the The Union of Concerned Scientists issued press release after press release, stating that missile defence systems were scientifically impossible. “It would be like trying to hit a bullet with a bullet” I fondly remember. The first time anti-missile defence systems came on my radar was during deployment of the Patriot Anti-Missile Missile System… (and not all that long afterwards, relatively speaking, given the complexity of the technology.)
I suppose the thing about the Union of Concerned Scientists is that they adopt an idealogical position first, then come up with some scientific sounding words to try to make their convictions sound plausible.
Those fossil fuel driven rickshaws were to blame back in 869.
At least Western Front are acknowledging the possibility that climate is changing naturally; pity they’re incapable of rational thought regarding earthquakes.
So we have ‘special’ CO2 which causes yet more CO2 to be released into the atmosphere: except that the newly released CO2 is not ‘special’, and therefore does not itself cause more CO2 to be released. Um…
Now we have ‘special’ heat which has the ability to ‘tunnel’ through bedrock (exactly the same concept used in semi-conductor electronics one would presume), but also has a ‘special #2′ ‘flag’ (this is the information age, after all), which makes it specifically target (too many insecticide adverts?) certain areas, i.e. fault lines, underground.
Oh, and lets not forget ‘special #0′, the ability for it to evade physical measurement.
Seriously, one has to wonder if there is not something neurological at work here. This is not normal stupidity: this is either proper insanity, or some kind of mental state where reality is itself rejected for some reason.
“Reality is the Disease, Hippie-ism is the cure.” Or something like that.
Of course, a real scientist would have said “90 percent Chance” or a “0.9 Probability“.
What a bunch of fake, phony, fraud liars that crew at UCS is.