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PRICES RISING FASTER THAN SEAS
Further to this post on ocean-threatened properties somehow rising in value despite promised rising sea levels:
A beachfront block in the South-West will set a state record for a single residential site if it sells for more than $10 million when tenders close this month.
In other water-themed news, Jeremiah Magan, managing editor of California’s Fullerton College Hornet, believes seafloor earthquakes are a sign of global warming:
Despite the fact that Fullerton set record high temperatures for the month of March, people still have a hard time believing that global warming is real. The weather patterns are rapidly changing and becoming more extreme all over.
The tsunami in the South Pacific, Hurricane Katrina and the unseasonable heat in late winter and early spring are all signs that the weather is just going to continue changing.
This was published last month, so presumably refers to the massively deadly 2004 Boxing Day tsunami. More global warming happened yesterday, Jeremiah! Consider your faith validated.
(Via Murph)
Weather induced earthquakes.
Reminds me of that low-pressure system that moved into Washington State just before Mount St. Helens blew in the 1980s. And let’s not forget the low dew-point day we had when the Challenger exploded.
I’m going home right now and build a bunker before a global warming meteorite lands on my roof.Well those ancient Romans used lots of gas guzzling Sport Utility Chariots, and look what happened to Pompeii. Case closed. goebbels whinering does cause earthquakes and volcanoes. Oh, and meteors too. Dinosaurs lived in a much hotter climate (thanks to their use of fossil fuels—er, um, well something like that, besides, I’m speaking to a Higher Truth, thus facts don’t matter) and they got wiped out by a giant meteorite.
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It’s more widespread than you’d believe.
A colleague of mine, a project manager working for a fund manager, actually suggested to me that the tsunami and Hurricane Katrina was “the Earth trying to tell us something”.
I was gobsmacked, astounded. How does one even respond to such idiocy? I simply stood in awe at the power of our society; a society which could allow somebody so utterly stupid to live such a comfortable and privileged existence.
Then again, he was a Kiwi.
Well those ancient Romans used lots of gas guzzling Sport Utility Chariots, and look what happened to Pompeii.
The Minoans drove Canyanero’s everywhere, and look what happened to them.
Posted by Rob Crawford on 2007 04 02 at 01:05 PM • permalinkCan’t we just build temples to stop the Global Warming gods from causing earthquakes? That’s how it’s stopped in the climate model known as Sid Meier’s Civilization.
Posted by andycanuck on 2007 04 02 at 01:07 PM • permalinkthe unseasonable heat in late winter and early spring
Where does this guy live? Early winter was oddly warm but late winter was pretty dang cold!
Posted by tim maguire on 2007 04 02 at 05:47 PM • permalink#11 And I guess methane is responsible for the Pacific’s Ring of Fire, then. It’s time for Gaia to cut back on the hot sauce.
Posted by andycanuck on 2007 04 02 at 06:27 PM • permalinkDriving home from work yesterday I was amazed to learn that the eastern seaboard of Australia had been threatened by a tidal wave and we could all, quite possibly, have been swept away. (A poster here had mentioned a BOM (bureau of meteorology) warning issued about a tsunami, however, I guessed that if we hadn’t been otherwise warned about it, it wasn’t going to affect us.)
You should hear the pollies going to town about the lack of warning.
References have been made to the Boxing Day Tsunami and loss of life from that natural disaster.
In Cairns there was a scramble to go to higher ground, apparently the road to Kuranda was packed.
Someone did the figures and figured that the tsunami heading for Australia would be about 140mm (that’s about five inches) high.
FARK! Head for the hills; we’ll all be kilt!
Unfortunately, the powers-that-be neglected to tell anyone of this development.
A colleague of mine, a project manager working for a fund manager, actually suggested to me that the tsunami and Hurricane Katrina was “the Earth trying to tell us something”.
So we’re being punished for Gaia-torture now? I got the impression from Pat Robertson that it was because of Jebus something heathens something something.
A neighbour makes a very good living out of selling hideously expensive real estate on the klongs behind Surfers Paradise.
The buyers are bull-dozing substantial 8-year-old homes and replacing them with nice new mansions.
According to the gullibles, all this land will be under metres of salt water soon so I asked her how come the prices are going up instead of down.
Her response was that people live for today and do not give nearly enough thought to the future.Didn’t Iowahawk have an article about the Boxing Day Tsunami featuring scientists claiming the sea gods were angry?
Posted by Patrick Chester on 2007 04 03 at 12:15 PM • permalink
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Those morons are still trying to convince us that tsunamis are weather-related? Ferchrissakes, why does anyone take them seriously???