{"id":59906,"date":"2021-10-16T06:46:07","date_gmt":"2021-10-16T11:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=59906"},"modified":"2021-10-16T06:46:07","modified_gmt":"2021-10-16T11:46:07","slug":"does-climate-change-increase-earthquakes-and-volcanic-activity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=59906","title":{"rendered":"Does Climate Change Increase Earthquakes and Volcanic Activity?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Does Climate Change Increase Earthquakes and Volcanic Activity?<\/a><\/h3>\n
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From top; Columbia Glacier, Mount Blackburn, Worthington Glacier, Matanuska Glacier<\/div>\n
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Something many people aren’t aware of is just how climate change is affecting natural disasters once thought to have no connection to weather and\/or climate – earthquakes and volcanic activity. Unfortunately, these two phenomena are predicted to also get much worse over time due to isostatic rebound<\/a>\u00a0caused by the melting of the ice sheets and glaciers.\u00a0A new study<\/a>\u00a0demonstrates this rather well; but\u00a0an even gloomier study<\/a>\u00a0also explains how this issue can also affect the release of\u00a0methane<\/a>\u00a0hydrates.\u00a0Methane hydrates<\/a>\u00a0are a mixture of methane and ice held in place by temperature and pressure. They are also known by various other names, quote:<\/p>\n

“Several other names are commonly used for methane hydrate. These include: methane clathrate, hydromethane, methane ice, fire ice, natural gas hydrate, and gas hydrate. Most methane hydrate deposits also contain small amounts of other hydrocarbon hydrates. These include propane hydrate and ethane hydrate.<\/i>“<\/b><\/p>\n

So, these predicaments by themselves interact with several other predicaments and are threat multipliers.\u00a0Another study<\/a>\u00a0points out how melting glaciers contribute to earthquakes. As most people well know, melting glaciers and\u00a0thawing permafrost<\/a>\u00a0also cause\u00a0sea level rise<\/a>, increased carbon\u00a0emissions<\/a>, landscape slumps,\u00a0thermokarst lakes and depressions<\/a>, and many other issues covered in the\u00a0file on the cryosphere<\/a>. Sheesh, just these two paragraphs in and of themselves are a feast for research into positive feedback loops!<\/p>\n

Another study<\/a>\u00a0shows how isostatic rebound can also affect ice sheets grounded in the ocean. So, adding volcanoes and earthquakes to the list of effects climate change exacerbates and knowing that climate change is caused by ecological overshoot, this means that there are even far more disasters we have to look forward to in the future than previously thought.<\/p>\n

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Does Climate Change Increase Earthquakes and Volcanic Activity? From top; Columbia Glacier, Mount Blackburn, Worthington Glacier, Matanuska Glacier Something many people aren’t aware of is just how climate change is affecting natural disasters once thought to have no connection to weather and\/or climate – earthquakes and volcanic activity. Unfortunately, these two phenomena are predicted to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[113,222,31189,31974,31973,31180,9036],"class_list":["post-59906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-carbon-emissions","tag-earthquakes","tag-erik-michaels","tag-feedback-loopsclimate-change","tag-isostatic-rebound","tag-problems-predicaments-and-technology","tag-volcanic-activity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59906"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59906\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59907,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59906\/revisions\/59907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}