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<font size="+2" face="Calibri"><i><b>February 9, 2023</b></i></font><font
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<i>[ The Jerusalem Post says maybe, maybe not ]</i><br>
<b>Earthquakes: What causes them and is climate change involved? -
explainer</b><br>
How do earthquakes happen? How can they be predicted or stopped?
Where do earthquakes happen the most and is climate change involved?<br>
By AARON REICH <br>
FEBRUARY 8, 2023<br>
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<b>Does climate change cause earthquakes?</b><br>
First off, there is no connection between weather and earthquakes,
despite a myth going back thousands of years to the contrary (though
technically there are "slow earthquakes" that can happen due to
hurricanes, but these are gradual and cause little to no damage, as
the USGS noted).<br>
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This makes sense since earthquakes happen underground, where surface
temperature and conditions are irrelevant. <br>
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However, climate change can in theory have an impact on earthquakes.
This is because the only real variable in earthquakes is the amount
of stress on a fault line. According to NASA geophysicist Paul
Lundgren, the main way this could happen is if climate change caused
surface water to add to the stress on a fault.<br>
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These do happen and are known as microseismicity, tiny earthquakes
with magnitudes below zero on the Richter scale that humans can't
feel.<br>
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Then there are droughts. As noted by NASA researcher Donald Argus,
droughts can alter the size of mountains due to a loss of water.
This could, in theory, result in a change of stress on faults. Other
studies have also noted that groundwater extraction by humans during
droughts can also impact stress by essentially changing the weight
of the planet's crust, which could cause changes between both sides
of a fault line and could, in theory, cause an earthquake.<br>
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Then there are glaciers, which themselves move around. As glaciers
move around due to climate change, these can cause glacial
earthquakes. This can actually reduce earthquakes because it will
reduce stress loads.<br>
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But this comes at the cost of increasing magma movement, which could
therefore in theory cause volcanic eruptions to become more
frequent, as noted by NASA.<br>
<br>
The key to all of this is "in theory," though. Because earthquakes
are so unpredictable, it is extremely difficult to say for sure how
much of a role climate change could play.<br>
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But while climate change's roles are unclear, the role of the same
processes that cause climate change is far more evident.<br>
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As explained by the USGS, earthquakes in the central and eastern US
have skyrocketed in recent years. Between 1973 and 2008, the eastern
US had an average of 21 earthquakes a year between magnitude 3 and a
bit larger. But Between 2009 and 2013, this jumped to 99 magnitude 3
earthquakes and higher per year. 2014 alone had 659 magnitude 3 and
above earthquakes. Some of these were even as high as magnitude 5.6,
which is enough to cause damage.<br>
<br>
And all of this seems to be due to gas and oil production, the very
things that are the most destructive in terms of greenhouse gas
emissions and worsening climate change. Specifically, it is because
of how wastewater is injected in deep disposal wells, which
essentially lubricates the faults. However, the USGS states that
fracking doesn't have this effect. <br>
<br>
So in other words, climate change may or may not be a factor in
earthquakes, but the same things that cause climate change are. <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.jpost.com/science/article-730935">https://www.jpost.com/science/article-730935</a><br>
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<i>[ See the data for yourself USGS ]</i><br>
<b>Find recent or historic earthquakes, lists, information on
selected significant earthquakes, earthquake resources by state,
or find webservices.</b><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/browse/significant.php">https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/browse/significant.php</a><br>
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<i>[ YouTube - DW cameras get on private jets, ask questions, shows
us dreck. 27 min ]</i><br>
<b>Climate change and the rich | DW Documentary</b><br>
DW Documentary<br>
4.57M subscribers<br>
66,727 views Feb 7, 2023 #dwdocumentary #wealth #documentary<br>
Wealthy people are responsible for far more greenhouse gas emissions
than poorer people. To reduce carbon footprints and prevent the
worst effects of the climate crisis, one climate researcher is
proposing a CO2 cap and trade system for individuals.<br>
<br>
Disasters such as droughts, fires, and floods are occurring all over
the world, triggered by the climate crisis. To counteract this
catastrophe, Germany is among many nations pledging to slow global
warming at well below two degrees. To achieve this target, the
amount of harmful carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere must
be restricted in the coming decades.<br>
<br>
If a fundamental principle of justice were applied, Hans Joachim
Schellnhuber from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
says that each person would be allowed to emit no more than three
tons of CO2 per year by 2050. But Germans are a long way from
achieving this target, with an average carbon footprint of eight to
ten tons. By burning fossil fuels, many millionaires emit more than
100 tons of carbon dioxide per year, and the world’s wealthiest
individuals emit thousands of tons each.<br>
<br>
Most of the rich protagonists in this film show no willingness to
reduce their climate-damaging behavior. One of them flies in a
private jet, while another drives a gas-guzzling sports car for fun.<br>
<br>
Schellnhuber, a renowned scientist, is therefore calling for a
carbon cap to be imposed on individuals, while allowing private
trading in CO2 credits. He proposes that each person receives an
allowance of three tons of CO2 per year. Those who need more would
have to buy from those who consume less, Schellnhuber suggests.<br>
<br>
However, German Economy and Climate Minister Robert Habeck from the
Green Party is not in favor of individual CO2 caps. In an interview,
Habeck says he’s not focused on the question of "individual
budgets.”<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7yAk5iYm_k">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7yAk5iYm_k</a><br>
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<font face="Calibri"><i>[ either paleo-climatology, or climate
paleontology ] <br>
</i></font><font face="Calibri"><b>Improving the relevance of
paleontology to climate change policy</b><br>
Wolfgang Kiessling, Jansen A. Smith, and Nussaïbah B. Raja<br>
February 6, 2023<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2201926119"
moz-do-not-send="true">https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2201926119</a></font><br>
<font face="Calibri"><b>Abstract</b><br>
Paleontology has provided invaluable basic knowledge on the
history of life on Earth. The discipline can also provide
substantial knowledge to societal challenges such as climate
change. The long-term perspective of climate change impacts on
natural systems is both a unique selling point and a major
obstacle to becoming more pertinent for policy-relevant bodies
like the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
Repeated experiments on the impacts of climate change without
anthropogenic disturbance facilitate the extraction of climate
triggers in biodiversity changes. At the same time, the long
timescales over which paleontological changes are usually assessed
are beyond the scope of policymakers. Based on first-hand
experience with the IPCC and a quantitative analysis of its cited
literature, we argue that the differences in temporal scope are
less of an issue than inappropriate framing and reporting of most
paleontological publications. Accepting that some obstacles will
remain, paleontology can quickly improve its relevance by
targeting climate change impacts more directly and focusing on
effect sizes and relevance for projections, particularly on
higher-end climate change scenarios.<br>
</font><font face="Calibri"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2201926119"
moz-do-not-send="true">https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2201926119</a><br>
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<font face="Calibri"><i>[ Super-double-powerful propaganda from the
Oil Industry - see the classic video ]</i></font><br>
<font face="Calibri"><b>Life Runs On Energy, Connected by Oil and
Natural Gas, Energy Transfer TV Commercial</b><br>
Energy Transfer<br>
3,892,854 views Nov 24, 2021<br>
</font><font face="Calibri"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOURX29-eFQ"
moz-do-not-send="true">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOURX29-eFQ</a><br>
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<p><font face="Calibri">- -</font></p>
<font face="Calibri"><i>[ the YouTube channel archive for oil
industry propaganda ]</i><br>
</font><font face="Calibri"><b>Energy Transfer</b><br>
</font><font face="Calibri"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/@EnergyTransferFacts/videos"
moz-do-not-send="true">https://www.youtube.com/@EnergyTransferFacts/videos</a></font>
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<font face="Calibri"><i>[ Wanda Sykes shows it and talks about it
and mocks it skillfully - video ]</i><br>
</font><b>Wanda Sykes Tackles Trump's Awkward Eulogy & Biden's
Classified Documents | The Daily Show</b><br>
The Daily Show<br>
1,571,449 views Jan 23, 2023 #DailyShow #Comedy<br>
Wanda Sykes covers the latest news, including Donald Trump's awkward
eulogy at Diamond's funeral, more classified documents found in
President Biden's home, the Church of England blessing same-sex
marriage but not allowing same-sex weddings in the church, and a
ridiculous oil and gas commercial. #DailyShow #Comedy <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M05WyTZjB10&t=333s"
moz-do-not-send="true">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M05WyTZjB10&t=333s</a><br>
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<i>[ It happened in Seattle where styrofoam made the difference -
video ]</i><br>
<b>Why Some Roadways Are Made of Styrofoam</b><br>
Practical Engineering<br>
3.14M subscribers<br>
37,405 views Feb 7, 2023<br>
What do you do when soil is too heavy for the job? Use lightweight
backfill!<br>
Over the years, engineers have come up with a lot of creative ways
to mitigate the settlement of heavy stuff on soft soils, but one of
those solutions seems so simple that it’s almost unbelievable: just
make embankments less heavy.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t65tbfU9sCI"
moz-do-not-send="true">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t65tbfU9sCI</a><br>
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<font face="Calibri"> <i>[ High geek factor -- economics nicely
explained -- predicated on a technology future - comment: "Your
progression into a source of scientific information on our
transition to renewables and electric vehicles is really
important and interesting to watch Thanks "]</i></font><br>
<font face="Calibri"> </font> <font face="Calibri"><b>The True
Cost of Renewables - LCOE Calcs with John Poljak | Engineering
with Rosie Live ep. 20</b><br>
Engineering with Rosie<br>
61.8K subscribers<br>
2,774 views Jan 20, 2023 #FullyChargedLIVE<br>
This is a follow up livestream from my recent upload <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://youtu.be/quI_8xYSWYE" moz-do-not-send="true">https://youtu.be/quI_8xYSWYE</a>
on LCOE (levelised cost of energy) from solar, wind, combined
cycle gas, geothermal, coal and nuclear. Plus transmission and
storage costs needed to integrate a lot of variable renewables
into the grid. <br>
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Do you have opinions about the assumptions I’ve made in that
video? Or ideas about more realistic ones? I think that is so fun
to play around with the calculations like that, and so I’m going
to get John Poljack from Keynumbers <a
class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="http://www.keynumbers.com" moz-do-not-send="true">www.keynumbers.com</a>
on for this livestream to run through the Keynumbers for a bunch
of these. As well as changing fuel prices to reflect the increases
over the last year or two, we might change assumptions on capacity
factor, to reflect the trend towards coal plants operating less of
the time, or nuclear’s current woes in France, where it is sitting
at around 60% capacity factor for 2022. Or we could change asset
lifetimes or financing assumptions, anything at all.<br>
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Bookmarks:<br>
00:00 Intro<br>
01:38 Intro to John Poljak from Keynumbers<br>
02:44 Thanks to Weather Guard Lightning Tech for sponsoring this
livestream!<br>
03:14 Challenges of Measurement<br>
10:34 How accurate is Lazard (Capital Cost)?<br>
13:03 Accuracy of capacity factors (US figures)<br>
15:31 Why is capacity factor for coal very low?<br>
17:18 Reduction in capacity factor due to increasing renewables -
David Osmond NEM Simulation<br>
20:08 Increasing wind energy in the UK<br>
23:36 Delays in Constructing Nuclear<br>
26:06 Mass Production Nuclear - NuScale SMR<br>
29:32 Nuclear Project Lifetime<br>
40:30 Decommissioning Costs<br>
44:12 Nuclear Waste Storage and Accidents<br>
46:19 Impact of Subsidies<br>
49:21 Carbon Tax<br>
53:31 Offshore Wind<br>
55:08 Variation in Renewables by Location<br>
55:28 Storage Requirements<br>
57:01 Electric Vehicles as Storage - V2G<br>
59:05 System Costs in Renewable Energy<br>
1:03:45 Rosie at Fully ChargedLIVE Australia Sydney March 11-12<br>
1:04:04 Outro<br>
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🎙Listen to the Uptime Podcast on Spotify: <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://bit.ly/uptimepod"
moz-do-not-send="true">https://bit.ly/uptimepod</a><br>
🎥Watch the Uptime Podcast on YouTube: <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://bit.ly/watchuptime"
moz-do-not-send="true">https://bit.ly/watchuptime</a><br>
✅Sign up for Uptime Tech News: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://bit.ly/uptimetech" moz-do-not-send="true">https://bit.ly/uptimetech</a><br>
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If you would like to help develop the Engineering with Rosie
channel, you could consider joining the Patreon community, where
there is a chat community (and Patreon-only Discord server) about
topics covered in the videos and suggestions for future videos and
production quality improvements. <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.patreon.com/engineeringwi"
moz-do-not-send="true">https://www.patreon.com/engineeringwi</a>...<br>
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href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kx5hLwHoq0A"
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<i><font face="Calibri">[ video lectures on Apocalyptic and Post
Apocalyptic studies ]</font></i><br>
<font face="Calibri"><b>Emily Ray: Beyond the Bunker: Colonizing
Space, Building Offworlds</b><br>
Centre for Apocalyptic & Post-Apocalyptic Studies<br>
Started streaming 2/7/23 <br>
Emily Ray: Beyond the Bunker: Colonizing Space, Building Offworlds<br>
CAPAS - Lecture Series 2022-2023<br>
</font><font face="Calibri"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XbbxXzAakA"
moz-do-not-send="true">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XbbxXzAakA</a><br>
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<font face="Calibri"> <i>[The news archive - looking back at the
media suppression of information. ]</i><br>
<font size="+2"><i><b>February 9, 2007</b></i></font> <br>
February 9, 2007: Boston Globe columnist Ellen Goodman becomes the
target of vicious online right-wing criticism for writing a piece
in which she observes:<br>
<br>
"By every measure, the U.N.‘s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate
Change raises the level of alarm. The fact of global warming is
'unequivocal.' The certainty of the human role is now somewhere
over 90 percent. Which is about as certain as scientists ever get.<br>
<br>
"I would like to say we’re at a point where global warming is
impossible to deny. Let’s just say that global-warming deniers are
now on a par with Holocaust deniers, though one denies the past
and the other denies the present and future."<br>
<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.truthdig.com/articles/political-climate-change-needed/"
moz-do-not-send="true">https://www.truthdig.com/articles/political-climate-change-needed/</a>
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