Thursday, June 19, 2008

Do These People Have No Shame?

Do These People Have No Shame?

Look, there's a lot of claims out there about global warming that are at least vaguely, slightly, plausibly connected. But this is fast moving into the realm of "She turned me into a newt!" in Monty Python and the Holy Grail. This June 18, 2008 CBS News story claims:

(AP) New research compiled by Australian scientist Dr. Tom Chalko shows that global seismic activity on Earth is now five times more energetic than it was just 20 years ago.

The research proves that destructive ability of earthquakes on Earth increases alarmingly fast and that this trend is set to continue, unless the problem of "global warming" is comprehensively and urgently addressed.

The analysis of more than 386,000 earthquakes between 1973 and 2007 recorded on the US Geological Survey database proved that the global annual energy of earthquakes on Earth began increasing very fast since 1990.

Dr. Chalko said that global seismic activity was increasing faster than any other global warming indicator on Earth and that this increase is extremely alarming.
Come on. We're talking about a temperature so far measured in fractions of a degree--and this guy is claiming that this substantially increased earthquakes?

UPDATE: Apparently CBS came it its senses and pulled the story. Here's one of several refutations. And another.

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