Oh, fudge
By Jim Dallas
The New Republic has got a story up debunking the allegedly wide-spread belief that global warming is related to last month's tsunami.
I'm not sure how wide-spread this actually is (and I only get to see the first couple grafs, since I haven't been crazy enough to, you know, actually subscribe to TNR in years).
Nonetheless, the fact that such a story exists in an occasionally-respectable magazine greatly reduces my faith in humanity.
FYI, tsunamis are low-frequency waves generated (usually) by seismic activity. In other words the earth shakes, and the ocean sloshes around. None of this has anything to do with greenhouse gases.
Posted by Jim Dallas at January 6, 2005 04:33 PM
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Of course the earthquake wasn't caused by global warming.
The relationship, if there is any, has to do with rising sea levels in lowlying areas.
In the global warning scenario, the ice caps melt, ocean levels rise, and heavily populated areas near the sea will be more vulnerable to floods, hurricanes, and tsunamis.
