tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21068675.post5217160975659074071..comments2024-03-11T11:38:56.028-07:00Comments on A Fisherman Knits: The Ultimate RantAaronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05150805906414546377noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21068675.post-22686955856419323352015-03-01T10:47:16.254-08:002015-03-01T10:47:16.254-08:00Nuclear Energy > Coal, wind, solar. Just sayin...Nuclear Energy > Coal, wind, solar. Just sayin'.Katehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13789276320303921677noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21068675.post-75226187263592837562015-02-17T10:27:52.186-08:002015-02-17T10:27:52.186-08:00re Storegga,
And, Homer reminds us of 2 large ts...re Storegga, <br /><br />And, Homer reminds us of 2 large tsunamis in the Mediterranean associated with volcanic eruptions.<br /><br />The 2004 tsunami may have been the deadliest tsunami in history and it killed about 160,000 of the 6,400,000,0000 people alive at the time. On a global basis, most people survived the event. However many people the Storegga killed, it did not affect many people in China, Africa or the Americas.<br /><br />The bad lands "Pot Holes" of Washington State are attributed to erosion floods from a Lake Missoula dammed by ice. However, an ice dam will not withstand a hydraulic head of more than ~18 ft, so we know that the flood was caused by a progressive structural collapse of a frozen Lake Missoula with shallow super glacial lakes producing the wave terraces.<br /><br />Similar analysis shows that discharges of Lake Agassiz were the progressive structural collapse of solid ice structures - which is not to say that there were not periods when there were substantial liquid lakes there. There are similar and larger outflow patterns on Antarctica. Such a progressive structural collapse of a major ice sheet could produce a significant tsunamis. <br /><br />Compared to potential major eruptions of large volcanoes such as produced by the Yellowstone Caldera or the Long Valley Caldera, or major asteroid strikes, tsunamis in recent times have had rather small impacts on population.<br /><br />What particularly scares me about events such as Storegga is the potential for large releases of sea floor methane. This is not in our (IPCC) models, and such uncertainty is not our friend.<br /><br /><br />Aaronhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05150805906414546377noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21068675.post-47655635414882356962015-02-16T15:17:20.155-08:002015-02-16T15:17:20.155-08:00Thank you for this! My engineer husband, who is ...Thank you for this! My engineer husband, who is very politically conservative, refuses to think that AGW is real. I will share this post with him & it might make a difference. Thanks again!helenkohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16885523787103369661noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21068675.post-53016762132770146472015-02-13T01:47:46.255-08:002015-02-13T01:47:46.255-08:00And things like the Storegga Tsunami can happen at...And things like the Storegga Tsunami can happen at any time:<br />http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DoggerlandAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16957980589622129708noreply@blogger.com