More Global Cooling/Warming/Change hoax.

[Larry L.]

Yellowstone caldera? Pffft. We've built our largest city (Auckland) on a field of some 53 volcanoes.... and Taupo, just 3 hours drive south of Auckland, is the site of the largest volcanic eruption the world has seen in the past 70,000 years (hmmm, maybe we Kiwis are just not very bright). Very scenic at the moment though....

Your post reminded me of a George Carlin line on that subject given during a dissertation on messing with nature. He said something close to:

"And then there are people who build their houses right next to a volcano and wonder why they have LAVA in their living room."

 

More on the phenomenon here. We get huge waves for foam on the beaches here (up to 4 feet thick at times), but not ice...

Ice Wave Comes Ashore, Threatens Homes in Minnesota [VIDEO[ | HEAVY

 

[Keith]

Yellowstone caldera? Pffft. We've built our largest city (Auckland) on a field of some 53 volcanoes.... and Taupo, just 3 hours drive south of Auckland, is the site of the largest volcanic eruption the world has seen in the past 70,000 years (hmmm, maybe we Kiwis are just not very bright). Very scenic at the moment though....

Oooh, very Montserrat - still, I expect the land is cheap....

Still, talking about Yellowstone, a crater 4,000 sq kms and a magma chamber (the world's largest at 80 kms long by 20 kms wide) which on it's last eruption projected some 1000 km3 rock skywards is going to get my attention, even if it only registers a meh or two on everyone elses' consciousness.

And only guarded by a picnic grabbing bear?

Whatever, if only one of these goes critical - it'll be goodnight planet, so why don't the clever clogs drill down and acquire some of that nice naturally molten stuff to power the planet? I'm sure Bruce Willis would help..

 

[Bob Fechter]

Even Willis can't go around the Greenies.

 

The peculiar thing is, Keith, that property in Auckland is the most expensive in the country, and in Wellington, which is built on a massive fault line, property is not far behind. Go figure.

 

[Keith]

I think it may be fairly straightforward Brian - "it can't possibly happen to us!" :laugh:

Can it? :surprised:

 

[Jack]

Piss on their ashes and make mud!

 

[Keith]

Piss on their ashes and make mud!

Are you all right today Jack? :anxious:

 

[Robert May Eng.]

The peculiar thing is, Keith, that property in Auckland is the most expensive in the country, and in Wellington, which is built on a massive fault line, property is not far behind. Go figure.

I read an article about the theoretical/probable effects of a tsunami hitting California. According to experts this is going to happen with the loss of thousands of lives, insurance companies have calculated the losses and all is well as far as they are concerned because they reckon to still be in profit. No mention of the devastation or loss of human life, nor mention in anticipation of this moving folk from the most vulnerable places , is life really this cheap. Sort of smacks of allowing the building of the towns below sea level along the Mississippi.

Bob

 

[Larry L.]

I read an article about the theoretical/probable effects of a tsunami hitting California. According to experts this is going to happen with the loss of thousands of lives, insurance companies have calculated the losses and all is well as far as they are concerned because they reckon to still be in profit. No mention of the devastation or loss of human life, nor mention in anticipation of this moving folk from the most vulnerable places , is life really this cheap. Sort of smacks of allowing the building of the towns below sea level along the Mississippi.

Bob

Even Al Gore isn't sweating the very predictions/"concerns" HE's been spouting about Cali (with regard to losing shoreline to quakes/global warming). HE bought a Cali beach house a year or two ago!

 

[Keith]

Yeah, in Nevada... :quirk:

 

[Larry L.]

You're warped, Keith!

 

[Keith]

Na, I heard most of the prime "nouveau" shoreline in Nevada, other side of the SA Fault Line has already been sold out years ago... I'll bet Ally Pally is in there somewhere..

 

[Jim Craik]

I read an article about the theoretical/probable effects of a tsunami hitting California. According to experts this is going to happen with the loss of thousands of lives, insurance companies have calculated the losses and all is well as far as they are concerned because they reckon to still be in profit. No mention of the devastation or loss of human life, nor mention in anticipation of this moving folk from the most vulnerable places , is life really this cheap. Sort of smacks of allowing the building of the towns below sea level along the Mississippi.Bob

Bob,

Most of California's coast looks a lot like this, I'm not sure a Tsunami would do much to this coast.



There are some fairly low areas near LA, but most of the California coast has cliffs like this. In my lifetime we have been hit by several Tsunamis, the damage was limited to fairly small harbor areas like Crescent City and Santa Cruz.

 

[Keith]

I'm no expert but well over half of the Californian coast line is less than 50' high. Small potatoes in a Tsunami, or if it has a Spanish kind of name perhaps it doesn't count.

I feel a graph coming on....:idea:

 

[Jim Craik]

Even Al Gore isn't sweating the very predictions/"concerns" HE's been spouting about Cali (with regard to losing shoreline to quakes/global warming). HE bought a Cali beach house a year or two ago!

Larry,

This is the view from Al Gores "beach house", Do you think Tsunamis will be a problem?

 

[Robert May Eng.]

Bob,

Most of California's coast looks a lot like this, I'm not sure a Tsunami would do much to this coast.



There are some fairly low areas near LA, but most of the California coast has cliffs like this. In my lifetime we have been hit by several Tsunamis, the damage was limited to fairly small harbor areas like Crescent City and Santa Cruz.

Jim I know its pure speculation but the article I read mentioned the possibility of a tsunami a mile high and running inland for miles. That coastline is well short of a mile high.

Bob

 

[Larry L.]

As usual, Jim, you've missed the point completely.

 

[Keith]

Obfuscation.

 

[Robert May Eng.]

I feel a graph coming on....:idea:

Bob:toilet: