Global Warming lawsuits will hammer state budgets!

[Billy_Bob]

All the known oil reserves will be sucked out of the ground and burned within 30-40 years.

The USA alone has 300 years of reserve..

 

[skookerasbil]

All the known oil reserves will be sucked out of the ground and burned within 30-40 years.

The USA alone has 300 years of reserve..

Indeed..... and I can't believe there are still morons saying we're going to be out of oil in 50 years. I mean, talk about flat earthers!

 

[Billy_Bob]

Kilauea Volcano Eruption Spreads Again, Sends 'Lava Bombs' 500 Feet In The Air

looks like a volcano is about to throw a bit of a tantrum..

 

[skookerasbil]

Kilauea Volcano Eruption Spreads Again, Sends 'Lava Bombs' 500 Feet In The Air

looks like a volcano is about to throw a bit of a tantrum..

Hey Billy....if this one blows its top, what will the effect be on the climate ( i know that to the climate crusaders it will have no effect ).

 

[Sunsettommy]

Kilauea Volcano Eruption Spreads Again, Sends 'Lava Bombs' 500 Feet In The Air

looks like a volcano is about to throw a bit of a tantrum..

Hey Billy....if this one blows its top, what will the effect be on the climate ( i know that to the climate crusaders it will have no effect ).

Shield Volcanoes of Hawaii don't erupt very high into the atmosphere, which is where most of the significant climatic impact can be found. Stratovolcanoes are the ones to watch for due their much higher vertical eruptive potential.

 

[Old Rocks]

The eruption of Kilauea is not much of an issue. Maybe a billion dollars in damage in the worst case. However, it can have other effects that could cost a couple of trillion, Hawaii, and from South America to Alaska.

 

[skookerasbil]

Perhaps I'm wrong but isn't this the volcano that could actually crack off and fall into the sea causing a massive tsunami?

 

[skookerasbil]

Kinda figured this thread would fizzle out altogether Billy.

 

[Sunsettommy]

Perhaps I'm wrong but isn't this the volcano that could actually crack off and fall into the sea causing a massive tsunami?

Shield Volcanoes have a stronger more stable base than Stratovolcanoes, thus unlikely to do that. Underwater or near the shore EARTHQUAKES are the dominant factor in producing Tsunami Waves.

 

[watchingfromafar]

Indeed..... and I can't believe there are still morons saying we're going to be out of oil in 50 years. I mean, talk about flat earthers!

This might be a little over your head but the known oil reserves is "known". The rate we are consuming this finite resource is "known" as well. Now take out your calculator and divide annual consumption into total reserves. If you have children I am sure they can do the math for you is you can't.

 

[skookerasbil]

Indeed..... and I can't believe there are still morons saying we're going to be out of oil in 50 years. I mean, talk about flat earthers!

This might be a little over your head but the known oil reserves is "known". The rate we are consuming this finite resource is "known" as well. Now take out your calculator and divide annual consumption into total reserves. If you have children I am sure they can do the math for you is you can't.

No worries s0n.......get some real responsibilities in life and dollar to a thousand stale donuts you'll stop worrying about something as st00pid as oil reserves.

 

[watchingfromafar]

No worries s0n.......get some real responsibilities in life and dollar to a thousand stale donuts you'll stop worrying about something as st00pid as oil reserves.

So said the spider to the fly -

 

[Old Rocks]

Perhaps I'm wrong but isn't this the volcano that could actually crack off and fall into the sea causing a massive tsunami?

Shield Volcanoes have a stronger more stable base than Stratovolcanoes, thus unlikely to do that. Underwater or near the shore EARTHQUAKES are the dominant factor in producing Tsunami Waves.

Geologists have discovered evidence of an ancient 560-foot mega-tsunami.Rising from the Atlantic ocean, hundreds of miles off the coast of West Africa, there’s a volcano with a 73,000-year-old scar swiped across its face. This is the mark of an ancient catastrophe, etched into the rock when a huge chunk of the volcano’s eastern flank rushed all at once into the sea.

That particular flank collapse displaced enough water to generate a powerful tsunami—one that, new evidence shows, might have been much, much bigger than geologists previously believed. “Our work provides evidence that the well-known collapse at Fogo volcano produced a very large tsunami that impacted the nearby island of Santiago,” said Ricardo Ramalho, an Earth-sciences research fellow at the University of Bristol.

“Very large,” even by tsunami standards, seems like an understatement here.

Ramalho and his colleagues identified giant boulders almost half a mile inland, hundreds of feet above sea level, that they believe were transported by a mega-tsunami. Based on what they found, the scientists believe the tsunami swelled to a height of about 560 feet, tall as the Washington Monument, before inundating the island. “These characteristics make this event one of the largest mega-tsunamis preserved in the geological record,” Ramalho and his colleagues wrote in a paper about their findings.

Geologists Found Evidence of a Massive Ancient Tsunami - CityLab

That's for the East Coast.

 

[Old Rocks]

Perhaps I'm wrong but isn't this the volcano that could actually crack off and fall into the sea causing a massive tsunami?

Shield Volcanoes have a stronger more stable base than Stratovolcanoes, thus unlikely to do that. Underwater or near the shore EARTHQUAKES are the dominant factor in producing Tsunami Waves.

“Underwater images of the seabed surrounding the Hawaiian Islands show that they are surrounded by huge aprons of debris shed from their volcanoes over tens of millions of years,” the writer Bill McGuire wrote in his book, A Guide to the End of the World. “Within this great jumbled mass of volcanic cast-offs, nearly 70 individual giant landslides have been identified.”

In at least one such landslide, a 1,000-foot mega-tsunami slammed into the island of Lanai. A wave that big on Oahu today would almost certainly wipe out Honolulu. But scientists can’t say for sure how—or, critically, when—such a catastrophe would play out. That’s largely because no one in recorded history has seen one of these things. “The lack of direct observations means that little is still known on the mechanics of collapse development,” Ramalho and his colleagues wrote in their paper.

Most tsunamis are generated from tectonic activity. For instance, huge earthquakes triggered the two most destructive tsunamis in recent history: the 2011 Japan tsunami and the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. In both cases, record wave height topped out between around 100 feet and 130 feet.

Now imagine a tsunami five or even 10 times that size.

Most scientists agree that a catastrophic flank collapse will generate an unimaginably massive tsunami again someday, but they’re cautious about guessing when it might happen. A popular ballpark estimate: maybe sometime within the next 100,000 years. Whatever the case, a volcanic-flank collapse in Hawaii would generate a series of giant tsunamis that would likely destroy cities in several countries, including in the United States, Canada, Japan, and China, McGuire says. “In deep water, tsunamis travel with velocities comparable to a jumbo jet,” he wrote, “so barely 12 hours will elapse before the towering waves crash with the force of countless atomic bombs onto the coastlines of North America and eastern Asia.”

The Most Destructive Wave in Earth’s (Known) History

That would put major damage around the entire Pacific Rim.