Vladimir, the plates are under pressure from both ends. One of the ends usually being driven under another plate. Mass isn’t even a significant factor. If you push a 2×4 against the wall, with a nickel resting on top of the 2×4, then have someone lift off the nickel, nothing will happen.
There are markings of glaciers all over the mountains in my area. They were not only so-called heavy, but also ‘rivers of ice’. They cut the mountainsides, but did not move them. Flaking, and freeze thaw, account for much more mountain mass removal than the actions of glaciers. These guys are a waste of time.

in an article by Alan Weisman. Weisman isn’t an engineer, either – his education was in literature – but he plays one for global warming.

The HuffPo blogger seems to have ripped his theory off almost verbatim.

But the pretense of scientific certainty has been blown out of the water by the recent scandals anyway – why fake data and graphs and suppress dissent and violate the law to keep it all secret if the facts are really on your side? So the target audience is the stupid and gullible (or, as we recently have come to know them, “Obama voters”), so like the bandits in Treasure of the Sierra Madre, they say, “Qualifications? We don’t need no stinkin’ qualifications!”

what is he doing writing for HuffPo? I know that the recession hit hard, but really…

Organized crime is well established in the climate industry having had years to get set up without interference. Unfortunately many people are unaware that recent climate ‘science’ claims do not hold up. The hockey stick creator even said in recent weeks that his claims have been given a clean bill of health and he was not disputed. A few people may be aware it was rigged to transfer trillions from evil US taxpayers to various crooks, and that carbon trading is made to order for organized crime. There is almost nothing about this whole thing including wind farms and solar panels that hasn’t been stolen or is about to be.

I love these idiots who “play engineer/climate expert on TV” who spout this nonsense– let ‘em keep speaking and making a fool of themselves, I say– as long as we are allowed to debunk them of course…….

Just yesterday afternoon.

Sounds like a normal day at Redsate. Does Sandler spend his down time lurking? HuffPo readers don’t sound as if they’re fully committed to the “science” either. Or was that just trolling?

Sounds like a normal day at Redsate. Does Sandler spend his down time lurking? HuffPo readers don’t sound as if they’re fully committed to the “science” either. Or was that just trolling?

Three words…………Chicago Climate Exchange. Did anyone see this on Glenn Beck’s show yesterday?
The so-called “brain” behind the CCX claims that the carbon credit industry will be a 10 Trillion dollar a year industry. Is it any wonder that the 5th largest owner of CCX is Al Gore and GOLDMAN SACHS employees??? And the “go-to” person for selling shares in CCX??? None other than Obama himself.
I wish I had a link to his show to explain how he laid it all out, but it’s obviously all about money and as long as they can scare the wits out of people to keep them subservient and make themselves rich, they will do everything they can to make it happen.

Man made magma warming!

“My brother took a suitcase and he went away to school
My father said he only learned to be a silly fool”

(Lyric from “Manana” by Peggy Lee…)

How about you, Mr. Matai?

Lesson 1: The earth’s crust is anywhere from 20 to 30 miles thick, and is composed of solid rock.

Lesson #2: Solid Rock – depending on variety – can weigh anywhere from 160 – 190 pounds per cubic foot.

Lesson 3: Solid ice weighs about 57 – 58 pounds per cubic foot.

Lesson 4: Ergo, ice is lighter than rock.

Lesson 5: Conservatively, a square core of rock (1 ft x 1 ft x 20 miles thick) , at an average of 175 lbs / cu. ft. would weigh 18,480,000 pounds, or 9240 tons.

Lesson 6: Conversely, a square core of solid ice from a glacier 2,000 feet thick would weigh 114,000 pounds, or 57 tons – or a mere 0.617% of the 20-mile deep rock on which it sits. (Hardly the lead-on-cork scenario described in the theory.)

Lesson 7: In order for a glacier to weigh THE SAME as the rock on which it lies, the glacier would have to be about 61.4 miles thick.

Lesson 8: Solid lead weighs about 710 pounds per cubic foot; cork: about 15, for a ratio of 47.33 to 1. In order for a glacier to exert a comparable amount of pressure on the earth’s crust as the lead-on-cork premise, the glacier would have to be 2906 miles thick!

If the theory that the resulting reduction in weight that melting glaciers presents on the earth’s crust were true, why don’t we have similar seismic or subterranean “events” every time a large building is demolished? Or an avalanche cuts loose from a mountain side?

Tomorrow’s Lesson: How GM and ACORN are teaming up to drive the country off a cliff / into the ground.

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