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Posted Wed Mar 16 2011: from Montreal Gazette:
Could global warming be causing recent earthquakes? http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1300316288
Severe earthquakes in Haiti, Chile and now Japan have experts around the world asking whether the world's tectonic plates are becoming more active -- and what could be causing it. Some scientists theorize that the sudden melting of glaciers due to man-made climate change is lightening the load on the Earth's surface, allowing its mantle to rebound upwards and causing plates to become unstuck....The surface of the Earth is elastic. A heavy load such as a glacier will cause it to sink, pushing aside the liquid rock underneath.
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'Doc Michael says:
Regardless, these earthquakes are good practice for the Apocalypse.

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