Did you feel it?

[Chernabog]

Originally Posted by JWBear

If I see one more idiotic internet comment that this is "proof" of the 2012 predictions, I'm going to barf.

I can haz Rapture?

[Jazzman]

Originally Posted by JWBear

If I see one more idiotic internet comment that this is "proof" of the 2012 predictions, I'm going to barf.

Duh, silly. Earthquakes aren't proof of the 2012 predictions. They're proof of the global warming climate change predictions! Duh!!!

[Ghoulish Delight]

Originally Posted by Jazzman

Duh, silly. Earthquakes aren't proof of the 2012 predictions. They're proof of the global warming climate change predictions! Duh!!!

At risk of dragging this down a frustrating path...I think you'll find that the same people who tell climate change deniers to shove it when claim a snow storm in winter disproves global warming, will equally tell anyone that says these earthquakes prove global warming to shove it. I dare you to find any voice that anyone in the scientific community takes seriously saying that 2 big earthquakes=proof of climate change. Go ahead, count them up. Then go and count up the number of people who are considered legitimate voices from the deniers side that were tripping over themselves to claim climate change is over based on a snow storm in D.C. Let me take a wild guess as to which number will be bigger.

[SzczerbiakManiac]

Well I say that life is an illusion and that reality is simply a figment of the imagination.

[BarTopDancer]

Truth, dare or double dare?

[Jazzman]

Originally Posted by Ghoulish Delight

At risk of dragging this down a frustrating path... <and so on and so on>

It was a joke, man. Seriously. Earthquake as climate change evidence? Come on... How more obvious could I have made it.

[Ghoulish Delight]

Sorry.

I've already actually seen some shrieking from the denier crowd, and they weren't joking. "How long until the quakes are tied to climate change?!?!" Reality beat you to the punchline.

[Jazzman]

Seriously? Wow... I don't know what to say. Really? An earthquake, actually tied to the climate? Kinda sucks the humor right out of the joke, doesn't it.

[Ghoulish Delight]

Originally Posted by Jazzman

Seriously? Wow... I don't know what to say. Really? An earthquake, actually tied to the climate? Kinda sucks the humor right out of the joke, doesn't it.

Well no, no (reputable) person has tied any individual quake to the climate.

Some have theorized that climate change could in the long run have an effect on techtonics. But none of them are pointing to these quakes as proof, which was my point.

What I saw was people spewing the straw man, "I bet those stupid people who believe in climate change are going to claim these quakes are proof of climate change. Can you believe how stupid they are?!"

[€uroMeinke]

slept through it, but got to work and found my office blocked by caution tape as the ceiling had buckled over my desk, more cosmetic than anything, the repairs were done in a couple hours. Meanwhile my drawers were shook open and my cocktail shaker was toppled. But my office is fault-line adjacent for this one.