We had some really great threads last year, with the following four nominated for the Thread of the Year award in this January's Environment Site Awards ceremony.
I read your post, very interesting. Since you are a scientist I would like to ask your opinion about something I can't get a straight answer on. I don't have an opinion about what is causing this climate incident, but I do beleive one is happening because the ice is melting so fast and I myself have noticed changes in the weather over the years, I'm 55, so I've been watching awhile. I don't want to hear about CO2, cycles or even your theory with all due respect, though it sounds as good as any. What I want to know is what is going to happen to our physical world and when, don't care why. Personally I beleive it's out of our hands anyway when you hear reports saying "it's worse than we thought" all the time. Are we in danger? Should we be preparing for big events, or just go home and watch TV?
Cerro Prieto Volcano
The first dramatic display of the mud volcanoes in historic times was triggered by the earthquake of November 29, 1852. On that day, at twenty minutes past noon, a violent quake was felt at Fort Yuma. "The most extraordinary circumstance was down the river [from the fort] in a W.S.W. direction some 20 or 25 miles in a straight line where immense columns of white steam rose to a great height." "The appearance of this column with its narrow base and its wide expanded top was most beautiful; it was supposed to be the steam arising from a hot spring which had just found its way to the surface. This column of steam lasted but a few minutes. Twice within a quarter of an hour two much smaller columns were seen to arise and disappear."
The Earthquake activity at Guadalupe Victoria, Baja California and Mexicali may be the return of the Cerro Prieto Volcano observed in 1852.
The Moon will be intersecting Saturn in a few days on the 21st near full Moon. Saturn is 100,000,000 miles closer to Earth than the Sun.
One should expect more larger earthquakes near the area and near Mammoth, Calif. The same parameters in the solar system are occurring now as was experienced in 1852.
