{"id":372946,"date":"2025-03-31T16:55:27","date_gmt":"2025-03-31T14:55:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=372946"},"modified":"2025-03-31T16:55:28","modified_gmt":"2025-03-31T14:55:28","slug":"climate-earthquakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=372946","title":{"rendered":"Climate earthquakes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Attentive readers of this blog will certainly remember.
We report here from time to time about Simone Peter. The former party leader of the Greens is now a lobbyist for renewable energies.
In this role, she writes a lot on social media and there also on X (formerly Twitter).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With every catastrophe and every natural event, you can be clear that it puts it in a context with climate change (she doesn’t use the word, it’s always at least the climate crisis).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

High temperatures in summer in Siberia, fires in Siberia or in Los Angeles, rainfall of any kind, storm surges on the North Sea, it is always the “man-made climate crisis”, other reasons are completely ruled out for her.
So, Peter uses such events for PR, which is supposed to help the members of the association she leads, because the solution is always the same: Germany must build more wind turbines and more solar, this is the only way to prevent natural disasters all over the world, because according to their logic, they all depend on our behavior in Germany.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scientists are certainly not happy about their latest statements, because Peter actually manages to put the earthquake in Southeast Asia into context with the climate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Peter apparently refers to an article that the taz<\/a> once published.
She quickly followed up when some X users virtually showed her a bird.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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When this load begins to melt noticeably, the continent begins to rise like a cork in water. The reason: The rock of the continents is less dense than that of the Earth’s mantle. And because fault zones run through the Earth’s crust, such load changes can also trigger earthquakes. “These load changes can increase the stresses in the Earth just as much as years of tectonic movements, and ultimately they can trigger earthquakes,” says Freymueller.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Actually, an old rush is being told here. Decreasing pressure can lead to uplifts of the earth’s crust. Very easy to see in Scandinavia. There the land rises. But we are talking about ice masses that had covered almost the entire area of Scandinavia and besides, these are processes that extended over long periods of time. The last ice age was 10,000 years ago, the ice layer in Scandinavia was up to 3,500 meters high.

But what Peter completely misses here: They are theses, and the scientists therefore use the words “may”, “could” or “seem” and “seems”.

Already in the beginning of the article the uncertainty is addressed by formulating it as a question.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I think we all agree that climate change plays a role in earthquake events,” says Niels Hovius, geomorphologist at the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ) in Potsdam<\/a>. “The only question is which aspect is really important.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

For Peter, however, all this is settled, she cleverly puts the scientists’ thesis in a context to the recent earthquake, which is already very perfidious, because it has to do PR for her association, because it has the solution to all the problems of this world.

The causes of the current quake are named by the same institute to which the taz referred, and they are clearly named. They are also understandable. There is nothing about climate or melting glaciers. It is plate tectonics.

SWP:<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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According to the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ) in Potsdam, the earthquake occurred in the Sagaing Fault. Here, the Indian continental plate and the Eurasian plate are moving past each other at a speed of about 18 millimeters per year. Tensions are building up that are repeatedly discharged – as is now the case after a calmer phase that had lasted for almost 70 years, the German Research Centre for Geosciences explained. Its experts currently assume a fracture length of more than 200 kilometers.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

It wouldn’t be so bad if Peter didn’t also have a scientific education behind him. It was biology, but it should actually know the difference between scientific and non-scientific. Why she still makes such strange postings remains absolutely mysterious.
Your association is doing splendidly, the subsidies are pouring into billions and there is no danger in sight that this will change.
So there is no reason to make connections that do not exist.
But we can also assume in 2025 that no matter what natural disaster occurs, the lobbyist will make a connection with the climate and also know the solution right away. More wind power and solar in Germany.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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