That fabled multiple-levels-of-editorial-review is at work again at CBS, this time with the story heaadlined "Seismic Activity 5 Times More Energetic Than 20 Years Ago Because Of Global Warming." Now, only a journalism major who had assiduously avoided taking any science and math classes in his/her life could have possibly found this reasonable. Half degee changes in atmospheric temperatures are hardly likely to affect seismic activity (the subject of the article, Dr. Tom Chalko, has also written that global warming might make the Earth explode). Had CBS actually approached any other scientist in the world in any specialization for some kind of comment on the article, they would have likely been told that it made no sense. But, of course, MSM editorial policy is not to ask for dissenting views in global warming alarmism articles.
Well, it appears CBS has walked away from the story without comment. Anthony Watt has the whole story, including screen caps of the original article.
Now, only a journalism major who had assiduously avoided taking any science and math classes in his/her life could have possibly found this reasonable.
That would be approximately 100% of journalists. You wacky kids.
The sad thing is that this isn’t the first claim that ‘global warming’ could cause earthquakes:
http://www.celsias.com/article/global-warming-causes-massive-earthquakes/
http://www.nasa.gov/vision/earth/environment/glacier_quakes.html
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn8889-glacial-earthquakes-rock-greenland-ice-sheet.html
Of course it is well known by now that so-called global warming causes everything:
http://www.numberwatch.co.uk/warmlist.htm
And kudos to Anthony Watts for an excellent job of investigative journalism he displayed. Even though correct assumptions could have been easily made, he went through the whole process that a good journalist should always follow.