Saturday, January 12, 2013

The Link Between Global Warming, Sea Levels And Volcanoes

Forbes: Rising seas pose some of the biggest emerging challenges to the world, as coastal urban areas face higher water and dangerous storms, protected only by weak, sometimes crumbling 20th-century flood defenses. But sea level rise, largely the result of manmade climate change, may have effects that go far beyond catastrophic flooding: a new paper shows how higher water may lead to increased volcanic activity. Let's get this out of the way: this isn't going to cause any immediate problems. Governments...

URL: http://www.forbes.com/sites/johnmcquaid/2013/01/09/the-link-between-global-warming-sea-levels-and-volcanoes/?ss=business:energy
Enclosure: http://blogs-images.forbes.com/johnmcquaid/files/2013/01/210x3002.jpg

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