Scientists raise concerns after first-of-its-kind weather event shakes Earth for 9 days: 'We are in uncharted waters'

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

What's happening?

According to The Guardian, a landslide in Greenland triggered a megatsunami that sent seismic waves throughout the world. The landslide was a result of Earth getting warmer. The glacier that originally supported a 1,200-meter mountain peak started to melt and could no longer hold it up. This caused the peak to collapse into the fjord below, resulting in massive waves that led to seismic waves on Earth's surface.

The "extraordinary event" was the first to be recorded in eastern Greenland and destroyed a two-century-old Inuit site. Though no one inhabits the area, this indicates that an event like this hasn't happened in a very long time. It was also a stroke of pure luck that cruise ships and visiting scientists had vacated the area a few weeks before, so nobody was injured.

"We are in uncharted waters scientifically, because we don't really know what a tsunami does to a cruise ship," Kristian Svennevig of the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland told The Guardian.

In fact, it took 68 scientists across 40 institutions in 15 different countries to uncover the mystery of the event by using data collected by various sensors all over the world. Since the discovery, the research has been published in Science.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/scientists-raise-concerns-after-first-of-its-kind-weather-event-shakes-earth-for-9-days-we-are-in-uncharted-waters/ar-AA1rmbzc

[chouchou]

1. "That Al Gore and those Democrats just don't know what they're talking about."

The right-wing Idiots are going to kill us all.

[ArkansasDemocrat1]

19. We could have started to fix it

The carbon dioxide parts per million would begin to decline by now.

Instead, we're gonna get Damnation Alley.

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[SharonAnn]

28. Yes, they are.

[kimbutgar]

2. I wonder if this recent weather events in Florida and North Carolina are a result of this

As a by product? Warmer waters and more gases in the air.

[DENVERPOPS]

5. Moher nature is showing us who is in charge

and punishing those on earth for screwing with HER planet..............

She is becoming somewhat selective in her disasters.....ie Florida, and south eastern Red States....and Texas too......

[Mz Pip]

9. The earth abides

We are irrelevant to nature until our actions lead to consequences that possibly will trigger our own demise.

The Earth Abides is also a pretty good post apocalyptic novel written in 1949.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_Abides

[DENVERPOPS]

10. She knows she can wipe the human race

off the face of the earth, consider it a mistake of hers, and start all over at some point.......she has all the time in the world....

[ArkansasDemocrat1]

21. Only about a billion years

After that, our increasingly hotter Sun will boil the oceans away. Earth, Venus AND Mercury get turned into a charcoal briquettes by our Red Giant sun before it goes Nova. Not supernova, mind you, Sol doesn't have enough mass to be a Super.

We might be able to live on one of the moons orbiting Saturn or Jupiter til then.

[ProfessorGAC]

30. Likely Less

Current estimates suggest a heat sufficient to vaporize all liquid & solid water on earth to be 1.0-1.2 billion years.
It will become uninhabitable at a much lower temperature.
Could easily be half of a billion years. Probably no more than 700 million years.
85°C would kill 99.999% of living microbial life in 3 hours. But, we're talking thosands of millennia. Life has no chance.

[ArkansasDemocrat1]

37. That's been updated since I was in school

Those astronomy classes were 40 years ago.

[Kaleva]

24. It is her goal to wipe out all life on earth

She's come close a few times and will eventually succeed.

[calimary]

34. This! We need her more than she'll EVER need us.

[ReRe]

11. "It's not nice to Fool. Mother. Nature!"

[former9thward]

23. Are you ignoring the wildfires in CA?

[buzzycrumbhunger]

29. Remember when it seemed like half of Canada was on fire, as well?

And as of today, we in FL have another hurricane forming that looks like it’s going to follow the same path Helene just took—actually the THIRD in a row to take the same route to the Big Bend area of the state. (I figure it’s trying to flatten Tallahassee and will keep going until it can wipe out the science-denying goons in our fascist state govt…)

[DENVERPOPS]

39. Don't forget the massive

fires in Alaska.......

[DENVERPOPS]

38. Yup

considering that most of the fires are man made in one way or another. Excepting Lightning of course.....

Arson is man made, but not the only way that man can make the fire.....

[surfered]

3. Scary stuff. I truly fear for the future of mankind on this planet.

I’m reminded of the fermentation process wherein microorganisms (yeasts) consume sugars and excrete alcohol until toxic levels, which kills the microorganisms.

Man and his inventions are excreting too much CO2 and we will suffer the same fate.

[malaise]

14. I fear way more for the planet

We make everything worse

[orwell]

4. Response from el Turdo Orangeo...

..."Drill Baby Drill"...

[keep_left]

8. Yep, and "Global warming is a Chinese hoax".

That's an old Trump favorite.

Just over eight years ago, he tweeted this: “The concept of global warming was created by and for the Chinese in order to make U.S. manufacturing non-competitive.” In 2014, he penned this tweet: “It’s late in July and it is really cold outside in New York. Where the hell is GLOBAL WARMING??? We need some fast! It’s now CLIMATE CHANGE.”

https://democraticunderground.com/100219433986
https://democraticunderground.com/100219433986#post3

By the way, "Where the hell is GLOBAL WARMING???" in Trump's tweet was misspelled (as usual); I have a screenshot. Trump's tweet actually read "Where the hell is GLOBAL WAMING???".

[Martin68]

6. Great article. Thanks for sharing.

[MomInTheCrowd]

7. Best, most comprehensive article I've seen on this.

Thanks!

[AZ8theist]

12. I'll believe in global warming when Merde Lardo is under water....

[PufPuf23]

13. There is no technological fix for humanity and habitat Earth except

for reducing human population, human footprint and human energy use and resource consumption.

Our alleged "solutions" are money and power making opportunities that dig a deeper hole in a war between man and nature that is already lost. As a species and society, humanity lacks the capability, vision and leadership to seriously address the issue.

This is why I interpret the various increasing human conflicts as re-arranging the deck chairs as positioning for coming repeated shocks.

Sorry to be so negative.

[Cirsium]

18. Honest, not negative

Your observations are honest, not negative.

[ArkansasDemocrat1]

22. Nature doesn't care how you vote

[Kaleva]

25. Wars, starvation, disease will take care of the over population problem

[PufPuf23]

26. That was implied by war with nature is already lost and re-arranging deck chairs for coming shocks.

Major reason why more wars over space and resources, wars with never used before arms.

Major human societies of the past collapsed for similar reasons but never with anything close to current human footprint and technology.

[Kaleva]

27. +1

[2naSalit]

15. So when did this happen?

I read the article and I see no mention of when this happened. There were a bunch of other links and an eight minute video on tectonics but I never saw any mention of when this landslide happened.

[Nittersing]

32. According to the comment section of the article, Sept. 2023. nt

[2naSalit]

33. Thanks...

I didn't see any date.

[JHB]

16. "We don't really know what a tsunami does to a cruise ship", but Hollywood does.

[Hekate]

17. KnR

[Cirsium]

20. I am very concerned

Speaking for myself, I am very concerned about the impact of climate change on cruise ships.

[milestogo]

31. "we don't really know what a tsunami does to a cruise ship"

but we imagine its not good for business.

[spanone]

35. We have a major political party that refuses to believe in science.

...and we live in a minority rule 'democracy'.

What could go wrong?

[Cha]

36. Yes we are! And Smart

Caring People notice.

Braindead magats don’t.

[twodogsbarking]

40. I worked with a guy who had worked in the WH while Clinton was President.

Clinton is a smart man for sure but this guy said Gore was the smartest.