Reply #15: Do you understand what not reading posts and borderline rudeness are?

[better2know]

yes IR is too slow to cause quakes themselves, obviously at fractions of millimeters a years. see post #13 -and not very clearly in original.

The point I am trying to make -see #13 again- is the "naturally occuring and constant stresses on the crust of the earth" are shifted when hundreds of thousands of cubic miles of water are removed from the poles and spread across the globe.

Huge weight moves -tension rack up in places, and release in others, over thousands of years, and probably trigger earthquakes when the tension gets high enough.