The cause of Tsunami is earth’s melting of permafrost in artic circle due to global warming: Indian Scientists

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The cause of Tsunami is earth’s melting of permafrost in artic circle
due to global warming: Indian Scientists – many more global landslides
and earthquakes possible
Dr. Sandhya Mukherjee, Special Correspondent
January 04, 2005


The collapse of land when permafrost thaws

Rising temperatures in the Arctic are melting the permafrost, causing
it to release greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. About 14 per cent
of the world's carbon is stored in the permafrost of Arctic lands.
Permafrost, which is a solid structure of frozen soil and on which can
be used to build homes and other buildings, can, with rising
temperatures, turn into a soft material causing subsidence and damage
to buildings and structures. But worse yet is if, as a positive
feedback, it loses its characteristic as a carbon sink and begins
leaking carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. This is a typical effect of
global warming.

According to some Indian scientists, the melting of permafrost has far
reaching effects on earth’s crust. The tectonic plates are susceptible
to forces on different parts of the world including the Artic and
Antarctic regions. The new theory says if the crust of the earth is
imbalanced due to tremendous effect of global warming and melting of
permafrost.




The ice experiences a cyclical ice ages and warm time. We are in the
warm cycle. It has been observed, that during the receding ice ages in
the past which means natural warming, ocean currents, Artic and
Antarctic crusts’ imbalances, the tectonic movements increase. Worse is
the fact that the tectonic movements increase in thrust and violent
characteristics. It is at this time world experience 9 and above
Richter scale earthquakes – many of them all over the world in a short
period of time.

According to these scientists we may be experiencing similar
phenomenon where all on a sudden tectonic movements devastate the
world.

The tsunami that happened was caused by an earthquake along a 600 mile
fault line that got displaced. That is not common. It really never
happened in recent history of the world.

Interestingly, the Tsunami traveled westwards at 500 miles per hour
and did not traverse in the south with that kind of high velocity.
According to the scientific analysts, that is another sign that this
was caused by melting of permafrost in the Artic.



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