Scientific illiteracy on display
As Mount Kilauea, one of the world's most active volcanoes, kicked into high gear Thursday with an explosive eruption, scientists are keeping an eye on a Canadian volcano that is currently unstable.
Glyn Williams-Jones points to climate change and the disappearance of glaciers for why Mount Meager, which is 160 km northwest of Vancouver, and 60 km west of Pemberton, is in the state that it is now.
"We've got this big monster volcano. It's about two million years old and it's been ticking along, changing over that time, but we know that there's volcanic gas coming through the ice," Williams-Jones, co-director of the Centre for Natural Hazards Research, told The Current's guest host Laura Lynch.
In 2010, Mount Meager caused the largest landslide in Canadian history, dumping 53 million cubic metres of mud and rocks into the nearby area.
It eclipsed the previous Canadian record set in 1965, when 47 million cubic metres of rock came down the Cascade Mountains near Hope, B.C.
http://www.cbc.ca/radio/thecurrent/...s-climate-change-could-wake-them-up-1.4668592
My High School Geography education debunk "global warming causing volcancoes" crap
As Mount Kilauea, one of the world's most active volcanoes, kicked into high gear Thursday with an explosive eruption, scientists are keeping an eye on a Canadian volcano that is currently unstable.
Glyn Williams-Jones points to climate change and the disappearance of glaciers for why Mount Meager, which is 160 km northwest of Vancouver, and 60 km west of Pemberton, is in the state that it is now.
"We've got this big monster volcano. It's about two million years old and it's been ticking along, changing over that time, but we know that there's volcanic gas coming through the ice," Williams-Jones, co-director of the Centre for Natural Hazards Research, told The Current's guest host Laura Lynch.
In 2010, Mount Meager caused the largest landslide in Canadian history, dumping 53 million cubic metres of mud and rocks into the nearby area.
It eclipsed the previous Canadian record set in 1965, when 47 million cubic metres of rock came down the Cascade Mountains near Hope, B.C.
http://www.cbc.ca/radio/thecurrent/...s-climate-change-could-wake-them-up-1.4668592
My High School Geography education debunk "global warming causing volcancoes" crap
