There was a 4.2 earthquake in Arkansas an hour ago.

A couple of hours ago, I noticed that there were a lot of earthquakes in Arkansas today, mostly in the 2.5 to 3.0 range. There had been a number of earthquakes in Arkansas for the last month, including a 4.7 quake that was the strongest since 1969.

It was nothing like this morning's quakes storm, though. Last night at 7:11 a 3.9 and a 2.9 at 8:28, a 3.2 at 11:27 and 2.9 t 12:35. 2.5s at 2:47 and 5:11, 3.0 at 6:11, 2.6s at 8:46 and 9:16, and then the 4.2 at 10:56.

I Kinda Expected

I kinda expected something in the Pacific Northwest. There were the really big quakes down in Chile, some really nasty ones in the Australia/New Zealand/Fiji area, and quite obviously Japan. To complete the Pacific Rim circle, we need something in California or Vancouver, or so.

Maybe, though, the quakes have been at the top of the circle. There is a theory about global warming that says that CO2 is the result of global warming, not the cause.

The oceans are the largest sink of CO2 in the world. When things warm up, the oceans outgas carbon dioxide, and when things cool down, the oceans soak up carbon dioxide from the air. (Rain helps a lot with the latter. CO2 is always going into the ocean, and it's a matter of how much is outgassed, whether CO2 levels in the ocean are going up or down.)

On Global Warming

One of the theories about CO2 says that it's solar flares that have been responsible for global warming, but in the past few months, I've been reading more and more about volcanism.

Think about it. If you were going to heat up something, it would take a LOT of hot air to do that. On the other hand, if you placed it in hot water, the heat transfer would be prety quick if you had a wate bath.

Earthquakes at the bottom of the ocean, resulting in undersea volcanoes, would result in massive amounts of heat going into the ocean water. Nothing would be lost. That would be a LOT more effective than warming something up by leaving it in a greenhouse.

I haven't done any back-of-the-envelope calculations to see if it's more plausible, because there isn't any comparison. It's far more effective.

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