The debate around the connection between climate change and earthquakes has been almost as intense as the earthquakes themselves. When professor Bill McGuire released his book “Walking the Giant: How a changing climate triggers earthquakes, tsunamis and volcanoes,” in 2012, it was deemed to be “science fiction,” according to an article in the British national newspaper The Sunday Times by motor journalist and climate skeptic Jeremy Clarkson. However, by looking more closely at the evidence, McGuire’s work begins to gain some credibility.

Another noticeable consequence of climate change is the melting of the ice caps. McGuire’s research suggested that this could also lead to earthquakes. He argued that during the dying days of the last ice age, large ice sheets covering much of our earth melted. They were so dense that the pressure as a whole caused the crust to “bounce back.” If additional ice sheets, like the one covering Greenland, continue to melt due to man-made climate change, it could start more earthquakes, along with tremors and volcanic activities. Andrea Hempel of the University of Hannover’s Geological Institute warned in 2010 that, “future ice loss may trigger earthquakes of intermediate to large magnitude if the crust underneath the modern ice cap contains faults prone to failure.”

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