With all due sympathy to the Japanese and others who have experienced horrors this year, earth quakes aren't caused by climate.



That is arguable if the warming of the earth's core has the affect to encouraging plate activity. But that is a sidebar argument as my point was that there has been a dramatic shift in activity during the year of 2011. Are the shifting of the tectonic plates caused by the warming of the earth's core which is something that could be caused by climate shifting or do earthquake's share a responsive relationship to each other? Those studies are being done as we speak and no one has the definitive answer on that but something is going on...when was the last time earthquakes took place on this kind of large scale on America's eastern sea board from Florida all the way up to NY?

The data alone shows the jump in the distribution of major disasters declared in the United States. Like it or not, there was a massive increase in activity in 2011. Was this the sole responsibility of fossil fuels? Most likely not and there are a whole slew of other things going on. To say this is business as usual is just as much as hiding our heads as blaming everything on carbon fuels.

http://www.fema.gov/news/disaster_totals_annual.fema