[extropy-chat] sri lanka tragedy a result of global warming?

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Hello: 

Exxon/Mobil has been removing huge quantities 
of natural gas from Aceh.  (Reputed to be the 
third of the total worldwide production for LNG). 

So the tsunami in part may have been induced 
by mineral extraction in the area.  

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=16775 

Note the coast line shift etc.  If Exxon/Mobil were 
implicated for blame in the case of this tsunami 
then the ramifications to offshore extraction of 
petroleum and natural gas are serious. 

That is a big if. 

As for litigation.  Well I think the price of 
that companies stock could get pressured 
if people start thinking in that way. 

On Sun, 2 Jan 2005 12:13:38 -0800, spike <spike66 at comcast.net> wrote:

> Any good trial lawyer knows that the key to getting
> the client a good settlement is in finding deep-pockets
> responsible.  So we must somehow determine that the earthquake
> that caused the tsunami was a result of global warming,
> which is a result of SUVs, not god.  If we have low
> standards for proof, how can we imagine rising global
> temperatures having caused the Sri Lankan tragedy?  How
> about: higher temperatures caused the seismic plates
> to expand, thus causing them to slip against each other.
> Or: rising global temperatures changed the migration paths
> of local birds, resulting in their landing in an unaccustomed
> location, changing the loading pattern on the tectonic plate,
> My father in law has suggested
> that pumping all that oil out of the ground allowed the earth
> to collapse into the resulting cavities. spike


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