Tag: Milankovitch cycles

Can Big Earthquakes Disrupt World Weather?

by | 4.28.2011 at 12:59pm | 1 Comment
Candle-lit Astronomer

The recent earthquake in Japan shifted the earth’s axis by half a foot. You may be wondering if that’s enough to change earth’s weather. No, not really, says Jerry McManus, a climate scientist at Columbia’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory. Earthquakes unleash a tremendous amount of energy, but not enough to upset the energy balance of earth’s [...]