# Eyjafjallajökull eruption negates 5 years of CO2 emission controls?

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**Created:** [June 5, 2010, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eyjafjallajokull-eruption-negates-5-years-of-co2-emission-controls/542084 "2010-06-05T19:33:52Z")\
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**Post date:** [June 5, 2010, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eyjafjallajokull-eruption-negates-5-years-of-co2-emission-controls/542084/11 "2010-06-05T22:06:43Z")

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> [@Simplicio](#):
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> False, [See here](http://www.tnr.com/blog/the-vine/will-eyjafjallajokull-cool-the-planet)

A comment there said that a recent study published in _Nature_ indicates that climate may have an effect on seismology. :dubious: I am not a subscriber, so I can’t read the article myself.

There’s an old thread on [‘earthquake weather’](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=96608). The idea is that there is such a thing, and the response is overwhelmingly that it’s bunk. However:

> [@Earthquake weather](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/earthquake-weather/90972/20):
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> I’d never heard about “earthquake weather” and as someone who used to teach a seismology class I’m doing my best to keep a straight face.
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> Two concepts were mentioned:
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> Earthquakes occur as a rusult of a certain type of weather - laughable.
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> Earthquakes might cause subtle changes in the weather - worth considering.
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> Certainly faint diagnostic attributes are present since yes, some animals apparently act quite differently prior to a quake. Burrowing animals often will refuse to go underground. Fish will jump out of the water. Dogs, cats and horses appear skiddish.
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> Something’s going on but it’s on a level too faint for we as humans to discern.

I felt I-don’t-know-how-many earthquakes when I lived in SoCal. I was asleep for Northridge (it’s the only one that made me get out of bed – it knocked down some shelves and the TV), but as I recall the weather was normal. But there were two occasions when the weather felt ‘weird’. A little warmer than it should have been, even though SoCal is usually warm. And it just felt… weird. ‘Earthquake weather’? The plate bulging a little and increasing the air pressure slightly? AFAIK, it’s never been proved. And what about all of the other earthquakes, when the weather felt normal?

As **lieu** wrote, ‘it’s worth considering’. But I wouldn’t be at all surprised to find zero correlation. The _Nature_ article mentioned in the comment sounds impossible. How could climate possibly affect seismic activity? If anyone can read the article, can you give a summary?

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