clipped from www.celsias.com

I used to think global warming would cause drought, storms, and rising sea levels. This June, scientists realized that global warming is also going to increase global earthquake activity. How? The answer has to do with glacier movement.

What does this have to do with Global Warming? As the glaciers melt, they move faster, so we can expect more and more earthquakes from the Whillans Ice Stream. This increase has been observed in recent years, as glacial earthquakes increased. The increase in glacial earthquakes is bad news for the Greenland ice sheet, whose glaciers are thunderously pounding into the sea. Glaciers are often on, or connected to massive ice sheets like the Greenland sheet.