Earthquakes, Volcanoes and Landslides...Oh My!

All you need to know about the theme of this article is the title: The Earth Fights Back

Unlike most apparently intractable problems, which have a tendency to go away when examined closely and analytically, the climate change predicament just seems to get bigger and scarier the more we learn about it.

Now we discover that not only are the oceans and the atmosphere conspiring against us, bringing baking temperatures, more powerful storms, floods and ever-climbing sea levels, but the crust beneath our feet seems likely to join in too.

Looking back to other periods in our planet's history when the climate was swinging about wildly, most notably during the last ice age, it appears that far more than the weather was affected. The solid earth also became restless, with an increase in volcanic activity, earthquakes, giant submarine landslides and tsunamis. At the rate climate change is accelerating, there is every prospect that we will see a similar response from the planet, heralding not just a warmer future but also a fiery one.

As you can see from the article's title as well as the highlighted passages, not only is the Earth warming, but it's a sentient thinking being capable of "fighting back" against the wascally humans. The Earth knows it's being raped and pillaged by the 6 billion specks of parasitic humanity that infect it, and now [start movie announcer voice] IT'S PAYBACK TIME! [stop movie announcer voice].

I have no problem with a scientific article detailing the types of changes that might occur in a warming earth, but spare the metaphysical nonsense that suggests the earth knows what its doing and has some sort of revenge in mind. It's a big dumb rock circling the sun, and is influenced by that sun far more than anything humans can do to it.