I was one of the early acceptees of the global warming hypothesis in the mid-80s because even back then all the glaciers were melting, it was recordable, it was reported and you could see it. Wisdom, my friend — use your eyes and ears and mind  rather than just believe the talking heads and wait for their prognostications, which today are often politically motivated.

Most of my friends all poo-poohed this idea but I said "Look at the melting glaciers and some of these islands whose coastlines are going. That's global warming. Why else would glaciers melt and the weather be changing so much?" We even talked about — and this is in the mid-80s mind you, not to be buying coastal properties over the next decades, especially in Caribbean. I kid you not, this is all true and here we are 20 years later that it's finally accepted. Do you see how slow the government and mass opinion moves?

Now the only reason I state this is to make the case I'm not one of those late on the bandwagon, and thus to prepare you for the next question which I have NOT seen answered anywhere. It's a QUESTION, as I don't know the answer but it seems reasonable to me, yet there seems to be a media blackout on this topic….

If the oceans rise, doesn't that put more pressure on the ocean floor? I mean, yes of course the pressure is distributed, but I always watch television shows saying that at so many feet deep, the pressure on our submarine glass (or whatever) is such and such.

Well, now that we're adding an inch or two (or more) of ocean water on TOP of what was already there, doesn't this put even more pressure on the ocean bottom, and doesn't that make it even more unstable…which is thus possibly giving rise to all these increases in earthquakes we seem to be seeing?

In other words, isn't global warming the possible cause behind this increase in ocean earthquakes?

I have not seen this answered elsewhere. I suppose the dismissive answer is that it's all distributed, therefore NO, but that doesn't make sense because not all the ice that is melting was floating on the water to begin with.

Anyway, just pondering…I'm sure there's a science answer, but I haven't seen it.

If I'm right, not only will more and more ocean front property disappear over time as the oceans rise, but we'll see more and more tsunamis and earthquakes due to the added pressure on the oceans crust, … or possibly because of the decreased pressure in places where the weight of ice was holding down a potential geological reaction because of the downward pressure it imposed (and now it's free to move).

I don't know .. if someone has a link to the science behind this, then let me know and I'll post it.