Nice, Wasn't It?

There's a post at Climate Progress about a causal connection that Jeff Masters (Weather Underground) and others have made between Climate Crisis hurricanes and the Haiti earthquake. Though that sounds like overreaching, there's past scientific findings and theory enough to warrant looking into it. Scientists do believe there can be connections between phenomena as disparate as hurricanes (causing landslides, which if in the right spot can accumulate to trigger earthquakes) and hurricanes and volcanoes.

But as often the comments are the most interesting part of the post, as commenters note various possibilities and connections. And it's one of the comments that says it all for me. It was by "catman306" on dec. 21, 2010 at 8:21pm--the first sentence is quoted from a previous comment:

“It is interesting to see how interconnected various earth systems are.” Interconnected in ways we have yet to learn about. (unknown unknowns) That’s why a stable, self-regulating system is precious. Well, we had one. Nice, wasn’t it?

(Allow me to note that one of the frustrating features of Climate Progress is that it does not allow you to directly copy a single comment. Any attempt leads to the whole post and all the comments being copied. But I was impressed by this one enough to copy it out by hand...)