In Waking the Giant: How a changing climate triggers earthquakes, tsunamis, and volcanoes, geologist Bill McGuire warns we may be waking primordial monsters
IN 2006, London geologist Bill McGuire argued in New Scientist that global warming would trigger epidemics of volcanic eruptions, earthquakes and tsunamis. Now he’s written the book. The story is even scarier writ large.
The world as McGuire sees it in Waking the Giant sometimes seems more ancient myth than modern science. It is one where subterranean events are intimately linked to those above ground, and we are awakening primordial monsters.
There is now abundant evidence that…
