Concentrated Ideas

Temblor in Hawaii, Flooding in New Orleans; is there a pattern here?

Both are US locations, both are worrisome. Does it mean something?

I can make a hypothesis, I know this hypothesis is far fetched, and dubious, because I am worried about environmental degradation, but either the hypothesis is wrong or right.

A warmer ocean surface means higher sea level, and warmer air in the vicinity, this can produce bigger hurricanes, like Katrina. Volcanoes draw their energy from down under, not surface water, but maybe a case can be made that warmer surface can tip forces that were previously balanced, and then we see the big force that was contained underground.

I add this on October 22, 2006. Today's Time magazine gives a different explanation, completely independent of warming on the surface of the Earth. You can read it above with the title, " Hawaii's Earthquake Due to Volcanic Stress".

In any case I am looking for signs of anomalous weather. Maybe they mean something. That volcano in Hawaii had been inactive for thousands of years.