Is this the end??

[The Mystery Machine]

From all that I've read, my personal opinion is this. Either man IS causing global warming, OR the earth is warming on it's own, but man is adding to it and making it worse (like if your house is on fire and you add gasoline).

Even if gobal warming is a total myth, all the polution we cause still isn't a good thing, we are poisoning the Earth no matter how you look at it.

All that said, I personally don't feel that man has caused the upswing in huricanes. It certainly hasn't helped, but I don't think it is a direct cause.

Global warming is not a myth but a FACT. There is no debate among the science community. It has been known for many years. Politicians "pretend" there is a "debate". There is none.
As a country we seem to not embrace the precautions we need to take until after the disasters.
But I suppose not ever experiencing them (until now), you cannot "see".

 

[live4christp1]

Every day that passes is one more day closer to the end. Is it the next 10 years, the next 50, the 100, the next 1,000? I don't know. Jesus said to be ready because He will come like a thief in the night. For we know not the hour or the day.


FUTURE GENERATIONS - 4HIM

The signs are obvious, they are everywhere
All that we hear about is the gloom and despair
Too many would be prophets sayin’
>It’s the end of it all<
‘Cause mother earth can’t take much more
The hammer’s gonna fall

So nature has its needs, that’s a lesson learned
But it appears to me there are greater concerns
‘Cause we can save the planet
Thinkin’ we will somehow survive
But father time is calling us
To save somebody’s life,
so

CHORUS:
I won’t bend and I won’t break
I won’t water down my faith
I won’t compromise in a world of desperation
What has been I cannot change
But for tomorrow and today
I must be a light for future generations

If we could find a way to preserve our faith
So those who follow us
See the price that was paid
Then maybe when they question
What it’s gonna take to survive
They’ll find the strength to carry on
In what we leave behind

CHORUS

Lookin’ in the eyes of the children
Knowing that tomorrow is at stake
When the choice is up to them
Will they have the strength to say

We won’t bend and we won’t break
we won’t water down our faith
We won’t compromise in a world of desperation
What has been we cannot change
But for tomorrow and today
We must be a light for future generations

REPEAT

 

[MinnieM3]

I don't think it's the end, but all this has given me pause. The elderly evacuee bus on fire is just about the saddest thing I've ever heard. Makes you wonder.

 

[vettechick99]

The Worst Natural Disasters:

http://www.scaruffi.com/politics/disaster.html

Athens, 430 B.C.: Typhus epidemic
Pompei, 79: Volcanic eruption
Costantinopole, 542: Bubonic plague
Beirut, Lebanon, 551: earthquake and tsunami (tens of thousands dead)
Japan, 1181: famine (100,000 dead)
Holland, 1228: sea flood (100,000 dead)
Europe and Asia, 1346-52: Bubonic plague or "black death" (one third of the European population dead plus millions in Asia and North Africa for a total of 25 million)
Shensi, China, 1556: earthquake (800,000 dead)
Napoli, Italy, 1631: Mt Vesuvius erupts (3,000 dead)
Havana, 1648: Yellow fever epidemic
Sevilla, Spain, 1649: Plague (80,000 dead)
Turkey, 1668: earthquake (8,000 dead)
Lisbon, 1755: earthquake and tsunami (30,000 dead)
Bengal (India), 1769: famine (ten million dead)
Northamerica, 1775-82: Smallpox (130,000 dead)
Iran, 1780: earthquake (200,000 dead)
Philadelphia, 1793: Yellow fever epidemic (5,000 dead)
Sumbawa, Indonesia, 1815: Mt Tambora erupts (90,000 dead)
Japan, 1826: Tsunami (27,000 dead)
Cairo, 1831: Cholera epidemic, which spreads to London
London and Paris, 1832: Cholera epidemic (25,000 dead)
Ireland, 1845: famine (one million dead)
Mapoli, Italy, 1857: earthquake (11,000 dead)
France, 1870-71: Smallpox (500,000 dead)
Indonesia, 1883: Tsunami (36,000 dead)
Huayan Kou, China, 1887: Yang-tse Kiang flooding (possibly one million dead)
Mino-owari, Japan, 1891: earthquake (7,000 dead)
Japan, 1896: Tsunami (27,000 dead)
India, 1897: earthquake (1,500 dead)
Galveston, 1900: Hurricane (8000 dead)
San Francisco, 1906: earthquake and fire (3,000 dead)
Colombia, 1906: earthquake (1,000 dead)
Chile, 1906: earthquake (20,000 dead)
Messina, Italy, 1908: 7.5 earthquake (70,000 dead)
Mexico City, 1911: earthquake
Worldwide, 1918: Influenza pandemic (25-100 million dead)
Gansu, China, 1920: 8.6 earthquake (200,000 dead)
Yokohama, Japan, 1923: 8.3 earthquake (143,000 dead)
Nanshan, China, 1927: 8.3 earthquake (200,000 dead)
Florida, USA, 1928: Hurricane (1800 dead)
Gansu, China, 1932: 7.6 earthquake (70,000 dead)
Sanriku, Japan, 1933: 8.4 earthquake (3,000 dead)
Bihar, India, 1934: 8.1 earthquake (10,700 dead)
Quetta, Pakistan, 1935: 7.5 earthquake (30,000 dead)
New York, USA, 1938: Rains (600 dead)
Erzincan, Turkey, 1939: 7.8 earthquake (33,000 dead)
Tonankai, Japan, 1944: 8.1 earthquake (1,200 dead)
Nankaido, Japan, 1946: earthquake (1,330 dead)
Ashgabat, Turkmenistan, 1948: earthquake (100,000 dead)
Assam, India, 1950: earthquake (1,526 dead)
Holland, 1953: Sea flood (1,794 dead)
Iran, 1953: Rain flood (10,000 dead)
Louisiana, USA, 1957: Hurricane (400 dead)
Worldwide, 1957: Influenza pandemic (about four million dead)
China, 1960: Famine (20 million dead)
Morocco, 1960: earthquake (10,000 dead)
Chile, 1960: 9.5 earthquake (5,700 dead)
Mt Huascaran, Peru, 1962: Volcano eruption (3,000)
Worldwide, 1968: Influenza pandemic (about 750,000 dead)
North Peru, 1970: 7.8 earthquake (66,000 dead)
Bangladesh, 1970: Sea flood (200-500,000 dead)
Vietnam, 1971: Red River flood (100,000 dead)
Nicaragua, 1972: earthquake flood (10,000 dead)
Bangladesh, 1974: floods (28,000 dead)
Ethiopia, 1974: famine (200,000 dead)
Haicheng, China, 1975: 7.0 earthquake (10,000 dead)
Tangshan, China, 1976: 8.0 earthquake (750,000 dead)
Guatemala, 1976: earthquake (23,000 dead)
Andhra Pradesh, India, 1977: cyclone (10,000 dead)
Mexico, 1982: volcanic eruption (1,800 dead)
Yemen, 1982: earthquake (3,000 dead)
Bhopal, India, 1984: Chemical pollution (3,800 dead)
Ethiopia, 1984: Famine (900,000 dead)
Ciudad de Mexico, 1985: 8.1 earthquake (9,500 dead)
Armenia, 1988: earthquake (55,000 dead)
Colombia, 1985: eruption of Nevado del Ruiz (23,000 dead)
Bangladesh, 1988: Monsoon flood (1,300 dead)
Gilan and Zanjan, Iran, 1990: 7.7 earthquake (35,000 dead)
Bangladesh, 1991: tsunami (138,000 dead)
Latur, India, 1993: earthquake (22,000 dead)
Kobe, Japan, 1995: earthquake (5,500 dead)
Chicago, USA, 1995: heatwave (739 dead)
North Korea, 1995-98: Famine and floods (3.5 million dead)
West Africa, 1996: meningitis outbreak (25,000 dead)
Tashkent, Uzbekistan, 1996: earthquake (??,000 dead)
Papua New Guinea, 1998: Tsunami (2,200 dead)
Yangtze Kiang, China, 1998: flooding (3,600 dead)
Central America, 1998: Hurricane Mitch and floods (12,000 dead)
Colombia, 1999: earthquake (1,185 dead)
Turkey, 1999: earthquake (17,000 dead)
Taiwan, 1999: 7.6 earthquake (2,400 dead)
Orissa, India, 1999: Cyclone (7,600 dead)
Venezuela, 1999: Floods (20,000 dead)
Gujarat, India, 2001: earthquake (20,000 dead)
El Salvador, 2001: earthquake (850 dead)
Afghanistan, 2002: earthquake (2,500 dead)
Algeria, 2003: earthquake (2,266 dead)
Andhra Pradesh, India, 2003: Heat wave (1,300 dead)
France, Spain and Italy, 2003: Heat wave (50,000 dead)
Bam, Iran, 2003: earthquake (26,300 dead)
Al-Hoceima, Morocco, 2004: earthquake (571 dead)
Haiti and Dominican Republic, 2004: rains (2,400 dead)
Philippines, 2004: typhoon (1,000 dead)
China, 2004: floods (1,300 dead)
Southeast Asia, 2004: tsunamis caused by 9.0 earthquake (111,000 dead in Indonesia, 31,000 in Sri Lanka, 10,700 in India, 5,400 in Thailand, 68 in Malaysia, 82 in the Maldives, 300 in Myanmar and 150 in Somalia, including 1,500 Scandinavian tourists, and dozens of Germans, Italians, Dutch, etc)
Zarand, Iran, 2005: earthquake (500 dead)
Nias, Indonesia, 2005: 8.7 earthquake (1000 dead)
Mumbai, India, 2005: monsoon (400 dead)
Niger, 2005: famine (? dead)
China, 2005: floods (567 dead)
Louisiana and Mississippi, USA, 2005: hurricane (1,037 dead)

So, um...no.

 

[cynsaun]

I've got the handbasket gassed up and ready to go.

I call shotgun!

 

[Ted and Holly]

Global warming is not a myth but a FACT. There is no debate among the science community. It has been known for many years. Politicians "pretend" there is a "debate". There is none.
As a country we seem to not embrace the precautions we need to take until after the disasters.
But I suppose not ever experiencing them (until now), you cannot "see".

But it is NOT a FACT that GLOBAL WARMING is causing STRONGER hurricanes.

 

[BalooTheBear]

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[Dan Murphy]

We'll make it through, Angela. Hoping you guys feel better soon, colds and flu are a pain.

 

[chris1gill]

Bulletin!!!

World Ends At 10. News At 11.

VIRGO, I LOVE that!!!

 

[Disney Doll]

I don't think it's the end of the world. I think weather goes in cycles.

I can remember as a kid we used to get tons of snow. I mean, the snow would be piled so high that my DB & I would build tunnels & caves in it. It would be freezing cold too. I also remember in the summer having thunder storms that would turn the sky green and the thunder would be shaking the house.

So I think that we have ended up in a bad weather cycle.

 

['Canes Fan]

the atlantic is up a degree which actually makes a big difference. more storms can begin. once they do cross in to the gulf, they energize. our water temp are in the high 80's, perfectly normal. the good news is the wind shear that wasn't around last year is back.

perfectly natural stuff. what amazes me is the amount of natural and man-made devastation the country has been through the last 5 years, but we keep bouncing back.