Floods in the Eastern States of Australia... Torrential rain in California...
Flash Floods in Brazil now 83 dead...
Tsunami Warning off the coast of some Japanese Islands due to 6.5 - 7.4 Earthquake...
Snow covering 49 out of 50 states in the US... yep even Hawaii had some snowfall. The snow storms in the US and the UK during the past week have been insane.
Greenland is experiencing higher than normal temperatures, some meteorologists are saying the high pressure over Greenland is where the severe weather we are all having stems from.
We now have a volcano rising in Italy... (well I'm still not convinced this is anything serious...)
There are suggestions that the mass animal deaths are caused by sudden high and low pressure changes as well as sudden sea temperature changes that can impact the weather all across the globe.
I've read a few news articles that suggest that the CIA's climate change team has been keeping an eye on the climate changes due to the ripple effect that has happened in the past six months with regards to severe weather patterns that are out of the norm.
It would be really interesting to see if in 1974 when we had the floods in QLD if there were similar strange weather patterns around the world then. Maybe we should be looking at weather data around the world rather than just what's happening in our back yard...
I hope this isn't upsetting to anyone. It's been playing on my mind and I had to get it out.
The thing is I don't think all this similarities are something we should be screaming and ranting about, no I don't necessarily think the end is nigh, it's probably happened before. But the data has probably not been as easy to cross reference as it is now due to the internet and the availability of media worldwide etc. That doesn't mean I don't think this has to do with climate change, as I'm sure it does. But it will be interesting to see what information comes out about it all.
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we are just a little speck, in the scheme of things. humbling isn't it? we kid ourselves we can control the weather etc. but really. all the technology in the world, if the power goes - we are back to caveman technology to survive. i think the survivalists have a point - re-learning all those basic skills, done without power, would be useful to know. in a disaster, would make life much more bearable.
just this morning, i was wondering about posting (for the flood affected people who have somewhere to live, but nearby shops are disrupted) about maybe buying packets of vegie seeds, a bag of potting mix, getting a styrofoam box, and planting some vegies - so that in a few weeks, months, you would have lettuce etc - for all the people in areas that due to the roads being messed up, supplies of fresh food will be a long time before normal supplies in shops happen again.
i didn't know if i should put it, but i remembered that people in the Great Depression and surviving the food rations in WW2, that's what they did (turn their lawns into vegie patches) in order to survive with better nutrition that they would have otherwise had, survived on non-perishables only.
and also, i would think, when there is devastation around you, to see something growing, can symbolise hope.
I often ponder the cause of all these natural disasters, not the immediate cause but if there is something deeper. Clearly i come up with nothing, or i'd be holding a nobel peace prize or whatever you get for environmental breakthroughs.
What amazes me is that with all this information right before our eyes, some people still continue to deny that climate change even exists. Seriously?!? WTF are these people thinking.
TBH it really does upset me...but not because you've posted it, I've been thinking about it so much lately as well. Our earth is crying out in desperation. It frightens me
Wow Junglemum thats crazy...... I often wonder what all the chemicals we put into the air and water is doing to our earth? I agree that this all is connected and likt Maz said maybe mother earth is resetting itself?
JM yeah I have. Up until this point I thought it was something more sinister... but now the weather patterns and where the disasters are it actually makes sense...
Last edited by Rouge; January 13th, 2011 at 01:36 PM.
I *think* yes its hurting...what annoy's me is that so many of us do our little bit..us the little man, the little spec as you said gigi and yet it feel's like it's doing nothing when we see the news every night.
Bloody Nora Cai. That is just to scarey.
It really does frighten me no end. What is going to be of this earth for our futer generations??? Its so easy to say doent matter we wont be here but thats just a fob off for me.
I had *cough* family relation *cough* MIL *cough* ask me why I bothered keeping my bucket in the kitchen sink to collect the dish water still with all this rain..doenst mean cause it's here today that it will be tomorrow
rogue, i totally agree,
i heard somewhere that the weather patterns repeat themselves every so many years, maybe decades or years later..
i think that its pure coincidence that all this is happening at the same time iykwim?
i think if it was anything extremely serious we wouldnt be getting a break from it ever until it actaully went wrong...
not upsetting to me i just seem to think we are having a bad run atm but it will go back to normal...
i believe in climate change to i try to do my part when i can.. but i do get bothered by the ppl who are in denial because they are damaging it for the rest of us who try to be a solution not the problem... if that makes sense..
my dad has said this my entire life, that as devastating as many natural disasters (more o/s, than in oz)are with loss of life etc, the majority happen in over populated areas. is this mother nature's way of resetting the balance?
Ive always been in awe of our Mother Earth...she gives us life, but takes it away just as easily, and i'm not frighted or upset by it all (well i am for all the people it is affecting.) but i'm more impressed and humbled and ...i cant think of the right word, but feel her power and i'm trying to embrace it and make positive out of it.
in 1974 there were massive floods in DH hometown of Narrandera (west NSW), we have been trying to see if they happened at the same time as the qld floods or if there is any relationship, and what else happened in that year.
EDIT: That map is awesome!! i'm curious as to what that biological hazard is at burranjuck dam, anyone know?!?!
Last edited by ~TT40~; January 13th, 2011 at 03:20 PM.
It's amazing isn't it Rouge. You can really see everything getting worse - I know this isn't in the religious section, and I know it's not what you were saying, but seeing all this happening gives me a small frisson of excitement. Don't get me wrong, I'm devastated for the lives lost and the countries destroyed, but looking at it from a biblical point of view, it has all been foretold. 'For nation will rise against nation and kingdom against kingdom, and there will be food shortages and earthquakes in one place or another. All these things are a beginning of pangs of distress' Matthew 23:7,8
I'll keep it there, but I'm going to start a thread in the religious section for anyone interested
Yeah, i can't decide if i think the weather cycles, or we really are heading for disaster. It's not like this is a first time occurrence for these things. They have happened before, sometimes worse and sometimes many years ago.
I do believe in climate change i think, but i also wonder if it is a weather pattern and the effects of climate change are sometimes exaggerated. (Even if they are i still think doing the best we can to save our resources and planet is the way forward)
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Bloody Nora Cai. That is just to scarey.
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