*Rising sea levels resulting in extreme coastal erosion in Arctic Alaska & Canada.
*Altered patterns of agriculture due to severe drought in some areas & extreme flooding in others.
*Increased severe storm events will become commonplace.
*Enduring heat waves.
*Atlantic tropical storm & hurricane increased destructive potential.
*The expansion of the range of tropical diseases.
We are seeing these effects world wide.
2008 has already set new records in severe weather in the U.S. Memorable severe weather season
Here's a look at 2007 events.
(Click on map to enlarge)
Here's a look back at 2006
Map of 2006 Extremes
There is no question about it, planet Earth has entered a warming cycle. A cycle that reoccurs every so often. The Mayans were top notch astrologers. I believe their knowledge in these matters most certainly came from an angel. Namely Kukulcan. None the less, their calendar is on the mark concerning planetary alignments and solar cycles. See the video.
This cosmic event produces changes in the Sun's magnetic field, which will cause the Sun to shine more intensely, producing what are known as 'solar flares' as well as displacement in the Earths rotation, and because of this, these catastrophes will be common as we move ever closer.
This is exactly what our Bible predicts for the end times.
2007 a Year of Weather Records in U.S.
(distress of nations, with perplexity)
EU: Climate change will transform the face of the continent
By Michael McCarthy and Stephen Castle
10 January 2007
Europe, the richest and most fertile continent and the model for the modern world, will be devastated by climate change, the European Union predicts.
The ecosystems that have underpinned all European societies from Ancient Greece and Rome to present-day Britain and France, and which helped European civilization gain global pre-eminence, will be disabled by remorselessly rising temperatures, EU scientists forecast in a remarkable report which is as ominous as it is detailed.
Much of the continent's age-old fertility, which gave the world the vine and the olive and now produces mountains of grain and dairy products, will not survive the climate change forecast for the coming century, the scientists say, and its wildlife will be devastated.
Jesus' own words, leave no doubt that we are living at the very threshold of cataclysmic change. We're told to watch for these signs of the times:
Luke 21:25And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring; 26Men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken. Strong's complete dictionary of Bible words defines "distress" as calamity, and "perplexity" as - state of quandary, meaning - to have no way out, to be at a loss (mentally):- (stand in) doubt, to be perplexed.
The more we read about the causes being proclaimed today, the more obvious it is that they're using this warming cycle to both advance their one-world agenda and to raise money for their own personal agendas. It's a "follow the money" kind of thing. Indeed, just three weeks after the U.N. pushed up international fears over global warming, a panel of 18 scientists from 11 countries has now reported to the U.N. that the only thing that can stop catastrophic climate change is a global tax – on greenhouse gas emissions. Scientist: 'Global warming' scheme to push global tax
1Timothy 6:20O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called:
George Taylor of the Oregon Climate Service, Oregon State University says other planets in our solar system have expanding and contracting ice caps too. Skeptics point out, those worlds have no people as far as we know – certainly no gas-guzzling muscle cars and trucks. Antarctica and Greenland at times have been warm and green before humankind invented machines, indicating that this is just a natural cycle.
Recently, NASA issued a report that Mars is exhibiting the exact same warming trends as planet Earth. NASA's scientists say that the surface of Mars has warmed by about 1 degree Fahrenheit since the 1970s – almost the same rise in temperature levels as on planet Earth.
NASA used heat maps of the Martian surface from the 1970s Viking mission and compared them with maps from the 1990s Mars Global Surveyor project, which marked changes in temperature on the Red Planet. On Mars, NASA says, it is because of the wildly fluctuating "solar activity" that commenced at the turn of the 21st century.
Two different planets in the same solar system, experiencing identical climate changes. Not because of human activity, but because of "solar activity".
Sizzling study concludes: Global warming 'hot air'
Climate change is merely part of a natural cycle.
Are sunspots prime suspects in global warming?
No kidding! Climate change spreads to Jupiter, Mars
2007 Global Temperatures
The global annual temperature for combined land and ocean surfaces for 2007 is expected to be near 58.0°F and would be the fifth warmest since records began in 1880. Some of the largest and most widespread warm anomalies occurred from eastern Europe to central Asia.
Including 2007, seven of the eight warmest years on record have occurred since 2001 and the 10 warmest years have all occurred since 1997. The global average surface temperature has risen between 0.6°C and 0.7°C since the start of the twentieth century, and the rate of increase since 1976 has been approximately three times faster than the century-scale trend.
The greatest warming has taken place in high latitude regions of the Northern Hemisphere. Anomalous warmth in 2007 contributed to the lowest Arctic sea ice extent since satellite records began in 1979, surpassing the previous record low set in 2005 by a remarkable 23 percent. According to the National Snow and Ice Data Center, this is part of a continuing trend in end-of-summer Arctic sea ice extent reductions of approximately 10 percent per decade since 1979.
This extreme solar activity is going to continue, and will increase to the point that no human can survive unless God intervenes.
Mark 13:19For in those days shall be affliction, such as was not from the beginning of the creation which God created unto this time, neither shall be.20And except that the Lord had shortened those days, no flesh should be saved: but for the elect’s sake, whom he hath chosen, he hath shortened the days.
It's only going to get hotter!
So at this point in time, it may begin to get dark around noon, avoiding the real scorching heat of the day.
Does this sound impossible?
It's not a problem for God. Amos 8:9And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord GOD, that I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the clear day: This is for Israel's sake. It will be for the 144,000 of the 12 Tribes that remain into tribulation.
Rev. 6:3Saying, Hurt not the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees, till we have sealed the servants of our God in their foreheads. 4And I heard the number of them which were sealed: and there were sealed an hundred and forty and four thousand of all the tribes of the children of Israel.
Toward the latter part of tribulation God really turns up the heat.
Revelation 16:8And the fourth angel poured out his vial upon the sun; and power was given unto him to scorch men with fire. 9And men were scorched with great heat, and blasphemed the name of God, which hath power over these plagues: and they repented not to give him glory.
God has complete control over the sun, moon and earth.
Joshua 10:12Then spake Joshua to the LORD in the day when the LORD delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel, and he said in the sight of Israel, Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon; and thou, Moon, in the valley of Ajalon. 13And the sun stood still, and the moon stayed, until the people had avenged themselves upon their enemies. Is not this written in the book of Jasher? So the sun stood still in the midst of heaven, and hasted not to go down about a whole day.
2Kings 20:9And Isaiah said, This sign shalt thou have of the LORD, that the LORD will do the thing that he hath spoken: shall the shadow go forward ten degrees, or go back ten degrees? 10And Hezekiah answered, It is a light thing for the shadow to go down ten degrees: nay, but let the shadow return backward ten degrees. 11And Isaiah the prophet cried unto the LORD: and he brought the shadow ten degrees backward, by which it had gone down in the dial of Ahaz.
2Peter 3:7...the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.
If these global environmental activists would just study a Bible, they would know exactly what's going on with the Earth and that there's no way to turn it off. What they should be running around telling everyone is that the Day of the Lord is about to come upon us.
Jesus predicted such fearful signs just before His return. He said they would be like birth pangs - increasing in frequency and intensity as the time of the end drew near.
Matthew 24:7For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places. 8All these are the beginning of sorrows.
One hardly needs to be a Bible scholar or student of prophecy to see these signs in our world today. The evidence is all around us.
Freak tornadoes rake Midwest Arkansas also hit by unseasonable weather; Indiana sees flooding
January 8, 2008 Associated Press
WHEATLAND, Wis. - A line of thunderstorms fed by warm weather continued spinning off unusual January tornadoes Tuesday, killing a man in Arkansas and carrying a cow close to a mile. The tornadoes developed as temperatures rose to record highs across wide areas of the country. Tornadoes were reported or suspected Monday in southwest Missouri, southeastern Wisconsin, Arkansas, Illinois (the first January tornado reported in Illinois since January 25, 1950.) and Oklahoma. Two people were killed in Missouri. 60 homes hit in Wisconsin town "I have never seen damage like this in the summertime when we have potential for tornadoes," Kenosha County Sheriff David Beth said. "To see something like this in January is mind-boggling to me." Kenosha County Circuit Judge Bruce Schroeder, presiding over opening testimony in a murder trial, said he couldn't believe it when a deputy said the courtroom had to be evacuated because of a tornado warning. "It's a first," he said while waiting with 300 people in the basement. "I've actually had warnings occur during jury trials before and frankly I just ignored them. But not in January." About 15 miles away in Harvard, Ill., a suspected tornado derailed one locomotive and 12 freight cars. The only other recorded January tornado in Wisconsin was in 1967 the National Weather Service said. Meteorologists said the unusual weather was the result of warm, moist air moving from the south. It brought temperatures nearly to 70 degrees on Sunday and Monday. Temperatures hit record highs Monday at 138 cities across the Plains and Midwest, the weather service said.
More & more tornadoes. There were 368 documented tornadoes in the U.S. in January and February of this year, shattering the previous record of 243 over that two-month period, set in 1999. February's total of 232 tornadoes also shattered previous records.
The following is a sampling of the severe weather reports from Jan 10 2008.
In Vancouver, Wash., a rare tornado touched down in a residential area, downing power lines, uprooting trees and tossing shopping carts into cars.
Nearly 20 tornadoes were sighted, while the strongest thunderstorms also produced damaging winds, pounding hail and torrential rain.
A tornado destroyed an elementary school's gym and damaged several homes and school buses in Caledonia, Miss.
In Weir, Miss., a tornado heavily damaged a dairy barn and destroyed a home. Three people sustained injuries, as well as 300 cows. Ten of the cows were killed.
A tornado downed numerous trees, damaged several cars in Vernon, Ala.
A tornado caused substantial damage in southeastern Holmes County, Miss.
Baseball-sized hail pounded Ridgeland, Miss., while quarter-sized hail slammed Ellisville, Miss.
Motorists had to endure golf ball-sized hail near Madison, Miss.
Golf ball-sized hail pounded an area southwest of Hohenwald, Tenn.
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First snow for 100 years falls on Baghdad
Jan 11, 2008
Light snow fell in Baghdad in what weather officials said was the first time in about a 100 years.
Rare snowfalls were also recorded in the west and centre of Iraq, plunging temperatures to zero degrees Centigrade (32 degrees Fahrenheit) and even colder, an official said. The director of the meteorology department, Dawood Shakir, told AFP that climate change was possibly to blame for the unusual event.
It's very rare, he said. Baghdad has never seen snow falling in living memory. These snowfalls are linked to the climate change that is happening everywhere.
We are finding some places in the world which are warm and are supposed to be cold.
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Ferocious winter tornado system
Feb 5, 2008
Atkins, Ark.
"The wrath of God is the only way I can describe it," Gov. Phil Bredesen of Tennessee said after surveying the damage by helicopter. "I'm used to seeing roofs off houses; houses blown over. These houses were down to their foundations, stripped clean."
Much of the havoc was wreaked by rare "long-track" tornadoes, which stay on the ground for distances of 30 to 50 miles. One tornado in Arkansas seems to have burned a path through five counties, said Renee Preslar, the public education coordinator for the Arkansas Division of Emergency Management.
"Normally, tornadoes touch down and they're on the ground for twenty minutes and they pop back up," Preslar said. "There's no signs yet of this having ever come off the ground."
The deadliest such storms in nine years.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------The National Weather Service says at least 15 tornadoes struck South Carolina
March 15, 2008 ELGIN, S.C. (AP)
Those twisters were rated EF-3, with winds up to 165 miles per hour. Most of the rest were considered weaker tornadoes, with winds under 110 miles per hour.
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March 15, 2008
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Suffolk, Va. April 28 2008 One twister cut a zigzagging path 25 miles long through
residential areas, obliterating some homes in sprays of splintered lumber. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Gladstone, Mo. 
May 2, 2008.
Severe
thunderstorms with straight line winds damaged over 200 homes and businesses. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- May 2, 2008,
near Damascus, Ark. 25
tornadoes cut through stretches of Oklahoma, Arkansas, eastern Kansas
and western Missouri. Arkansas has been plagued by severe weather this year. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Myanmar cyclone May 3, 2008 YANGON, Myanmar - Asia's deadliest storm since 1991.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tornadoes reported in Missouri, Okla., Ga. May 10, 2008 Kansas City, Mo.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Britain enjoying the hottest May since 1772 May 13, 2008 The average temperature from
May 1 to 10 was the highest ever noted (81.5
F (27.5 C) since meteorologists first started gathering
precise daily data in 1772. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Colorado inspects damage from massive twister May 22, 2008 Windsor, Colo. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Violent storms in Iowa and Minnesota May 25, 2008 "It's been a long time since we've had those kinds
of injuries and deaths reported." Parts of Parkersburg—particularly
the town's south side—were reduced to rubble. The national weather service now confirms the
twister kicked winds up to 205 miles per hour, considered an EF5. Hugo, Minn. The national weather service now confirms it was a
twister with winds between 136 and 165 miles per hour, considered an EF3. About 100 people have been killed by U.S. twisters
so far this year, the worst toll in a decade, according to the weather service,
and the danger has not passed yet. Tornado season typically peaks in the spring
and early summer, then again in the late fall. 2008 is on track to break the
U.S. record for the number of twisters in a year, according to the National
Weather Service. Also, this year's storms seem to be unusually powerful. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- We all remember
Greensburg, Kan.
May 4, 2007
The tornado’s wind was estimated to have reached
205 mph as it carved a track 1.7 miles wide and 22 miles long. The F5 tornado,
was the most powerful to hit the U.S. in eight years.
(Again May 25, 2008) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
(AP Photo/Orlin
Wagner)
(AP Photo/Mike Wintroath)
Extreme
Weather Slideshow (by MSNBC.MSN.COM
The warming seen thus far is already leaving its mark with changes in ecosystems.
Are the dead porpoises on Scottish beaches more evidence of global warming?
Future warming is expected to intensify these trends we are seeing, and result
in other serious impacts, such as, increased evaporation which will reduce the
effectiveness of reservoirs.......
No Backup if Atlanta's Faucets Run Dry
An increase in extreme flooding. Larger amounts of rain falls
quickly on hardened ground unable to absorb it - leading to flash floods instead
of a replenishment of soil moisture or groundwater levels.
The North Atlantic seems to be getting stormier also. With average wave heights
on the increase, according to scientists.
Increased wave heights is very bad news for coastal residents, sailors, fishing
vessels and offshore oil drilling platforms -- all of which face much greater
destructiveness if the new data is correct. One British researcher claims to
have documented a 25 percent increase in wave heights over the last 25 years.
In the past few years several studies have demonstrated that since 1970 the
hurricanes that form in the North Atlantic and North Pacific Oceans are more
likely to become major hurricanes, on the order of Category Three or greater.
Research has not shown, however, that warming is
causing an increase in the overall number of hurricanes.
Some scientists
link the trend toward more intense storms to the warming of sea surface temperatures,
since hurricanes derive their energy from warm water. That raises the troubling
possibility that there will be more intense hurricanes and fewer weaker storms
in the coming years if ocean temperatures continue to increase.
(the sea and the waves roaring)
*Hurricanes were thought to be an entirely north Atlantic phenomenon. In
April 2004, the first Atlantic hurricane to form south of the Equator hit Brazil
with 40 m/s (144 km/h) winds; monitoring systems may have to be extended 1000
miles further south. Is it just better news coverage, or has there really
been an increase in natural disasters with these changing weather patterns?
Well, in the 37 years prior to 1991, there was not a single storm that caused
more than $1 billion worth of damage. Since then, there have been more than
a dozen.* In the northern hemisphere, the southern part of the Arctic
region (home to 4,000,000 people) has experienced a temperature rise 1° to 3
°C over the last 50 years. Canada, Alaska and Russia are experiencing initial
melting of permafrost. This may disrupt ecosystems and by increasing bacterial
activity in the soil leading to these areas becoming carbon sources instead
of carbon sinks.
A study of changes to eastern Siberia's permafrost suggests that it is gradually
disappearing in the southern regions, leading to the loss of nearly 11% of Siberia's
nearly 11,000 lakes since 1971. At the same time, western Siberia is at the
initial stage where melting permafrost is creating new lakes, which will eventually
start disappearing as in the east. Western Siberia is the world's largest peat
bog, and the melting of its permafrost is likely to lead to the release, of
large quantities of methane—creating an additional source of greenhouse gas
emissions.
These weather patterns are wreaking havoc on
the worlds food supply. (See
Famine)
It's not just humans, animals are struggling as well.
We'll see as these, beasts of the earth, living conditions continue
to worsen, they will start moving toward us.
Snakes coming to town, Australian government warns
People, bears in record number of U.S. West clashes
Surge in fatal shark attacks blamed on global warming
California 2-Year-Old Dragged From Yard by Coyote in Third Such Attack in Five Days
This weather thing is really going to get nasty as we move forward.
The violent increase in the frequency and intensity of super storms, largely
caused by the warming cycle, is just one sign of His imminent return.
The World Meteorological Organization
reports on extreme weather and climate events of 2007.
Jesus says of the generation that witnesses these changes,
Matthew 24:33 So likewise
ye, when ye shall see all these things, know that it is near, even at the doors.
34Verily I say unto
you, This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled.
All the predicted signs are in view, so we can expect these very things that
are occurring.
It's time to make sure you are ready to meet the Lord.
Luke 21:28 ..... look
up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh.
Just released from the "U.S. Climate Change
Science Program"
"In the future, with continued global warming, heat waves and heavy
downpours are very
likely to further increase in frequency and intensity. Substantial areas of
North America
are likely to have more frequent droughts of greater severity. Hurricane wind
speeds,
rainfall intensity, and storm surge levels are likely to increase. The strongest
cold season
storms are likely to become more frequent, with stronger winds and more extreme
wave
heights." Get the whole report
here.
