Wild Watter

Global warming is all the rage these days, and with 2012 right around the corner, more and more people are talking about the Great Flood. When most people think about the Great Flood, their minds manufacture images of Noah’s Ark, the Hindu story of Manu, or the harrowing Epic of Gilgamesh. Yes, the Great Flood myth is widespread among many cultures and is mostly about a huge flood that comes and destroys civilization. If a massive flood were to occur, what would it look like, and what cities and countries would be the first to “drown?”The study of earth’s history is not a subject of idle curiosity. We need to know more if we hope to solve the environmental crises that face humanity.

That’s one reason that a biblical perspective on history is so important. It helps us make sense of the problems we face today and prepare for the future.Scientists who believe in the biblical account of Noah’s Flood, on the other hand, believe the ice must have appeared shortly after the Flood. Depending on their assumptions, equally skilled scientists can reach very different conclusions.

When you are snowed in and shivering its hard to believe that the world is getting warmer.

When your house is flooded its hard to believe that Global Warming will cause more droughts.

Yet NASA has recently released its temperature numbers for 2010, and they match the NOAA analysis, showing a tie between 2010 and 2005 for hottest year on record. The NOAA report shows that 2010 was an exceptional in many ways. Globally, it was the wettest year ever. Perhaps the Australians, Pakistanis, Tennesseans and Californians who lived through epic floods would testify and agree with this.

A record heat wave in Russia lasted for more than two months, setting peak temperature records al over the country.

Some have argued that the floods in Queensland are the kind of extreme weather event that we can expect more of, with climate change. But these arguments are unconvincing as it appears that climate change is promoted as the universal cause of all climate events - floods, droughts, cold snaps, higher temperatues, blizzards and the increased frequency and more severe climate extremes. The Queensland flood coincided with a very significant La Nina event (explained below), and his was the mostly likely cause. Of course the La Nina itself was produced by climate change as well, wasn't it?

The climate change scientists stress these weather extremes does not mean that carbon dioxide and methane are no longer exerting a warming influence. Cold snaps, drought and floods are expected naturally even as the climate continues on a long-term warming trend.

The global average surface temperature was 1.12 degrees Fahrenheit above the average for the entire 20th century. It was the 34th time running that average global temperatures have been above the 20th-century. Federal researchers claim that these figures showed that the global warming has continued. Nine of the 10 warmest years on record have occurred since the year 2000.

Tsunami is a wave train or series of waves generated, by impulsive disturbance that vertically displaces the water column, in water body. Earthquake, landslides, volcanic eruption, explosion and even the impact of cosmic bodies like meteorites commonly generate tsunami. Tsunami savagely attacks coastlines causing devastating property damage and loss of lives.

Loss or harm caused by a destructive tsunami. More specifically, the damage caused directly by tsunamis can be summarized into the following: 1) deaths and injuries; 2) houses destroyed, partly destroyed, inundated, flooded, or burned; 3) other property damage and loss; 4) boats washed away, damaged or destroyed; 5) lumber washed away.