Apocalypse Now: Floods, Tornadoes, Locusts

alen1 · Jun 13, 2008

In the beginning, God created heaven and Earth, and he saw that it was good. So begins the Book of Genesis, the dramatic opener of the Old Testament.

But things went downhill from there.

God's wrath seems at work these days, as the heavens and Earth have unleashed earthquakes in China, a cyclone in Burma, killer tornadoes and record floods across the U.S. and even a plague of locusts (cicadas) in New England.
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Another excerpt from the article:

Meteorologists say there is a natural explanation for all this catastrophic weather — Pacific Decadal Oscillation. Since the 1970s, the Pacific Ocean has been warming, but now it is going through a cooling phase, according to Jay Searles, forecaster instructor at Penn State University.

"But now, we are flipping, and these flips happen over decades," said Searles. "When we go through transition phases like right now, they tend to favor stormy more violent weather – everything we have been observing."
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Its pretty lengthy (4 pages to be exact) but interesting. I'm not completely sure if this belongs in here or in the Religion forum, if it belongs in the Religion, I apologize.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/Weather/Story?id=5062583&page=1

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