An Extraordinary Year So Far Globaly For Natural Disasters.

[Snowyowl9]

Starting with the unprecendented flooding in Australia to presant day the aftermath of the hurricane in the US causing the worst flooding for 80 years.

Forest fires in the US.

The most tornadoes in living memory back in the US spring.

And earthquakes and volcanoes with NZ quake feb then Japan massive quake tsunami setting off 3 volcanoes elsewhere at the same time.

Theres so many this year I`ve lost count.

Many records have been broken thats for sure.

Last year was the worst year for a generation globally,pakistan floods which was unprecidented,massive haiti earthquake.

What`s next another hurricane in the US Katia.

Seems like the USA has been hit the hardest this year,with a record 10 castratophic events.

http://www.taiwannews.com.tw/etn/news_content.php?id=1697361

Britain has been spared,except for scotland getting most of the heavy downpours,parts of the SE once.

[Snowyowl9]

Dr Alexey Dmitriev is a professor of geology and mineralogy,and chief scientific member of the united institute of geophysics.in Novosibirsk,Siberia.

In a paper entitled Planetophysical state of the earth and life,he discuss recent changes on the sun,earth and the other planets of the solar system.He notes the upward trajectory in the amount of solar activity since the maunder minimum(when sunspots were very scarce)in the late 1600`s and the increased frequency of X-ray flares.

Wilcock extends this information in the divine cosmos,giving accounts of recent solar storms(1989 to 2003)X-ray flares that caused power-grid collapses and alteration to earths magnetic field,coronal mass ejections and the increasing speed of the solar wind.The records are constantly being broken as the sun gets ever more active,leading support to the idea that we are approaching the end of a solar megacycle.

Dmitriev also points out the earth`s magnetic anomalies,weakening field and accelerating movement of magnetic poles as evidence that a geomagnetic inversion is taking place.He mentions the climate change that are currently causing concern,and then shows that extreme weather and seismic phenomena such as floods,hurricanes,earthquakes and landslides are also on the increase,having gone collectively up by 410% from 1963 to 1993(Wilcock says the figure is 600%).

And he provides back-up information here,with evidence that volcanic activity has increased by 500% since 1875.

However,official sources in western europe and USA say that increased reports of quakes are explained by advances in seismic detection technology and increased number of monitoring station around the world,while an apparent rise in volcanic eruptions is due to the population explosion,with more people living near volcanoes and reporting eruptions via the internet.

The other planets in the solar system are also showing changes,including a change in atmosphere,brightening,and the appearance of dark and light spots on Venus,plus a sharp decrease of sulphur-containing gases in its atmosphere and a sodium(or natrium)atmosphere or tail forming around the moon.

The atmosphere density mars was twice as thick as it should of been,causing the melting of the martian ice caps,plus a cloudy growth in the equator region and an unusual growth of ozone concentration.

Jupiters magnetic field intensity has doubled,and the planet has developed a visible one million amperer flux tube of ionised gases from its magnetic poles to the moon lo.

Dmitriev also mentions that jupiter has had an appearance of radiation belt brightening and large auroral anomalies,but these are thought to be the aftermath of the collision with comet shoemaker-levy-9 in 1994.On saturn,the brightness has increased,along with the appearance of polar auroras.Uranus and neptune have both had recent polar shifts,and the magnetosphere of uranus has made a sudden leap in intensity,while neptune has had a change in light intensity and light spot dynamics.Pluto has also had a growth of dark spots in 1994 and released to the public in 1996.In fact in July 2003 it was announced on the BBC news website that astronomers have been baffled to find that pluto`s atmosphere has thickened over the last 14 years(deduced by calculating the dimming of background stars as pluto passes in front of them).Wilcock also adds that a new thin atmosphere on mercury has recently been odserved,and he has also updated the planetary observations(since Dmitriev`s essay was written in 1997 and updated in 1998)showing that these changes are an ongoing process.

Dmitriev says that there is one root causes for all these earth changes,solar changes and changes to other planets,and they can all be attributed to the fact that the solar system is moving into aa new energetic area.

[4wd]

Starting with the unprecendented flooding in Australia to presant day the aftermath of the hurricane in the US causing the worst flooding for 80 years.

Forest fires in the US.

The most tornadoes in living memory back in the US spring.

And earthquakes and volcanoes with NZ quake feb then Japan massive quake tsunami setting off 3 volcanoes elsewhere at the same time.

Theres so many this year I`ve lost count.

Many records have been broken thats for sure.

Last year was the worst year for a generation globally,pakistan floods which was unprecidented,massive haiti earthquake.

What`s next another hurricane in the US Katia.

Seems like the USA has been hit the hardest this year,with a record 10 castratophic events.

http://www.taiwannew....php?id=1697361

Britain has been spared,except for scotland getting most of the heavy downpours,parts of the SE once.

None of these events are even remotely unprecedented at all, nor can they be linked.

(doesn't stop the blogosphere trying though!)

The Australian floods were similar to some in the early 1900s but the area was less developed so didn't matter much.

One Hurricane brushed the east coast of USA - happens almost every year and often they have several far worse.

Tornadoes - who counted them before the recent trend for chasing using high tech radar?

Earthquakes - well NZ is a volcanic country and Christchurch only existed 200 years or so.

It wasn't even especially large just shallow so destructive to buildings not built to withstand quakes.

Japan - sad loss of life but there have been many Tsunamis there which is why we use a Japanese word for them.

Again the only reason it seems worse is all the modern paraphernalia along the coastline.

[TEITS]

None of these events are even remotely unprecedented at all, nor can they be linked.

(doesn't stop the blogosphere trying though!)

In some respects you're right but the point is how so many disasters have occured within a short space of time.

This is why the combination of these natural disasters, global economy, wars is why I believe we are living in the period referred to as "the end times" and we are experiencing the great tribulations that the Bible speaks of.

No doubt I shall be mocked for having these beliefs but frankly I couldn't careless!

Edited September 9, 2011 by THE EYE IN THE SKY

[pottyprof]

In some respects you're right but the point is how so many disasters have occured within a short space of time.

There are more disasters reported because we have the means to record and compare. The last 15-20 years has seen a huge increase in remote sensing and the speed to compare via vast databases. You also have the means to send media virtually instantaneously

This is why the combination of these natural disasters, global economy, wars is why I believe we are living in the period referred to as "the end times" and we are experiencing the great tribulations that the Bible speaks of.

Possibly but remember that the bible is a huge fairy story written many years after events and probably refer to a time shortly after the the first story of doom was verbally told.

No doubt I shall be mocked for having these beliefs but frankly I couldn't careless!

If you don't care less, why mention it??

[Crepuscular Ray]

I'm not going to mock you TEITS; you're entitled to your opinion. I disagree with it, but that's no reason to be nasty (IMO). However, there is nothing unusual about the natural events that have happened this year on top of any other.

I don't believe we're in the end of times or even approaching the end of the Mayan fifth period (or was it the sixth). There have always been disasters, it's just that in the last year a fair proportion of them have been in areas that are easier for the western media to parachute television crews into.

To reply to part of Snowy's posts

The Queensland floods - as far as Brisbane is concerned anyway - were exacerbated by the facts that the area near the river used to be a flood plain but is now completely built over and that the water company failed to do an early release of stored water from the upstream reservoirs despite the forecasts, meaning that they didn't have any spare capacity. What is unusual is the drought of the preceeding 15 years or more. Flooding in Queensland - aka the Big Wet - because of sudden heavy rainfall is nothing new at all. Apart from the northern part of the Great Dividing Range, the vast majority of the land outside the south-eastern bit of the state is flat with few natural drainage channels so the water tends to stick around.

This has been a minimal year for hurricanes in the US. We're only on the third named system that's made it to hurricane status, which is an indication of low activity.

There are forest fires in the US every year.

Please can you supply proof that the Japanese earthquake provoked three volcanoes in the same region.

I doubt that there has been a record number of anything this year. There have been worse floods in, e.g. Bangladesh, in the recent past than in Pakistan this year (catastrophic as the Pakistan ones were).

As far as the solar system stuff goes:

I'd be very sceptical about whether the changes that he mentions about the planets aren't actually just because we've only been looking at them for the last 20 years. How are we to know that such fluctuations aren't natural over a solar cycle rather than a major anomaly?

Does Dr Dmitriev have any concrete stats on a direct link between climate change and earthquakes? I'm also concerned that you're using an article published in 1997 to extrapolate the causes of this year's weather events, given that - like the rest of us - Prof Dmitriev had no idea in 1997 what solar activity would be this year.

Has he noticed that solar activity has been decreasing rapidly over the last solar cycle?

Please can you post a link to a credible site that supports his supposition that volcanic activity has increased by that amount since 1875? Might it not just be that we're better at detecting events given that in the 19th century getting records from the most active regions was far more difficult. A like for like comparison of what we'd be detecting now with the technology of the 1870s would be a start.

Rant over.

CR

Edited September 9, 2011 by crepuscular ray

[Habsish]

What a load of old tosh. Pick and choose any seleection of events and you can try and prove anything.

H

[Weather-history]

Natural disasters happen every year, the number and intensity vary, thats called natural variation. Look how many people died as a result of 2005 Atlantic hurricane season. Katrina and the Indian Ocean tsunami/earthquake happen with 9 months of each other by the way.

If you look at an edition of the Britannica book of the year, they list natural disasters that occurred that they know of. Many were never reported in this country. If you look at the list, you would think it was the end of the world . For instance, how many heard of the landslides at Budalyk, Kyrgyzstan on the 25th April 2004 that killed at least 33 people?

Britain had two major airline disasters within a month of each other, Lockerbie and Kegworth, I don't think there has been a major airline disaster on or over British soil since then and that was early 1989. We had three serious rail crashes within 4 months of each other resulting in deaths within that same period. This is by chance.

It certainly doesn't mean armageddon is around the corner.

Edited September 15, 2011 by Mr_Data

[Coast]

Certainly is an extraordinary year for widespread coverage of natural disasters.......

[Aaron]

When you report more natural disasters occurring it's bound to look like they're becoming more frequent. In reality earthquakes that are large enough to case damage occur around 100 times a year.

If you want to see end of times go back to the 1920's/30's when the world was plagued with two world wars and the worst financial meltdown ever.

Another interesting fact is Alaska usually experiences a magnitude 7 earthquake every year and a magnitude 8 earthquake once every 14 years. This is a relatively sparsely populated place.

Edited September 15, 2011 by Aaron

[Methuselah]

Certainly is an extraordinary year for widespread coverage of natural disasters.......

That's the heart of the matter, Coast. News (and drivel) travels faster now than it ever did before.