Amy,
I would expect more from you on this. It is all about climate change of which ‘global warming’ is a part. In fact, global warming is a buzz word/phrase for political pandering. There is no doubt that greenhouse gases are on the rise especially CO2 but water vapor is the biggest green house gas.
Climate change is all dictated by a 100,000 or 110,000 year orbital cycle of the earth’s path around the sun which mixes in to the 100,000 cycle 3 other cycles of 19,000 to 23,000 years and 41,000 years.
All these together are considered an ice age when the climate will build ice sheets for about 90,000 years then melt them in about 10,000 years. From what I have read(which I will list here in a bit)we are on the break of the ice sheet melt and the beginning of the the build up of a new ice age. Fortunately it will take while to build huge ice sheets but the change in climate will produce often quick and severe weather all over the earth, such as hurricane and typhoon season coming on strong then weaken and becoming strong again.
But for the right now, the El Nino Southern Oscillation is what is driving the weather systems every year where it will be wet and stormy in parts of the world for a year or 2 or 3 then it will calm down or go into a drought stage which parts of the planet will either have severe droughts or severe flooding and the summer will be very hot or not so hot and winters the cold or not so cold.
But people have without a doubt and without good common sense contributed to the increase of CO2 in the atmosphere and the effects of that are still being studied.
Now, for excellent reading on this I suggest you read Richard Alley’s book ‘The 2 Mile Time Machine’ and Eugene Lindon’s book ‘Winds of Change’. There will be other sources listed in these books but these are very good reading for starting a serious layperson’s search into just what science has determined about our weather and climate, it is volatile.

I agree with Amy that News Reports are missing some very vital information.  They report that “floods” are happening, and that “people” are dying and left homeless, but they don’t address, or even ask about the causes of all this flooding.

True, as Amy says, that Global Warming is a factor.  Producing more rain as a result of this “warming” creates drainage problems for entire communities, but the most common problem is that we “pave” over everyting. 

Water was meant to “filter” into the earth, refreshing the Water Table, not forced into streams and rivers!  They (in Iowa) wonder why this round of flooding is worse than 1993, well, I’ll tell them,  it’s because they “paved” over more land during these last 15 years.  Water now runs off the land, into the rivers at an ever increasing rate.  Dams, Levee’s or other barriers will do nothing to alleviate this as Water is considered the most ‘errosional’ element yet discovered on earth.

It may be time to go back to dirt roads!

NrthEstWstSth:  I read about HAARP just about three yeas ago. It is truly frightening. To speak of this to the uniformed gets you labeled a tin foil hatter.  If only they knew or dare I say, even cared to research it themselves they might just get into bed, covers pulled over their heads, never to come out again.

It was another trip down the rabbit hole for me as 9/11 was.  The more research you do, the more you realize how in the dark we have been to the manipulations of the elite.  Whether it be our elections, energy supply, dollar or yes, even more importantly, our weather.

Is global warming caused by the military playing with their very powerful toy or is it our suvs? The more you know about HAARP, the more you wonder.

RE: NrthEstWstSth

Years ago I read the book: “Angels Don’t Play This HAARP; Advances in Tesla Technology” Which Nick Begich co-authored with Jeane Manning.

Jeane Manning took over the ‘Alternative Energy’ editorial section in Atlantis Rising, following the mysterious demise of her predecessor, Eugene Malove, a guy that left MIT, was on the cutting edge of what is known as ‘Zero Point Energy’, who had ruffled quite a few feathers in the process.

E-Systems is one of the biggest intelligence contractors in the world—doing work for the CIA, defense intelligence organizations and others. $1.8 billion of their annual sales are to these organizations, with $800 million for black projects—projects so secret that even the United States Congress isn’t told how the money is being spent.

The twelve patents listed at the link below are the backbone of the HAARP project, and are now buried among the thousands of others held in the name of Raytheon. Bernard J. Eastlund’s U.S. Patent # 4,686,605, “Method and Apparatus for Altering a Region in the Earth’s Atmosphere, Ionosphere; and/or Magnetosphere,” was sealed for a year under a government Secrecy Order.

Related research by Begich and Manning uncovered bizarre schemes. Air Force documents revealed that a system had been developed for manipulating and disturbing human mental processes through pulsed radio-frequency radiation (the stuff of HAARP) over large geographical areas. The most telling material about this technology came from writings of Zbigniew Brzezinski (former National Security Advisory to U.S. President Carter) and J.F. MacDonald (science advisor to U.S. President Johnson and a professor of Geophysics at UCLA), as they wrote about use of power-beaming transmitters for geophysical and environmental warfare. The documents showed how these effects might be caused, and the negative effects on human heath and thinking.

The mental-disruption possibilities for HAARP are the most disturbing. More than 40 pages of the book, with dozens of footnotes, chronicle the work of Harvard professors, military planners and scientists as they plan and test this use of the electromagnetic technology. For example, one of the papers describing this use was from the International Red Cross in Geneva. It even gave the frequency ranges where these effects could occur—the same ranges which HAARP is capable of broadcasting.

Begich has served as an expert witness and speaker before the European Parliament. He has spoken on various issues for groups representing citizen concerns, statesmen and elected officials, scientists and others exposing this.

In 1970, Begich’s father was elected to Alaska’s at-large seat in the U.S. House of Representatives, defeating Republican banker Frank Murkowski (later a U.S. Senator and eventually Governor of Alaska). In 1972, he faced the Republican state senator Don Young. On October 16, 1972, Begich Sr. was aboard a twin engine Cessna 310 along with Congressman Hale Boggs of Louisiana when the plane disappeared during a flight from Anchorage to Juneau. The wreckage was never found and Nick suspected foul play.

Following the development of the atomic bomb, ever since, the military industry has monopolized science, prioritizing all innovative thought into weapons of power. In the meantime, the world’s population sucks the planet dry with 18th century, carbon aspirating technology.

Here is a detailed video overview of – HAARP, Advanced Tesla Technology:
http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=1078594

The Military’s Pandora’s Box
by Dr. Nick Begich and Jeane Manning:
http://www.haarp.net/

Peace, Best Wishes and Hope

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People here do not seem interested in these stories because it hasn’t happened where they live yet.  I agree, peedeecee, that we should speak of “climate change”.  All I heard last winter was, “What was that about global warming, bring it on.”

Thanks Amy and Denis.  Another worthy read.

It is much, much better to use the term “climate change” than to call it “global warming.” The latter definition invites argument from simple-minded people who pooh-pooh “global warming” because last winter was cold.