Weird Weather

There will be great earthquakes, and there will be famines and epidemics in many lands, and there will be terrifying things and great miraculous signs in the heavens ... On the earth, nations will be in anguish and perplexity at the roaring and tossing of the sea."
Luke 21:11,25

"China faces an increase in weather disasters which will threaten crops and economic growth, the country's most senior forecaster has warned. He Lifu, of the National Meteorological Centre, told the China Daily newspaper that events such as droughts, floods and storms had become more frequent and severe since the 1990s and the trend was likely to continue.

On January 25, 2010, Todd Strandberg, the editor of the #1 prophecy website in the world posted this warning:

"In the book of Mark, Jesus warned that the last days would be the tail end of an exponential surge of activity. The Lord mentioned a great variety of signs, then He said these signs will be like 'birth pangs.' "

For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom; there will be earthquakes in various places, there will be famines; this is but the beginning of the birth-pangs
Mark 13: 8

"As the birth of a baby approaches, the birth pangs increase two ways: they increase in frequency and intensity. Thus, Jesus was saying that the closer we get to the time of His return, the more frequent and intense the signs will become. There will be more earthquakes, and more intense ones. Likewise, things like famine, pestilence, and war will increase in frequency and intensity."

"I strongly believe the Haitian disaster is part of the end-times birth pangs."

"We are now at a point of seeing many earthquakes at record-high levels.  Just look at the last ten years:" 

"It was just few years ago that a great quake struck Indonesia. That event generated a tsunami that killed 270,000 people. The last time (before 2004) we had a death toll of 200,000 was in 1976 ! The one previous to that was in 1927 ! The time gap shows the birth pang increase. Working backwards, we have a time gap of 5, 29, and 49 for those three events."

'Extreme weather will be more frequent in the future due to the instability of the atmosphere, and global warming might be the indirect cause,' the forecaster told the English-language paper. He said his agency responded to 16 emergencies last year, the most since its foundation in 1949."

http://www.ecoearth.info/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=131570

Near the end of 2007, International relief agency Oxfam released a report titled "Climate Alarm".  Here are just two of its startling conclusions...

"The total number of natural disasters has quadrupled in the last two decades - most of them floods, cyclones, and storms."  (Summary)

The total number of natural disasters worldwide now averages 400-500 a year, up from an average of 125 in the early 1980s." (Section 3: Disaster Trends)

http://www.oxfam.org/sites/www.oxfam.org/files/climate%20alarm.pdf

The statistics below are reproduced from the largest website of prophecy-related  articles on the web, "RaptureReady.com"

Superlative Storms...Hysterical Hype or End-Time Signs?

2004 - Japan was hit by a record number of typhoons.
2004 - Florida was hit by a record number of hurricanes.
2004 - Cyclone Catarina - 1st S. Atlantic cyclone to reach hurricane strength
2005 - Katrina was the most costly hurricane in history.
2005 - Rita was the most powerful Atlantic storm by barometric pressure.
2005 - Atlantic hurricane watchers record 27 storms...most ever in a season.                
2006 - Larry was the most powerful tropical system to hit Australia in 31 years.
2006 - Monica topped Larry as the most intense cyclone ever to hit Australia.               
2006 - Typhoon Saomai was the most powerful storm to hit Communist China.
2006 - Ioke - 1st recorded Cat 5 hurricane to form in the central Pacific O.                    
2007 - Cyclone Gonu - strongest tropical cyclone on record in the Arabian Sea.
2007 - The first time two Cat 5 Atlantic storms made landfall in one  season.                       
2008 - Cyclone Nargis struck Myanmar, killing an estimated 100,000 people.

http://raptureready.com/nm/196.html