Extreme climatic chages like tsunamis, tornados, floods, soaring temperatures, metling ice......wars, hatred, racism....everything destructive seems to be on the rise.  What have we become?  Can we turn things around?  Or is it too late?  Please give hope.
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In the long run no there is nothing we can do. We as a species will either die out or evolve into something that does not resemble current modern day man. Eventually the Sun will go red giant and swallow the Earth. Then the sun will die out and turn cold. Things get even more grim after that. \n\nGlobal Warming: yes in there are things that we could do to make it less sever less quickly, namely slow our use of fossil fuel. \n\nWars, hatred, and racism.. Those things will wax and wane over time. \n\nTsunamis: get away from the coast after an earthquake, subsurface landslide, or Ocean landing meteor strike. \n\nTornadoes: stay away from the South and Midwest. \n\nSoaring temperatures: move closer to the polar icecaps, or higher elevations. \n\n  Can we turn it around depends on whether or not you believe in free will. \n\n  Is it too late: Right now this is the only ship we have to ride, so keep fighting until it goes down. That is all that any of us can do. Giving up will solve nothing. Placing all of your hopes that someone else will fix it, or some God will come down and clean up our mess is just fanciful dreaming. \n\nWe can lobby our government. We can vote. We can drive economy cars, carpool or take the bus. We can recycle. We can use more insulation in the walls and ceilings of our homes. We can invest in alternative fuels.\nNever give up hope.
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Archangels! Apocalypse! Rays of lighting! It's all over!!!\nYeeeaaarrrggggg!\nThe four horsemen are here!!!\n\n\nOn a serious note, it will all be over soon, but due to our careless regard for the environment and our arrongance, no divine intervention involved.
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Actually, I do believe that this is exactly what happened.  And I also believe that we are doing exactly the same thing to earth.\n\nThe arctic ice is melting, hurricanes are getting worse, the ozone layer around the earth has 3 confirmed holes---and as the weather goes for the last 2 or 3 years:  I would say that something is seriously out of balance.....and if you watch the discovery channel often enough then you probably have watched the reports on the rivers---how man has straightenend them out with their dams and that the Mississippi River will one day be as big as it used to be......meaning that you cannot see the other side of the river(big as a sea the old indians described it).  \n\nGlobal warming is a reality.  And the responsibility needs to go to those chemical factories that refuse to add enough cleaning devices to prevent that all those chemicals get into the air.  All over Europe will you find such obligations for all big factories---but the United States wants to save money....the only thing that can be done is if the entire world has one uniform rule and abides by that.  It makes little sense that a country like China can pollute all theu want to----the air is not stagnant, clouds travel, so all their dirt in the air can very well pollute the rest.\nIt also has been established that the axis of the globe has shifted slightly--so again, we are headed toward a huge disaster.  I am old, I am probably dead when it happens, but I do have children....they will have to live through it
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When Plato's ancestor Solon went to Sais in Egypt (600 BC), the priests told him about Atlantis. They also said that inscriptions on their temple walls told how many times civilisations had risen to great heights and then fallen because of natural catastrophes such as floods, fire, earthquakes, etc. I think that maybe we are being a little presumptuous to think that it can't happen to us. I have spent the last 15/20 years researching a related subject and in my opinion the last great catastrophe was 9600 BC, with the sudden and abrupt end of the mini-ice-age called the Younger Dryas period. I believe that this is the basis of the Biblical flood. Getting back to today - the Christian versus Muslim thing - yep, of course it coming, you can smell it! I should imagine that most of the faceless men in grey suits already know this and are moving their pieces on the world chess board accordingly. Humans are amazing - we've been on the moon and sent machines out to beyond the solar system, I can pick up my phone and talk immediately to a person on the other side of the world, I can sit in my armchair and with the smallest of thumb movements be entertained by 100 different TV channels - but with the flick of an eyelid this civilisation can be destroyed because people believe that their unseen and unproven overlord of the cosmos is better than the other man's invisible and all-seeing ever-present boss. It almost makes you want to scream! We're such clever animals - but I don't think that we're too intelligent - and when it's all over we'll begin again.
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What many of us old folks figured out about 40 years ago is that the so-called survivors will only have a short while to live. The way the upper level winds circulate will cause the entire planet to move into an extended winter that will not allow plants to grow. Food will run out and when the last Guy gets done eating his last neighbor he will starve to death.\n\nThat's why we stopped wondering about things like you are asking and tried to make people see that hate and conflict are not the answer to anything. Your welcome to join us.\n\nLove and blessings Don
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I guess I'm one of those people who notices changes in my own state - winters are NOT the same - but I am aware that our planet has undergone changes in the past. Are humans having an effect? I'm sure of it. But how much? And how much of the changes we're seeing are completely natural in the grand scheme of things? I'm not prepared to answer.
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acually, some signs of the end of the world are alot.\nbut i will tell u some.\n- more racism\n-more floods\n-more deaths\n-more unjustice & unpeace\n-more wars\n-more earth quacks
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Society's downfall has been predicted with alarming regularity since the beginning of civilization. Those "old days" were not as "good" as folks make them out to be, as brown eyed bohemian pointed out.\n\nWhile we have more ways of destroying our planet than ever, I don't think we're quite ready for "Armageddon" just yet. While the disappearance of the US middle class is a chilling development, it's not the biggest we face.\n\nClimate changes prompted by global warming will make it tougher for BILLIONS of people to have any quality of life at all. People (especially in the wealthier nations like US and Europe) will have to get politically active locally and nationally to get their leaders to follow the proper course. Just as important, we will need to network on an informal basis with our counterparts in other countries. Keep on the good foot. Cincypix.
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Yes.  Global Warming is occuring.  It will just keep getting worse if we don't take measures to try and prevent things from getting worse.
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Yes it is. We are destroying our planet for our grandchildren. You will hear a lot of nonsense about how the temperature has only gone up a certain number of degrees in the last how ever many years and how that increase is not significant enough to warrant changes on a global scale. \n\nPoint one) There are not as many cars, oil refineries, etc now as there will be in five, ten, fifty years. Our output of pollution will go up exponentially.\n\nPoint Two) Any change in our planet's climate is significant. It's not just temperature. It effects weather, global health, crop production, etc. As humans, we have pretty narrow envirnomental parameters in which we can survive. And we're messing with that to make a buck. Unreal.\n\nPoint three) It takes pollutants about one hundred years to have effects on our atmosphere. Think about that. That means that the effects of global warming that we are experiencing now are caused by the pollution in 1906. Think of the explosion of industry which has taken place in the last 100 years, and how much worse it will be in 100 years...\n\nWe need to take some responsibility for the mess we've made. Yeah, we've made trillions of dollars destroying this planet. It's time to spend millions if not billions fixing it. A child can only live in a filthy room for so long before it's time to clean up, go on a diet, and pull it together, man.\n\nGood Luck!
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Yes. My neighbor has collected weather data for the last 15 years.  It's mostly temperature, rain amount, and a general description of the weather.  I did a statistical analysis of the temperature data and discovered that the trend indicated an increasing temperature.  I used a least squares analysis and plotted the graph.  I did this for a monthly average, and a yearly average.  The trend is upward for both, and some record highs were recorded in several months. I don't want to get into the details for anyone who is a statistical genius at this point.  The outcome seems to depend on which political party you belong to in the US. \nThere are also some wild fluctuations in temperature, and wind events.  We have had some severe storms that have damaged large areas of pristine forests, and we have had some major flooding. I live in Pennsylvania and, yes, I would say the temperature is changing somewhat by inching upwards, based on temperature data.  The voracity of some storm events are very damaging, as viewed over my lifetime in this geographic area.  Friend to friend, I would think about moving to Europe if I was you.  You are going to experience a cataclysmic event in the near future that will have devastating effects on the UK.  At least that's what my research shows.  But, it's just the rantings of a conspiracy nut, that's what my friends say.
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Cold weather is the result of non-will in us. If none of us step up and start Being that which we really are, then maybe an ice age will come. I live in Sweden, and yes it is getting colder.....
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I don't think we have reached the point of no return but I do think we are dangerously close to getting to that point.  I don't pretend to be a  political expert by any stretch, just an average person so I may be wrong, but it seems to me that we are way too anxious to go all over the world to fight battles for who ever cries for help while leaving our own borders wide open.  We have terrorism going on in our own country everyday with freaks like the guy who went into the Amish school and shot 10 little girls killing 5 of them.  I don't know what the average daily number of homicides is in this country but I know that in our state capitol, the number this year is staggering.  Drive by shootings, murder - suicide and random acts of violence are nothing but homeland terrorism.  That, coupled with the horridous influx of illegal immigrants has made this a scary place to live.  I think we need to stop trying to save the world and work on saving our nation.  I completely support our troops and the work they do every day all around the world and am actually the mother of a military person but I still think we need to use our military here at home to close our borders, protect us from incoming threats and concentrate on Homeland Security.  How can we save the world if we can't save ourselves?  (you said you wanted detailed answers! :)
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I think it very likely that some people will survive.  We have a great track record of tolerating and adapting to some pretty extreme conditions.  I expect there are some secret hideaways that would even allow a few folks to survive a "nuclear winter" scenario, and start repopulating without the technology.  Obviously, any less serious scenario will allow even more flexibility for means of survival.  Right now, today, I do not believe there is a practical possibility of more than two nuclear devices being detonated -- those few who might be otherworldly enough to use them do not, praise Allah and thank God, have the means to use more.  The tragic military, political, economic, and environmental consequences would immediately and eventually kill tens of millions of people, perhaps hundreds of millions, and alter the conditions of life for the billions remaining..  but "billions remaining" is a great lot of survivors to be tolerating and adapting to conditions.  We'll manage.
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No,these times are calm.Not enough excitment.One or two devestating storms every hundred or so yrs.Big deal.Storms are small compared to early in earth's history.
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The 21st century sadly will be a war-zone.\n\nTerrorists are everywhere, and nuclear weapons continue to spread to 3rd world nations. Put the two together and its a recipe for disaster.\n\nLike most people, I long for peace. But I don't see it happening. Hopefully, we all learn from the past, and trust in God and diplomacy.
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Nah - I think we've been in the "last days" for a long time.  What is a day to God?\n\nEvery generation has it's apocalyptic signs.  Only God knows for sure.  Since he loves me, I try not to worry too much about things over which I have no control.