The planets are aligned! The storms/floods/cyclones are devastating! AGW (according to Senator Brown of the Greens) is all because of fossil fuel burning and AGW 2012 will see the end of the world?
The Christian fundamentals and Scientologists are telling us we are about to receive the second coming (who, it is not clear – could be an ET or, as the planet was formed in six days 6000 years ago, that archaeologists/geologists/palaeontologists are idiots? All will rise from the dead? I hope Hitler doesn’t!) Or, if we have absorbed the Holy Spirit and speak in tongues, you are one of the chosen people, but psychiatrists might differ?
In my opinion, all ripping off their followers to ostensibly save their souls but likewise make their organisations lots of money. With their ideology ‘The End of the World is nigh?’ Repent or suffer.
The Middle East is in a political trauma. Egypt, Yemen, Syria, Jordan and Tunisia are in political turmoil. Not Israel yet. Without the help of the West. Archaeological sites have been robbed in Egypt. Of course the stolen artifacts will promote political freedom. NOT!
We have the AGW alarmists telling us the cyclones and floods are caused by human activities. Mind you, forget that other global areas have been affected by worse floods, blizzards and more human casualties. Members of the Church of Climate Alarmists will tell you differently!
My grandfather Francis Bishop Down-Mayne recorded very bad ‘hurricanes’ off the coast of Queensland, when part of the Australian Royal Naval Station 1884–1891. One tropical cyclone off the Queensland coast killed 400 people in 1899. Cyclone force 5. Dolphins were thrown 400 feet up on land.
Australia has an unpredictable climatic history on land and off shore.
Not by divine providence – just natural weather patterns.
Pat Lightfoot
