The great Bwana to Africa is having a naturopathic meltdown today over various weather stories in the news over the last few days. His god is one angry pissed-off creature that is so mad that he is letting satan run amok causing all kinds of problems in the world, particularly in the United States, so much so that it is a sure sign that his god is not pleased and is punishing rebellious sinners who are not COG members.
‘Germany floods: At least 33 dead’ ‘Record-breaking drought, heatwaves, wildfires, melting permafrost, and plagues promises to be a worrying summer for the United States! … Canada … Bulgaria … Spain’
Weather happens, buckwheat! It happens in cyclical patterns for millennia. What is happening today, thanks to amazing technology and instant access to news is that weather is reported as it is happening, instead of having huge delays in publishing.
Analysis of trends and of aggregated time series on climatic (30-year) scale does not indicate consistent trends worldwide. Despite common perception, in general, the detected trends are more negative (less intense floods in most recent years) than positive. Similarly, Svensson et al. (2005) and Di Baldassarre et al. (2010) did not find systematical change neither in flood increasing or decreasing numbers nor change in flood magnitudes in their analysis.
Like Holdren, many people who ascribe to doomsday scenarios related to AGW seem to think that severe weather is happening more frequently. From a perception not steeped in the history of television technology, web technology, and mass media, which has been my domain of avocation and business, I can see how some people might think this. I’ve touched on this subject before, but it bears repeating again and in more detail.
Let’s consider how we might come to think that severe weather is more frequent than before. Using this Wikipedia timeline as a start, I’ve created a timeline that tracks the earliest communications to the present, adding also severe weather events of note and weather and news technology improvements for context.
- Prior to 3500BC – Communication was carried out through paintings of indigenous tribes.
- 3500s BC – The Sumerians develop cuneiform writing and the Egyptians develop hieroglyphic writing
- 16th century BC – The Phoenicians develop an alphabet
- AD 26-37 – Roman Emperor Tiberius rules the empire from island of Capri by signaling messages with metal mirrors to reflect the sun
- 105 – Tsai Lun invents paper
- 7th century – Hindu-Malayan empires write legal documents on copper plate scrolls, and write other documents on more perishable media
- 751 – Paper is introduced to the Muslim world after the Battle of Talas
- 1305 – The Chinese develop wooden block movable type printing
- 1450 – Johannes Gutenberg finishes a printing press with metal movable type
- 1520 – Ships on Ferdinand Magellan‘s voyage signal to each other by firing cannon and raising flags.
- 1776 The Pointe-à-Pitre hurricane was at one point the deadliest Atlantic hurricane on record. At least 6,000 fatalities occurred on Guadeloupe, which was a higher death toll than any known hurricane before it. It also struck Louisiana, but there was no warning nor knowledge of the deaths on Guadeloupe when it did. It also affected Antigua and Martinique early in its duration.
- 1780 – The Great Hurricane of 1780, also known as Hurricane San Calixto is considered the deadliest Atlantic tropical cyclone of all time. About 22,000 people died when the storm swept over Martinique, St. Eustatius and Barbados between October 10 and October 16. Thousands of deaths also occurred offshore. Reports of this hurricane took weeks to reach US newspapers of the era.
- 1793 – Claude Chappe establishes the first long-distance semaphore telegraph line
- 1812 – The Aug. 19, 1812 New Orleans Hurricane that didn’t appear in the Daily National Intelligencer/(Washington, DC) until later September. Daily National Intelligencer. Sept. 22, 1812, p. 3. Dreadful Hurricane. The following letters present an account of the ravages of one of those terrific storms to which the Southern extreme of our continent is so subject. Extract of a letter from Gen. Wilkinson, dated New Orleans, August 22.
I skipped several years to this:
- 1986 July 18th, KARE-TV in Minneapolis dispatches a news helicopter to catch live video of a tornado in progress, live at 5:13 PM during their news broadcast.
- 1988 – Doppler Radar goes national – the construction of a network consisting of 10 cm (4 in) wavelength radars, called NEXRAD or WSR-88D (Weather Service Radar 1988 Doppler), was started.
- 1989 – Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Cailliau built the prototype system which became the World Wide Web at CERN
- 1989 – August Sony announced the Sony ProMavica (Magnetic Video Camera) electronic still camera, considered the first widely available electronic camera able to load images to a computer via floppy disk.
- 1991 – Anders Olsson transmits solitary waves through an optical fiber with a data rate of 32 billion bits per second.
- 1991 – The 1991 Perfect Storm hits New England as a Category 1 hurricane and causes $1 billion dollars in damage. Covered widely in TV and print, it later becomes a movie starring George Clooney.
- 1992 – Neil Papworth sends the first SMS (or text message).
- 1992 – August 16-28 Hurricane Andrew, spotted at sea with weather satellites, is given nearly continuous coverage on CNN and other network news outlets as it approaches Florida. Live TV news via satellite coverage as well as some Internet coverage is offered. It was the first Category 5 hurricane imaged on NEXRAD.
- 1993 – The Great Mississippi Flood was carried on network television as levees breached, millions of viewers watched the flood in real-time and near real-time.
- 1994 – Internet2 organization created
- 1994 – Home satellite service DirecTV launched on June 17th
- 1994 – An initiative by Vice President Gore raised the NOAA Weather Radio warning coverage to 95 percent of the US populace.
- 1995 – The Weather Underground website was launched
- 1995 – DSL (Digital Subscriber Line) began to be implemented in the USA
- 1996 – Home satellite service Dish Network launched on March 4th
- 1996 – Fox News Channel was launched on October 7, 1996 with 24 hour news coverage
- 1996 – The Movie “Twister” was released on May 10, showing the drama and science of severe weather chasing in the USA midwest.
- 1999 – Dr. Kevin Trenberth posts a report and web essay titled The Extreme Weather Events of 1997 and 1998 citing “global greenhouse warming” as a cause. Trenberth recognizes “wider coverage” but dismisses it saying: “While we are indeed exposed to more and ever-wider coverage of the weather, the nature of some of the records being broken suggests a deeper explanation: that real changes are under way.”
- 2002 – Google News page was launched in March. It was later updated to so that users can request e-mail “alerts” on various keyword topics by subscribing to Google News Alerts.
- 2004 – December: A freak snowstorm hits the southernmost parts of Texas and Louisiana, dumping snow into regions that do not normally witness winter snowfall during the hours leading up to December 25 in what is called the 2004 Christmas Eve Snowstorm.
- 2004 – DSL began to become widely accepted in the USA, making broadband Internet connections affordable to most homes.
- 2004 – On November 19, the Website “Real Climate” was introduced, backed by Fenton communications, to sell the idea of climate change from “real scientists”.
- 2004 – December The website “Climate Audit” was launched.
- 2005 – August, Hurricane Katrina caused catastrophic damage along the Gulf Coast of the United States, forcing the effective abandonment of southeastern Louisiana (including New Orleans) for up to 2 months and damaging oil wells that sent gas prices in the U.S. to an all-time record high. Katrina killed at least 1,836 people and caused at least $75 billion US in damages, making it one of the costliest natural disasters of all time. TV viewers worldwide watched the storm strike in real time, Internet coverage was also timely and widespread.
- 2006 – Al Gore’s movie An Inconvenient Truth premiered at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival and opening in New York City and Los Angeles on May 24. It went on to limited theater release and home view DVD. It was the first entertainment film about global warming as a “crisis”, with hurricane Katrina prominently featured as “result” of global warming.
- 2006 – The short instant message service Twitter was launched July 15, 2006
- 2006 – November 17th, Watts Up With That was launched.
- 2007 – The iPhone, with graphics and Twitter instant messaging capabilities was released on June 29, 2007.
- 2007 – The reality show “Storm Chasers” debuts on the Discovery channel on October 17, 2007, showing severe weather pursuit as entertainment.
- 2007 – On October 10th, in Dimmock v Secretary of State for Education and Skills Al Gore’s AIT moviewas challenged in a UK court, and found to have nine factual errors. It was the first time “science as movie” had been legally challenged.
- The 2008 Super Tuesday tornado outbreak was a deadly tornado outbreak affecting the Southern United States and the lower Ohio Valley from February 5 to February 6, 2008. With more than 80 confirmed tornados and 58 deaths, the outbreak was the deadliest in the U.S. since the May 31, 1985 outbreak that killed 76 across Ohio and Pennsylvania. It was widely covered live on US media.
- 2010 – A heat wave in Russia was widely reported by global media as being directly a result of “global warming”. Scientific research from NOAA released later in 2010 and 2011 showed that to be a false claim.
- 2011 – On January 4th, the Pew Research Center released a poll showing that Internet had surpassed television as the preferred source for news, especially among younger people.
- 2011 – March, notice of an Earthquake off the coast of Japan was blogged near real-time thanks to a USGS email message alert before TV news media picked up the story, followed by a Tsunami warning. A Japanese TV news helicopter with live feed was dispatched and showed the Tsunami live as it approached the coast of Japan and hit the beaches. Carried by every major global news outlet, plus live streamed on the Internet, it was the first time a Tsunami of this magnitude was seen live on global television before it impacted land.
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Compare the reach and speed of communications and news reporting at the beginning of this timeline to the reach and speed of communications and news reporting technology around the beginning of the 20th century. Then compare that to the beginning of the 21st century. Compare again to what we’ve seen in the last 10 years.
With such global coverage, instant messaging, and Internet enabled phones with cameras now, is it any wonder that nothing related to severe weather or disaster escapes our notice any more? Certainly, without considering the technological change in our society, it would seem as if severe weather events and disasters are becoming much more frequent.
While it is a fact that global warming and other issues are really happening, the frequency is no more frequent than in the past. So don't let lying COG false prophets frighten you with their stupidity.
The Great Bwana writes:
Weather is not as random as most seem to want to believe.
Are weather calamities totally random? Does God control the weather? What does the Bible say? Are there biblical prophecies for weather blessings and weather curses? Are those affected by hurricanes, tornadoes, tsunamis, droughts, and floods necessarily worse sinners than those not as affect? Does God use weather to try to get people to change or repent?
As regular readers of this page are aware, I have repeatedly warned of weather problems coming. Back in 2009, in my book, 2012 and the Rise of the Secret Sect, I wrote that the following was about to happen:
Odd weather patterns result in food shortages and natural disasters. Matthew 24:7The world is actually in a berserk transition, as the real age of peace is not yet here. It may be a period of chaos. It is the beginning of sorrows. Matthew 24:8
Since that was published, we have had record smashing heat and odd weather problems. These weather issues should serve as a wake-up call.
The Great Bwana wants you to know that all of these severe weather issues are because his god is pissed off that you are refusing to follow him and his improperly named "continuing" Church of "god". Shame on you sinners! Bobs the man! Heed his warning!
The Bible is clear that God controls the weather and various calamities, but wants people to heed His prophets:
6… If there is calamity in a city, will not the Lord have done it?7 Surely the Lord God does nothing, Unless He reveals His secret to His servants the prophets. (Amos 3:6-7)
The Bible tells of weather-related blessings for obedience and weather-related curses for disobedience. Weather is not as random as many people seem to want to believe.
The Bible shows:
30 God … commands all men everywhere to repent (Acts 17:30)
And weather-problems are one tool that God uses to urge people to repent (cf. Haggai 2:17; Amos 4:7-12). But most will not. Nor will most Christians as they should (cf. Revelation 3:14-18; see also The Laodicean Church Era).
Most will ignore weather changes and simply believe that weather changes all the time and the changes do not have to do with God or disobeying His laws.
Jesus taught:
7…And there will be famines, pestilences, and earthquakes in various places. 8 All these are the beginning of sorrows. (Matthew 24:7-8).8 For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. And there will be earthquakes in various places, and there will be famines and troubles. These are the beginnings of sorrows. (Mark 13:8)
The sorrows and troubles are just beginning and will get much worse.
Severe weather is consistent with the troubles that Jesus spoke of.
The Bible teaches that weird, severe, and odd weather patterns are part of the warning messages that God gives.
Are you paying attention to those messages?
Severe weather happens. It does. It however is not a sign for the self-appointed make-believe prophets of the COG to start spouting nonsense.
"While it is a fact that global warming and other issues are really happening "
ReplyDeleteMan made global warming is a HOAX. The ONLY reason this ridiculous LIE continues is because the average person is a TOTAL FOOL who believes the lying media and does not know how to get to the bottom of anything.
"Man made global warming is a HOAX. The ONLY reason this ridiculous LIE continues is because the average person is a TOTAL FOOL "
ReplyDeleteThe "total fools" I have known have all been COG members who get wrapped up in conspiracy theories. I bet you are one of the COG members now claiming that the earth is flat and we have all been lied to. What a moron.
2 Peter:
ReplyDelete3 Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts,
4 And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.
you folks are classic!
yes, man made global warming/climate change is a total farce...as is the whole "ozone hole" scam perpetrated on the world (which to this day has never been proven), but they got away with that one which gave them the momentum to move onto the man made climate change hoax.
ReplyDeleteit's all about money and control...just like the 2020 election fraud...
should be obvious...for those with eyes to see.
Keep telling yourself nothing has changed. Keep reassuring yourself it's only a cycle. Keep fooling yourself life will not be shaken. Go on Keep telling yourself God is happy with Christians on earth and only cares about what concerns you. Go on.
ReplyDeleteNicely done No2HWA. Most fundamentalists and certainly COG ministry and members are stuck in this Bronze Age view. The only difference is that we can cut Bronze Age types some slack as knowledge had not caught up with humans yet. Bob has no excuse but he truly is stuck in "God said it, I believe it. That does it for me" mode when of course it was really Bronze/Iron Age humans who came up with that to explain the inexplicable.
ReplyDeleteBob, in this mode, is forced to accept the Earth is flat, held up on pillars with a solid firmament above with windows that can pour out rain from time to time. He also must accept that "Let there be light" on day one comes before the creation of the Sun on day four and that the bat is a bird. However, I am sure these Bible truths are not helpful to Bob near as much as his belief in Baal the Storm God who conveniently evolved into YHVH of the OT that Bob loves so much.
Anyway, nicely done with the timeline of how our knowledge ( a bad thing in the COGs) has increased.
And too, "And women shall rule over them" is a wise crack about the so called leadership of men will be weak as women and not that literal women will get to be over nations as if that was a bad thing.
I'll take a Jacinda Ardern of New Zealand , OMG one of the Tribes!, over any American male Politician. The Nordic and Scandinavian countries do very well with women in high government and leadership positions as well. Personally, men have had their chance. Anyway, Bob gets that scripture wrong too.
Good article. It actually destroys the current global warming narrative.
ReplyDelete"Weather happens!" "Severe weather is (not) happening more frequently". " The frequency is no more frequent than in the past"!
Global warming may be a fact but it's "not the doomsday scenario" the Globalist and media would have us believe!!
Yes 11:05, some conspiracy theories happen to be true!
Today's communications such as smart phones explains how billions will see the dead bodies of the two witnesses and their resurrection.
ReplyDeleteAnd twenty years ago, you said it was due to television cameras. But that's OK, Bob still won't be one of those witnesses despite the wishes of his titanic ego.
DeleteAnd, as well as deniers, there are those who don't know the difference between weather and climate.
ReplyDelete"Weather refers to short term atmospheric conditions while climate is the weather of a specific region averaged over a long period of time. Climate change refers to long-term changes." - US Geological Survey
"The Bible is clear that God controls the weather and various calamities, but wants people to heed His prophets:"
ReplyDeleteGod is in control of the weather at all times, until Satan takes control. You can tell it is Satan taking control if the bad weather effects a believer.
"Severe weather is (not) happening more frequently"
ReplyDeleteI remember in Spokesman's Club when a teacher gave a speech on some events, possibly earthquakes, touted as "increasing in frequency and severity!" by GTA or some PT article. The speaker quoted stats to show there was neither increase in frequency nor severity. I don't remember his evaluation for that speech.
Hoover Dams Lake Mead is at it's lowest level since the 1930s. It will be interesting to observe whether this, and the general drought is only temporary, or a new pattern.
ReplyDeleteAs Stephen Colbert once said, “Truth has a well known liberal bias.”
ReplyDeleteWhen you tell someone why it rains or why certain storms are more severe in certain areas based on climate, the surrounding sea/water level it’s based on objective, observable, measurable facts.
Having God always pleased or displeased with an area and Him responding with more or less rain is based on opinion and is is subjective.
You’ve heard of fair weather friends
The COG is full of foul weather fiends always seeking gloom and doom and forever warning of a God who’s perpetually displeased.
Get some sunshine COG folk! Get out of that dark rented hall and enjoy the outdoors.
Rented hall 1:45 ? What country are you in?
Deletekeep your eyes open for the coming internet hack that will be so dangerous that the current (p)resident will have an excuse to hit the kill switch and shut down the net for our nation's good (and by that he means the conservative voices will be silenced)....once again, it's all about power and control.
ReplyDeleteSatan is so predictable...
it's all about money and control...just like the 2020 election fraud...
ReplyDeleteIs it possible that Trumpy actually lost the election. Ever since 1776 when our Republic was formed men have been voted in and out of office every 4 years. Maybe, better luck in 2024, if he chooses to run again. I mean, really, the country is already divided about 50/50. Maybe, a few swing voters decided that they didn't like the Trump shenanigan's. Let's see next election. Hopefully, people with brains will look at Jan 6 and wonder if they want a potential dictator back in office. Do you think he will leave after his last 4 year term if he is re-elected?
As far as the weather, it changes every day. Some years are worse than others, big deal :)
mortisrigori said...
ReplyDeleteGod is in control of the weather at all times, until Satan takes control. You can tell it is Satan taking control if the bad weather effects a believer.
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And too Cat 1-2 Hurricanes are just bad weather. CAT 3 to 4 is God trying to tell us all something. 5 is when God gives up and hands it over to Satan for the destruction of the flesh that our spirits can still get saved.
"keep your eyes open for the coming internet hack that will be so dangerous that the current (p)resident will have an excuse to hit the kill switch and shut down the net for our nation's good (and by that he means the conservative voices will be silenced)....once again, it's all about power and control."
ReplyDeleteOh? And when Biden leaves office and this doesn't happen, what will you say then?
PS: About Trumpy, I thought "Christians" did not participate in politics. The Bible says that God places authorities over us, I guess He did not want Trump in office for at least 4 more years :) And He says to "obey those who rule over us", I guess the Trumpy Christians need to obey and honor their President Biden for at least 4 more years.
ReplyDeleteBy the way, great point Dennis at 3:28. Satan can really screw things up, maybe that's why Trump did not get re-elected. Apparently God handed the election results to Satan, according to about 50 percent of the population we are going to Hell under Biden :)
And too Cat 1-2 Hurricanes are just bad weather. CAT 3 to 4 is God trying to tell us all something. 5 is when God gives up and hands it over to Satan for the destruction of the flesh that our spirits can still get saved.
ReplyDeleteI love how when things don't quite work out, God will just wipe us off the earth and start over. Kinda like the flood, no wonder Nimrod had a bad attitude.
Yet where is the great message of hope going out to the world. Who is showing the world their faults. Yet, we will be wiped off the earth, and humanity will not even know why. And that is supposed to teach us something. This part of the "plan" always seemed goofed up to me. Why would God punish humanity, when it does not even understand why they are being punished?
Oh, that's right, the GOG's will teach after the resurrection.
"PS: About Trumpy, I thought "Christians" did not participate in politics."
ReplyDeletewe don't participate, we observe, we spot patterns, we know Satan's ways, we know God is going to severely punish this country....and we know our alarms will be dismissed by the masses....
Re the 2 witnesses 8:21 with Christians being silenced on social media and Bible quotes being censored in YouTube comments it’s understandable why God will have to empower them to get His message across and back it up with punishing plagues against an increasingly anti-God, anti-Christ and anti-Bible world.
ReplyDeleteDon't forget the Dust Bowl.
ReplyDeleteThe Dust Bowl was the name given to the drought-stricken Southern Plains region of the United States, which suffered severe dust storms during a dry period in the 1930s. As high winds and choking dust swept the region from Texas to Nebraska, people and livestock were killed and crops failed across the entire region.
Also, in 1939 WWII started and it looked like Germany was going to win.
The first COG prophet was prophesying our defeat by the great beast power.
Then after they lost, for the next 20 years, that the Nazis had gone into hiding and would rise again.
The story has gotten stale and old, but the current generation of COG prophets is sticking to it, even though Germany has been committed to peace - there is only so much punishment a nation can take before it decides it has had enough.
Empires come and go, and then new ones arise.