Climate Change is Real! By David Barrows, API

Many people are climate skeptics. They do not understand the science/mythology. But Climate Change is real!

Garden of Eden

The first example of climate change in Abrahamic religions is the Garden of Eden. Followers of the Latter Day Saint movement believe that after Adam and Eve were expelled from the Garden of Eden, they resided in a place known as Adam-ondi-Ahman, located in present-day Daviess County, Missouri. It is recorded in the Doctrine and Covenants that Adam blessed his posterity there and that he will return to that place at the time of the final judgment in fulfillment of a prophecy set forth in the Bible.

Noah's Ark

Noah's Ark is the vessel in the Genesis flood narrative through which God spares Noah, his family, and examples of all the world's animals from a world-engulfing flood. The story in Genesis is repeated, with variations, in the Quran; most scientists agree that such a ship and natural disaster would both be impossible. Some researchers believe that a real (though localized) flood event in the Middle East could potentially have inspired the oral and later written narratives; a Persian Gulf flood or a Black Sea Deluge 7,500 years ago has been proposed as such historical candidates.

Major ice ages

An ice age is a long period of reduction in the temperature of Earth's surface and atmosphere, resulting in the presence or expansion of continental and polar ice sheets and alpine glaciers. Earth's climate alternates between ice ages and greenhouse periods, during which there are no glaciers on the planet. Earth is currently in the Quaternary glaciation Individual pulses of cold climate within an ice age are termed glacial periods (or, alternatively, glacials, glaciations, glacial stages, stadials, stades, or colloquially, ice ages), and intermittent warm periods within an ice age are called interglacials or interstadials.

There have been at least five major ice ages in Earth's history (the Huronian, Cryogenian, Andean-Saharan, late Paleozoic, and the latest Quaternary Ice Age). Outside these ages, Earth seems to have been ice-free even in high latitudes; such periods are known as greenhouse periods.

Dinosaur Extinction climate change theory

Sea levels fell in the final stage of the Cretaceous. Changes in climate would have occurred due to the disruption of wind and ocean currents. These marine changes, combined with volcanism and an extraterrestrial impact, may have caused mass extinctions. Sixty-six million years ago, an asteroid or comet smashed into Earth off the coast of Mexico just as tens of thousands of volcanoes were busy spewing ash and gas into Earth’s atmosphere. Did the Chicxulub asteroid impact and its aftermath kill off the dinosaurs? Or was it the volcanoes’ effect on turning Earth’s atmosphere toxic? For the first time, scientists have shown that the asteroid impact’s after-effect was a “permanent winter” that the dinosaurs simply couldn’t survive. Climate change pushed dinosaurs into a period of decline 10 million years before the 12-km-wide asteroid which brought about their extinction fell to Earth, a new study claims.

What happened in the world in 536 AD?

In 536 A.D., much of the world went dark for a full 18 months, as a mysterious fog rolled over Europe, the Middle East, and parts of Asia. The fog blocked the sun during the day, causing temperatures to drop, crops to fail, and people to die.

What were some of the factors that made 536 AD the worst year ever?

Temperatures in the summer of 536 fell to 2.5 degrees Celsius. Because of this, the weather initiated the coldest decade in the past 2300 years. Snow fell in China, crops failed all over the world, and people starved to death. Even the Irish chronicled their total lack of bread from the years 536-539.

Extreme weather events of 535–536, thought to have been caused by an extensive veil of dust in the atmosphere, begin in the Northern Hemisphere. They continue until the following year, causing unseasonal weather and crop failure worldwide. It is possible this is caused by the eruption of a volcano: Krakatoa, Ilopango in El Salvador (Central America); in North America; or in Iceland.

In 2018, medieval scholar Michael McCormick nominated 536 as "the worst year to be alive" because of the extreme weather events probably caused by a volcanic eruption early in the year, causing average temperatures in Europe and China to decline and resulting in crop failures and famine for well over a year. Other researchers have noted additional adverse events during the year, including a mysterious fog, possibly due to the volcanic eruption.

Greatest natural disasters

  • On Oct. 11, 1138, the ground under the Syrian city of Aleppo began to shake. The city sits on the confluence of the Arabian and African plates, making it prone to temblors, but this one was particularly violent.. The resulting death toll is estimated at around 230,000
  • A catastrophic magnitude 9.1 earthquake struck undersea off the west coast of Sumatra, Indonesia, on Dec. 26, 2004. The quake created a massive tsunami that killed approximately 230,000 and displaced nearly 2 million people in 14 South Asian and East African countries. Traveling as fast as 500 mph (804 kph), the tsunami reached land in as little as 15 to 20 minutes after the quake hit, giving residents little time to flee to higher ground. 
  • Damages from the earthquake and tsunami are estimated at $10 billion dollars. This event is considered the third largest earthquake in the world since 1900, and its tsunami has killed more people than any other tsunami in recorded history,
  • On July 28, 1976, the Chinese city of Tangshan was razed to the ground by a magnitude 7.8 earthquake, suffering staggering casualties of over 240,000. While this was the official death toll, some experts suggest this number is grossly underestimated and that the loss of life was likely closer to 700,000.
  • About 250,000 people died when the temblor hit the Byzantine Empire city (now Turkey and Syria) in May, 526. Malalas attributed the disaster to the wrath of God and reported that fires destroyed everything in Antioch that the earthquake did not.
  • "The Haiyuan earthquake was the largest quake recorded in China in the 20th century with the highest magnitude and intensity," It was reportedly a 7.8 on the Richter scale. However, China today claims it was of magnitude 8.5., the death toll could have been as high as 273,400.
  • The Coringa cyclone made landfall at the port city of Coringa on India's Bay of Bengal on Nov. 25, 1839, whipping up a storm surge of 40 feet (12 m); about 20,000 ships and vessels were destroyed, along with the lives of an estimated 300,000 people.
  • The 1881 typhoon that hit the port city of Haiphong in northeastern Vietnam This storm is also believed to have killed an estimated 300,000 people. 
  • The catastrophic magnitude 7.0 earthquake that struck Haiti just northwest of Port-au-Prince on Jan. 12, 2010, ranks as one of the three deadliest quakes of all time. As many as 3 million people were affected by the quake. Initially, the government of Haiti estimated fatalities stood at 230,000 people, but in January 2011, officials revised that figure to 316,000.
  • The storm surge, combined with a lack of evacuation, resulted in a massive death toll estimated at 300,000 to 500,000 people. it caused an estimated $86 billion in damages.
  • The deadliest earthquake in history hit China's Shaanxi province on Jan. 23, 1556. the temblor reduced a 621-square-mile (1,000 square kilometers) swath of the country to rubble. An estimated 830,000 people died
  • The Yellow River (Huang He) in China When heavy rains swelled the river, it spilled over these dikes into the surrounding low-lying land, inundating 5,000 square miles (12,949 square km), and an estimated 900,000 to 2 million people lost their lives.
  • Excessive rainfall over central China in July and August of 1931 triggered the most deadly natural disaster in world history — the Central China floods. The flood inundated almost 70,000 square miles (180,000 square km) and turned the Yangtze into what looked like a giant lake or ocean. The number of dead may have been as many as 3.7 million people.

It is apparent that climate change is real due to volcanoes, ice ages, etc. Of course, none of this has to do with human activity on this planet.