Abrupt Climate Change

Archive for June, 2008

Iowa has been besieged with rain.  Cedar Rapids, Des Moines and many communities along the Mississippi.  Many fields in Iowa are still underwater and farmers say it’s too late to replant.  This can only add to higher food prices and higher fuel costs as corn is used to produce ethanol.

Unfortunately today more rain is moving out of Nebraska and into western Iowa.

It’s easy to blame much of what is going on in our environment on global warming.  But sometimes that isn’t the actual answer.  For example, in the United States this year there has been an extremely high number of tornadoes.  A record number in fact.

But is this global warming?  An alternate theory suggests that it’s only the La Nina effect causing violent weather.  For those pushing the global warming issues, this might almost be disappointing.  However for others, it’s comforting that the cause is attributable to the oceanic currents and how they flow.  This is something that will self correct.