These reports do seem to becomming more and more frequent. How do you feel about this? Does it affect the way you travel and/or the way you plan your travels?
12th, 21st, or will doomsday be passed over again as a miscalculation when we reach 2013?
Along the subject of extreme weather changes, I thought I'd post this article:
Trees Cocooned in Spider Webs After Flood as something I would travel to see.
I prefer avoiding seasons and places prone to extreme weather, but have also had memorable, even funny, experiences while trapped in storms.
One record-breaking winter in Seattle, my friends and I decided that because we were from Colorado we could handle the laughable amount of snow and ventured out. A couple miles out, we learned that black ice is no joke in Seattle.
We turned around and tried over-and-over again to return to our accommodation, which sadly sat atop a hill. About a third of the way up any road, our van slid sideways and backwards. Fortunately, the streets were empty and, after countless tries, we made it back.
On a serious note, I agree with Mell that humanity will witness and experience disasters of greater proportions due to climate change and increased global media.
I think people should be required to watch nature and science-based programs once-a-week so they can learn the long-term effects and learn what mass changes need to be made to reverse the scary effects of increased CO2 and/or Nitrogen in the atmosphere.
Reply to this This is a La Nina period (Not el nino) so it is to be expected that there will be an increase in severe weather events - I stand by my original viewpoint on Climate Change in that it is a cyclic part of this oblate spheroid we live on. Humans are a pretty uninformed species to think that our activities alone are the cause of this - look through ice core and fossil records and you will see numerous cyclic patterns such as this. To throw a new curve ball - what if humans came along right at the 'flicking of the superchron' switch - a superchron being an extended period of climactic and geomorphic stability before/often coinciding with polar reversal.
Reply to this I agree about the cyclical, natural element of climate change, Cindy. At the same time, I guess I just can't disprove the possibility that things may change from a combination of natural cycles, human pollution and more factors we haven't a clue about.
I hadn't heard of the superchron (very cool and interesting), but had read something similar recently about polar reversal and how it may be tied to plate tectonics and the overall location of continents in the world. Fascinating stuff.
I guess we little specks called human beings just try to make sense of the world whether it's scientific explanations of cold weather increasing the ozone hole in the Antarctic, increasing chemical emissions, or magnetic fields altering the course or layout of our planet. Or as Nate mentioned, there's always 2012 doomsday warnings, too. 😊
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