Are more natural disasters happening lately?

Question

Is it just me or are more natural disasters happening in recent years? Are we (humans) causing these catastrophes by upsetting the Earth's natural balance with global warming, etc?

Or are we just more aware of all these events because they are widely broadcast?

Answer 1

Yes -repent now -the end is near and the prophesies are being fulfilled ;-)

Answer 2

Yes there are more natural disasters and yes, they are more broadcast.

  I'd rather not think about the causes right now....

Answer 3

It's not that there are a considerable amount of more natural disasters, it's the magnitude of the natural disasters. The average amount of natural disasters doesn't differ much from the early 1900s. What is different, is that they are getting more intense, which is an effect of global warming.

We also know more about each one becuase of so much media attention on the weather and global warming nowadays.

Answer 4

Yes, it seems so. But then, the answer is to be found in mathematics. If you toss a coin, the chances are that it'd be head or tail fifty-fifty. So, a progression would be: head-tail-head-tail, etc.

Not quite so. For that to happen is most unlikely. And if you toss say ten times head, the next toss doens't give you more than fifty percent chances to see a tail.

Likewise, the distribution of catastrophic events along time is most unlikely to be even. There is nothing magical or prophetical about it.

On the other hand, yes, we are upsetting the earth's natural balance. Global warming is only a tiny little bit of the pollution and over-population problem. It all started 13 thousand years ago when the gathering-hunter started growing his food and keep cattle. Until then, the earth could sustain an estimated 50 millions humans. Today we are ... 6.6 billions!