Rational explanations for the Christmastime tsunami don't suffice for irrational people. First, those harboring a monomaniacal hatred for America somehow found ways to place blame upon the U.S. Now, environmentalists blame global warming for the catastrophe.

"No one can ignore the relentless increase in extreme weather events and so-called natural disasters, which in reality are no more natural than a plastic Christmas tree," explains the executive director of Greenpeace UK. Tony Juniper, director of Friends of the Earth, theorized: "Here again are yet more events in the real world that are consistent with climate change predictions."

But as writer Stephen Milloy points out: "Earthquakes aren't caused by the weather or greenhouse gas emissions; they're caused by tectonics--that is naturally moving geological faults. While tectonics may cause climate changes, the reverse is not true."

Are we really as advanced as we believe? Columbus tricked Indians into working for him and giving him food by threatening to take the moon away if they refused. The lunar eclipse that followed frightened the Indians into doing what he wanted. Environmentalists trick the deluded into altering their lifestyles by threatening the disappearance of the Earth if they refuse. Tsunamis, hurricanes, earthquakes, and other naturally occuring phenomenon frighten people into doing what they want.

A more likely candidate for blame might be India. A true conspiracy theorist would speculate that India had resumed underground nuclear testing and that's what caused it.

Or maybe s**t like this just happens sometimes.

I would have to hesitate to give environmentalists credit for having tricked "the deluded into altering their lifestyles." It might more accurately be an example of the blind fooling the blinded; the delusional leading the deluded; the apocalyptic scaring the depressed.
I do, however, find the India-testing theory plausible.

Underground nuclear testing? I doubt it.

The Tsunami disaster/other weather/seismic events
are no surprise to anyone who even casually reads
the scriptures. Israel, born in 1948 after the two
world-wide birth pangs of the first two world wars
is the timepiece of eschatology. Prophetic vision
from the O.T. and N.T. clearly predict (details) the 'reeling to and fro' of the earth, eclipses of sun and moon. Matthew 24 minutely relates the
timing of these events in the compressed time period at the end of the age. The accelerating pace of these events now is just one more feature
of a cataclysmic period into which we have been
entering during the last fifty years, or so. As a
bible scholar of fifty years, my opinions do not count. But the literal hermeneutic necessary to
mine these truths is not taught today in our
seminaries, gone the Classical study of Hebrew,
Greek and Syriac. So the many 'spiritualizers'
of the text are all the world hears, and they are
at sea in a tsunami of world events they cannot
explain or fit into their eschatology.

I didn't think that the 1948 founding of a militaristic and socialistic state by a group of Europeans (smack in the middle east and oppressive of the rights of the Christians and Muslims who had lived there for more than a dozen centuries) is a "timepeice of eschatology." Sounds rather superstitious.

Also, "Prophetic vision from the O.T. and N.T. clearly predict (details) the 'reeling to and fro' of the earth, eclipses of sun and moon." See, earthquakes and lunar and solar eclipses happen naturally and regularly throughout history. Has there been any sign that they have been accelerating?

If the lunar and solar eclipses deviate from their clockwork regularity and actually become more frequent, or if jewish people start converting en mass to the one true Church, then I'll start to consider it. But an occasional cataclysmic earthquake and a Jewish state in Palestine, don't make me think the end times are at hand. I agree with Homer: "s**t like this just happens sometimes."

I never thought of the an*logy between what Columbus did with his eclipse trick and what today's "environmentalists" are doing. Interesting point...