BBC NEWS website (Jan 5 th , 2014) carried the headline: ‘US faces record low temperatures with fresh cold blast’. Reuters website (Jan 4 th , 2014): ‘Midwest, Northeast brace for Arctic blast, record lows’. ABC News website (Jan 4 th , 2014): ‘Public schools close in Midwest due to record breaking temperatures’. My take: In recent years, weather patterns across the world are taking more severe and dangerous turns. This has caused more and more damage to human and material resources. What can we make of these trends? Should we be paying more attention to the weather changes and to what it portends for our earth? The earth’s natural forces of wind, water, clouds, and tectonic plates are roaring in rage, who’s listening? Wikipedia.org in discussing global warming, ‘the rise in the average temperature of earth’s atmosphere and oceans since the 19 th century and its projected continuation’, added that ‘scientists are more than 95% certain that more than half of the obse...
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