Expect wild and dangerous weather in late 2014 because of a very big El Niño. Storms, floods and droughts are expected around the Pacific, which will wreak havoc and death.
An El Niño is a splurge of warm water in the Pacific Ocean that starts near Indonesia, spreads eastwards and rises to the surface. It takes rain from Asia and Australia with it and dumps it in the Americas. Historically, El Niño’s have unleashed floods in the Americas and drought in South-East Asia and Australia.
“The tropical climate system is primed for a big El Niño,” says Axel Timmermann of the University of Hawaii in Honolulu. And the effects can be deadly. The El Niño in 1997-98 killed 20,000 people and did $97 billion of damage.
A large ball of warm water about 150 meters under the surface is crossing the ocean right now. And it is huge. It could also cause a further rise in food prices.
“We already know what happens when a big El Niño hits,” says Zafar Adeel of the United Nations University in Hamilton, Canada. While some areas are better prepared for weather disasters, Central and South America are more vulnerable. While India has invested in water storage, it is not clear how Asia or Australia have prepared.
“Satan works through the elements also to garner his harvest of unprepared souls. He has studied the secrets of the laboratories of nature, and he uses all his power to control the elements as far as God allows… It is God that shields His creatures and hedges them in from the power of the destroyer. But the Christian world have shown contempt for the law of Jehovah; and the Lord will do just what He has declared that He would–He will withdraw His blessings from the earth and remove His protecting care from those who are rebelling against His law and teaching and forcing others to do the same. Satan has control of all whom God does not especially guard. He will favor and prosper some in order to further his own designs, and he will bring trouble upon others and lead men to believe that it is God who is afflicting them.” Great Controversy, page 589