BIBLE says that earthquakes, hurricances, floods, plagues, locusts, etc. are caused by God as punishment for sins SCIENCE explains that earthquakes are due to tectonic plate movements, hurricanes caused by ocean heat and coriolis effect, floods
normal effect of weather fluctations, etc..
Not exact matches
One might argue that the
effects of human - generated pollution have altered the
normal weather patterns, but that's another argument for another forum.
Observational data, evidence from field experiments, and quantitative modeling are the evidence base
of the negative
effects of extreme
weather events on crop yield: early spring heat waves followed by
normal frost events have been shown to decimate Midwest fruit crops; heat waves during flowering, pollination, and grain filling have been shown to significantly reduce corn and wheat yields; more variable and intense spring rainfall has delayed spring planting in some years and can be expected to increase erosion and runoff; and floods have led to crop losses.4, 5,6,7
I would also add that it is impossible to determine how much CO2 has affected warming, or what
weather effects might be the result
of such warming or just from
normal variation.
At this point, the
effects of natural fluctuations in water availability in the form
of extreme
weather events become even more potentially disruptive than
normal.
In the past the negative
effect of unusual
weather events was always temporary; within a year or two things would return to
normal.