Is this another warning from MOTHER NATURE to man not to interfere with it?

Question

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/7106631.stm

REMEMBER THE STORY OF THE TITANIC, NATURE VERSUS TECHNOLOGY, THE LOOK OUT ON THE SHIP SPOTS AN ICEBERG, HE REPORTS IT, THE CAPTAIN SLOWS THE SHIP DOWN , THE RICH ON BOARD SAY THE TITANIC IS UNSINKABLE GO FULL STEAM AHEAD AND WALLOP.( NATURE WON AGAINST TECHNOLOGY.)
in reality the look out is the early warnings telling mankind to stop destroying the planet,the rich saying no, nature is a myth and they only think about making more money, nature on a collision course with humans and nature wins, no more humans left. i hope i made sense maybe i didn't put it in the way i liked but i hope you get what i mean.

ohh in the story of the titanic only the rich survived but in reality when they confront nature no will come out alive.

Answer 1

your right

Answer 2

Yea, it is like that Blue Oyster Cult song about Godzilla.

Psst, the rich had nothing to do with the demise of the Titanic. They were below deck eating gold and drinking lobster bisque the whole time. The crew made a series of Bloopers......

On the night of April 14, wireless operator Phillips was very busy sending chatty passenger's messages to Cape Race, Newfoundland, whence they could be relayed inland to friends and relatives. He received a sixth ice-warning that night, but didn't realize how close Titanic was to the position of the warning, and put that message under a paperweight at his elbow. It never reached Captain Smith or the officer on the bridge.

By all accounts, the night was uncommonly clear and dark, moonless but faintly glowing with an incredible sky full of stars. The stars were so bright that one officer mistook the planet Jupiter (then rising just above the horizon) for a steamship light.

The sea was, likewise, unusually calm and flat, "like glass" said many survivors. The lack of waves made it even more difficult to spot icebergs, since there was no telltale white water breaking at the edges of the bergs.

At 11:40, a lookout in the crow's nest spotted an iceberg dead ahead. He notified the bridge and First Officer Murdoch ordered the ship turned hard to port. He signaled the engine room to reverse direction, full astern. The ship turned slightly, but it was much too large, moving much too fast, and the iceberg was much too close. 37 seconds later, the greatest maritime disaster in history began. During that night of heroism, terror and tragedy, 705 lives were saved, 1502 lives were lost, and many legends were born.

Answer 3

OK first its not mother nature that caused the ship to sink it was the stupidity of the people in command of the ship they went to fast and ignored the reports that there was a iceberg in the area so no it wasn't mother nature or the ocean plotting against the people who put the ship in the water it is what is called an accident due to stupidity nothing more nothing less
and for the person that said we still don't know the extent of the damage yeah we do we know what happened right down to the why and how it sunk

Answer 4

It wasn't only the rich that survived the Titanic, read this list and you'll see it was a mix of all the passenger classes:

http://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/manifest.php?q=5

I'm not sure whether it's intentional or just your phrasing but you seem to be saying the titanic is a made up story and not an actual event.

I personally don't believe nature has a consciousness a la mother nature but I do believe that a lot of these disasters are of our own making and by treating the earth so callously we are in essence shooting ourselves in the foot.

Answer 5

I hear what you're saying. If the Captain had been doing a better job of watching due to the fog, that tragedy would never have happened. The ice burgs have been around for hundreds of years back then.

All the hipe about the ship never sinking didn't help eather.

With global warming both humans and mother nature will suffer. It's happening more and more that Mother Nature is thrown off course, thus all the flooding on one end and draught on the other. It's up to us to get Mother Nature back on course again.

Answer 6

Having completed college modules in Climate Change and Climatology I feel in some way informed in this regard. I'm not going to go through all the stats; they're all over the web if you're interested and if you genuinely want to educate yourself and come to an informed and not come to an agenda driven conclusion.

I would like to highlight some key points however. Man has been exploiting the earth's hydrocarbon resources (oil,coal etc)INTENSIVELY ONLY for the past two hundred years. This coincided with the Industrial Revolution which began approximately 200 years ago. Curiously, atmospheric CO2 concentrations have increased over the same time period.
Ice core data, which goes back hundreds of thousands of years show that CO2 concentrations were lower than they are now. That said CO2 output has fluctuated over time but the key issue is that these concentrations have never increased as rapidly as they have over the last 200 years.
The overwhelming majority of scientists now believe that this rapid increase in CO2 concentrations has contributed to increased global temperatures.
The central issue in the whole debate is one of altering the balance. We are approaching peak oil which means that we've extracted approximately half of the hydroCARBONS from the lithosphere, combusted them and released the remaining CARBON dioxide into the atmosphere on a massive scale.
It's therefore logical to assume that once the balance of gases in the atmosphere has been altered that there will be some sort of response. As CO2 is a greenhouse gas i.e.traps solar radiation, the results have been rapid temperature changes which results in ice melt at the Arctic and sea level change.

Climate change in itself will have both positive and negative impacts. In Ireland where I live, we're slowly realising that we'll have to build flood defenses around our major cities (we're an island on the edge of Western Europe after all) to avoid loss of valuable land.
On the positive side growing seasons have been significantly prolonged, as frost days have decreased by 80-90% over the last 20 years, so food production in my country at least, is on the increase. The real problem with climate change, apart form those who refuse to accept that it is fact, is that those most affected will be the most vulnerable. Already in the drought prone region of Africa, the Sahel, the rains that are the lifeblood of communties are becoming increasingly unreliable resulting in sporadic food shortages and ultimately famine. Climate change will affect the marginalised the most!

I don't have the time to go further into this but please ask yourself this: Do you think there is a correlation between the massive reduction of hydrocarbons in the lithosphere (the ground) and the increased amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere over the last 200 years? If so what could this altering of the balance mean? Could it be climate change?
Remember that every action (the intensive extraction of the most energy rich resource on earth) has an equal and opposite reaction.

Source(s):
IPCC, ICARUS-The Irish Climate Research Institute, over 95% of scientists and Bjorn Ljungberg-"The Sceptical Environmentalist" who NOW accepts CC but thinks its not worth or possible to combat its affects

Answer 7

There is no such thing as Mother Nature and therefore there can be no real warning. The Titanic obviously struck an iceberg on accident. The planet is a giant rock with an iron core that is thousands of miles thick. We couldn't put a dent into it. I am sure you are refering to the surface but I wish you would be more precise. Words do mean things.

Answer 8

Well, you got the Titanic story all wrong, thanks for yelling it too. The Titanic sank when it hit because the bulkheads designed to keep the ship afloat weren't in fact, watertight. (among many other reasons actually) Also if she had enough lifeboats everyone would have survived. You're going to get a whole lot of comments like this because YOU WERE YELLING AND IT IS ANNOYING. Your analogy, in other words, is flawed.

This is a financial disaster for the company, but they probably have insurance. Kinda creepy about the jellyfish though.

Thanks for warning us that the first signs of the pending apocalypse are the jellyfish. No one ever suspects the jellyfish.

Can't wait for all those thumbs down now. :\

Answer 9

The current situation with global warming has nothing to do with we the people, over the last several years the axis of earth has gone from it's normal of 23 degrees to 29 degrees and this means that the north is closer to the sun and there by warmer, ergo ice melt but the alarmists do not tell you about the increase in Ice at the south pole, that doesn't not mean that I think that we can't and haven't done things that could severely effect all of us we are the custodians of this planet and we are also responsible for Chernobyl, and Three Mile Island, we also destroyed Islands in the Pacific Ocean with nuclear bombs, all of this could came back to hurt us.

Another thing that man is doing, and that is he harvesting of fish to the point of no return. Leave man alone and he will manage to destroy all that he touches just for a dollar.

side note; The earth is returning to it's normal 23 degrees and now is at 27 degrees

Answer 10

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Answer 11

we dont know the full extent of the damage, but it is worldwide, whether its burning the rain forests [ which i think will be shown as worst effect ] or destroying the ozone its all money related, just cant get enough of the stuff, i agree with you, look at the latest endangered list, but when were gone nature will return, not a bad thing either.