Quotes about Extreme Weather from the world's top natural health / natural living authors
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 "The past quarter-century has been remarkable for its storminess, abrupt climatic swings, and extreme weather. The great storm of October 16, 1987, the worst since 1703, toppled over 15 million trees in southeast England alone and left a swathe of destruction in northern France, Belgium, and the Netherlands. Eighty percent of low-lying Bangladesh was inundated by floodwater in 1988. Tens of thousands of people drowned in a tropical cyclone that hit the same area in 1991. Hurricane Andrew devastated Florida in 1992 and caused $16 billion in damage."- Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.) "Every year extreme weather strikes some part of the globe. El Nino seemed like one of those irregular, purely local incidents that crop up year after year, sometimes causing little more than a ripple in the coastal fisheries or a localized flood on Peruvian north-coast rivers. Some years, however, the Christmas Child descended with wrathful vengeance: Ocean temperatures rose so high that all the anchovy moved away and millions of seabirds perished. In 1925 the weather went crazy. In January fisherfolk at Talara in extreme northern Peru reported unusually warm sea temperatures." - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.) "He added confidently (and possibly inaccurately): "Unless we act we can expect more extreme weather in the years ahead."3 The vice president was drumming up support for passage of a $6.3 billion program to reduce emissions of global warming gases and can be excused his dire prediction. One of the benefits of the recent El Ninos is that they have brought the issue of global warming into the public spotlight. Many people believe the fate of our civilization is closely tied to our ability to curb global warming." - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.) "Cereal agriculture could be extremely productive in warmer, Mediterranean climates, but in northern Europe extreme weather and the resulting crop failures brought severe cereal shortages. The agriculture that had flourished during the Medieval Warm Period was ill suited to the Little Ice Age. The solution to endemic famine came in the form of an ugly tuber first domesticated high in the Peruvian Andes. The highland Andean Indians grew at least three hundred varieties of potatoes. Like maize and tobacco, potatoes were carried to Europe by Spanish conquistadors." - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.) |
 "It's an absolutely amazing fact, but due to the protective properties of Astaxanthin, these algae can stay dormant for more than forty years without food or water, suffering in the summer sun or in the winter cold; yet when conditions are appropriate and there is food and water and no extreme weather, the algae will go back into their green, motile stage.
Astaxanthin can be found in plants and animals throughout the world. It is most prevalent in algae and phytoplankton, but it also can be found in a limited number of fungi and bacteria."- Bob Capelli, ASTAXANTHIN: Natural Astaxanthin, King of the Carotenoids (Get the book.) |
 "In susceptible people, a trigger such as a cold or sore throat will cause it to flare up. extreme weather conditions such as cold weather and sunlight can also cause a reaction. It is thought that there is a tendency for certain families to be susceptible to cold sores."- Marshall Editions, 1000 Cures for 200 Ailments: Integrated Alternative and Conventional Treatments for the Most Common Illnesses (Get the book.) |
 "The frequency of storm-surge events depends on the frequency of the extreme weather that generates them. One study by Germany-based researchers projected that by the time world temperatures approach three degrees, more extreme cyclones will track across western Europe, with more storm wind events striking the UK, Spain, France and Germany. A second study foresees intense cyclones becoming more frequent worldwide by the second half of the century, even whilst the overall number of storms decreases."- Mark Lynas, Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet (Get the book.) |
 "If these plants can adapt so well, maybe they also can help us adapt to the current extreme weather changes we are facing globally.
Some adaptogens are found in rugged mountain regions (American ginseng, cordyceps, rhodiola, and shilajit). Varieties of cordyceps have been found at altitudes of about 15,000 feet, and rhodiola grows in Siberia at altitudes of 10,000 feet above sea level. Rhodiola is an example of a plant that has adapted to harsh environmental conditions, including high altitude, extreme cold, low oxygen, and intense irradiation from the sun."- David Winston, RH(AHG), and Steven Maimes, Adaptogens: Herbs for Strength, Stamina, and Stress Relief (Get the book.) |
 "We have had a decade of increasingly extreme weather, especially heat and drought. The Great Plains of the United States may be among the losers in the global warming derby. The American public is already faced with the task of radically reorganizing the way farming is done, as the industrial model fades into irrelevance and the giant combines stop running on the mega-fields of the big corporate farms. The conditions ahead may be such that America will be challenged to produce enough food for its own domestic needs, never mind exporting to the starving masses in other nations."- James Howard Kunstler, The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century (Get the book.) |
 "The result, of course, is imbalances that create floods, droughts, and extreme weather problems.
Nature is also mimicked in our own bodies. In May 1998, a short newspaper article in the Daily Mole in England reported that medical scientists, in conjunction with aeronautical engineers, at the Imperial College in London,7 were able to observe that the blood swirls as it rushes through our arteries. In other words, Nature has even designed our internal water systems with vortexes and internal twists in our arteries to mimic and recreate the vortical energies."- Gabriel Cousens, M.D., Spiritual Nutrition: Six Foundations for Spiritual Life and the Awakening of Kundalini (Get the book.) |
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