Supercell forms in Wyoming – video

Last updated on: May 19, 2014 at 2:40 pm by Joanne Brokaw

Supercell forms in Wyoming – video 2014-05-19T14:40:08-04:00 Joanne Brokaw

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VoO89cqDgJU

I generally stay out of the global warming debate. I’m not a scientist and I wouldn’t try to argue science or research with people smarter than I am.

But when I saw this video today I had to share a thought:

I get that the temperature of the earth is changing. I get that climates shift geographically. I get that weather patterns go wonky every few or hundred or thousand years. What I don’t get? The notion that man is so powerful that he can cause it to happen.

Check out this video of a super cell forming over Northeast Wyoming. According to the National Weather Service:

“Supercells are highly organized storms characterized updrafts that can attain speeds over 100 miles per hour, able to produce extremely large hail and strong and/or violent tornadoes, downdrafts that can produce damaging outflow winds in excess of 100 mph – all of which pose a high threat to life and property.”

The power behind that storm isn’t man made. There’s nothing SUVs or carbon footprints do to cause that storm. It’s power of nature. Of creation. Of forces larger than man or beast.

Yes, man leaves his footprint on the earth, from pollution to conservation. And yes, those footprints alter our water supplies and our farming ability and our health and safety. (I think of that every time I see million dollar homes built on the sides of mountains sliding away in mud slides.)

But affecting the weather, climate change, or global warming and cooling? Those have been happening for millennia. The earth warms, the earth cools. Rain falls, rain doesn’t fall. That man would assume he’s so powerful as to make them happen? I find it a bit amusing.

Then again, I believe in a God who created it all, who created man and nature – the storms and the calm. And I’m reminded of that power every time I see video like this.

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