Increase in Natural Disasters? Prophesied?

This thread is a continuation of Pat Robertson on Natural Disasters in the In the News forum.Can it be shown that natural disastes are increasing since 1948 and does this fulfill biblical prophesy and suggest the imminent end of this world.I suggest that an increase in natural disasters must be shown before a claim can be made for the accuracy of biblical prophesy.AbE: Moved here by AdminBen

Ok, buz please supply your evidence of an increase in ALL natural disasters. I haven't seen it yet. The only possible support you may have linked to is your news/livescience links that referred to the CRED database. I played around with that database and prior to the 1960s at least, a large portion of data is missing. You can not make a comparison with only partial data in one dataset.Jar's referral is perfectly acceptable. If an established cycle or cycles is shown than an upsurge in activity is normal and predictable, and not some new phenomenon related to biblical prophesy. I agree. I don't agree that it is biased moderation. The problem stems from two totally different mindsets and what kind of data someone will accept. One side seems quite willing to accept reports on data from anywhere that reinforces their views and to not dig too deeply into what the actual data says, while the other side is use to using the actual data themselves and not relying on someone else's interpretation. But that is off topic for this thread.

Buz, the NOAA site that webpenny is getting its list from does NOT have anything to say about frequency. This is something webpenny threw together with the list from NOAA that does not list all major disaster hurricanes either before OR after 1948.And you have been given frequency data.... here is a link I gave back in message 258 of the prior thread...U.S. Hurricane Strikes by Decade (Text)

Yes buz, I have never denied that webpenny got their data from that NOAA page. What I have a problem with is what webpenny is claiming from that data. The NOAA site NEVER says it is a list of major landfall US hurricanes...only webpenny says that, and in fact three of the hurricanes on that list DID NOT make US landfall. The webpenny site is simply wrong. It took an incomplete list, that did not state the criteria for making that list...and MADE UP the rest.Please admit that the webpenny site misused the NOAA page it lists as reference.