Great Hailstones Blamed On Global Warming, But Alibi Exists

It’s summer in Iowa, and hailstones the size of basketballs are falling from out of the clear, blue sky. Theories about their origin include high-altitude formation, and toilet waste from commercial airplanes. But the hailstones, estimated at 50 pounds, are clear, too big for plane discharges, and the thunderstorms usually required for their formation were absent.

Called megacryometeors, this phenomenon can occur over coastal areas where there is sufficient atmospheric turbulence capable of holding ice in the upper atmosphere until it grows to be very large, but that doesn’t explain their accumulation over Iowa in the summer. Scientist, however, were quick to round up the usual suspect, and David Travis, a professor of geography at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, tentatively identified global warming as a possible culprit.

The theory is often placed in line-ups for adverse climate occurrences. Because global warming can be ambiguously interpreted (e.g. cooling and flooding are due to warming, but so are drought and heat) to cover unexplained weather phenomena, and because it is also politically advantageous for career building, global warming is becoming the go-to explanation whenever weather makes news. Hailstones as a phenomenon, however, have an established alibi for global warming.

There are hailstones from the past, and ones destined for the future, that defy the global warming explanation. For instance, when the Lord fought for Joshua against the Amorites:

And it came to pass, as they fled from before Israel, and were in the going down to Bethhoron, that the LORD cast down great stones from heaven upon them unto Azekah, and they died: they were more which died with hailstones than they whom the children of Israel slew with the sword.(Jos 10:11; emphasis added)

Then there is the future where God will again fight for Israel, and leave no doubt at to the cause, and the reason, for the coming hailstones:

And I will call for a sword against him [Gog] throughout all my mountains, saith the Lord GOD: every man’s sword shall be against his brother. And I will plead against him with pestilence and with blood; and I will rain upon him, and upon his bands, and upon the many people that are with him, an overflowing rain, and great hailstones, fire, and brimstone. Thus will I magnify myself, and sanctify myself; and I will be known in the eyes of many nations, and they shall know that I am the LORD. (Eze 38:21-23; emphasis added)

Certainly, things are about to heat up, but will the theory of global warming be seriously entertained in the eyes of many nations when they do?

(read about it in CBS News)