Yet Another Natural Disaster

Indonesia has became one of the most recent victims of a terrible natural disaster. The article in the San Francisco Chronicle entitled "Indonesia hit by deadly tsunami, volcanic eruption" by Slamet Riyadi explains that:

The eruption of Mount Merapi on Tuesday killed at least 25 people, forced thousands to flee down its slopes and spewed burning ash and smoke high into the air on the island of Java.
Meanwhile, off the coast of Sumatra, about 800 miles (1,300 kilometers) west of the volcano, rescuers battled rough seas to reach the remote Mentawai islands, where a 10-foot (three-meter) tsunami triggered by an earthquake Monday night swept away hundreds of homes, killing at least 113 villagers, said Mujiharto of the Health Ministry's crisis center. Up to 500 others are missing.

Numerous Indonesians are either missing, dead, or injured. Combined from the two disasters, at least 138 people have been killed. Those who were not injured or killed had to evacuate their homes because of the volcanic eruption. It seems as though more and more natural disasters are occurring, and this cannot be a coincidence. I believe that global warming, creating harsher and more extreme weather is a huge contributing factor to the number of natural disasters that is occurring in the world. While movies that depict end-of-the-world scenarios, like 2012 may be somewhat far-fetched, unrealistic and exaggerated, they do have some grounds in science and simply exaggerate the truth of what may happen to us if we continue on our path of global warming.