Villabolo, I got a story to tell you about Joseph and global warming. It goes like this. . .
In the book of Genesis, there is the story of a young man named Joseph, in which it follows the ups and downs of his life. In the tale his own brothers, who were jealous of the attention he received from their father, sold Joseph as a slave. He ends up in Egypt as a household slave.
There is a misunderstanding between Joseph and his master, who is led to believe that Joseph is having an affair with his wife, and he is thrown into prison. At this time, the Pharaoh of Egypt had a puzzling dream. He dreamt that he was standing by the Nile and out of the water came seven fat and healthy cows. These cows were followed by seven thin and withered cows. Suddenly, the seven thin cows ate the seven fat cows.
In the same night, the Pharaoh had a second dream. This dream displayed seven ears of grain that were ample and of a good quality. Next to them sprouted seven ears of shrivelled and wind-beaten grain that, like the first dream, consumed the ample grain.
The Pharaoh believed that his dreams were trying to warn him about something to come, and called out all the dream-interpreters in the land to unravel the message hidden in his dream. Whilst Joseph was in prison, he became well known for his skill in interpreting dreams, and after the Pharaoh had no success in finding the meaning of his strange dreams; he called for Joseph to find the answers.
When Joseph was presented with the dream, he prayed to God for the meaning. After receiving the answer from the Lord, he presented the interpretation to the Pharaoh. The dream meant that there would be seven years of plenty and prosperity, followed by seven years of famine. The famine would consume the land and would leave the country in a dreadful state.
The Pharaoh was shocked by this news and started to panic. A famine is technically described as an excessive and prolonged shortage of food. The famine in Egypt in the story of Joseph is a ‘physical famine’, which means that it was caused by the environment’s natural hostility to Egypt’s agriculture. Drought is the most common cause of famine, and it was an unpredictable drought and a sudden change in the state of the climate that would cause the famine in Egypt.
Drought and famine cause serious damage to a county’s agriculture, economy, and the health of the inhabitants. So, it is understandable that the Pharaoh was in a state of shock and panic. To calm the Pharaoh’s down, Joseph had come up with a plan. He suggested that the Pharaoh should select a man to plan and prepare for the famine. The preparation would involve taking a certain proportion of the produce made in the seven years of prosperity and storing it up in reserve for the seven years of famine. The Pharaoh appointed Joseph to this position.
Joseph’s plan turned out to be extremely successful, and when the famine arrived, Egypt was saved. They had even saved enough food to support the neighbouring countries also hit by the disastrous famine. Many people travelled to Egypt to ask for food to help them through this difficult period. The mass of travellers even included Joseph’s own brothers, who had originally sold Joseph as a slave.
Joseph’s efforts to plan for the drought and the famine, is one of the earliest ever recorded, and his strategy has certainly been adopted throughout the generations. It has become the most effective way of coping with the unpredictability of drought and famine.
The Bible stories can often provide many useful lessons in morality and virtue, but also gives us valuable tips on how to deal with the instability of nature and our atmosphere.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/features/bible_drought.shtml
You can find other mythology stories about meterology "Gods" and weather here:
http://www.articlesbase.com/science-articles/weather-gods-and-ancient-meteorology-541179.html
or you can Google it or whatever yourself.
Far as I'm concerned, global warming is a theory and is not a fact. My children's children will read about it in the Farmer's Almanac.
