If the Earth could talk, it would scream bloody murder.

For the past three weeks, the most newsworthy commodities have been the weather and natural disasters. We have experienced a catastrophic earthquake in Haiti, mudslides in southern California, tornadoes and exorbitant amounts of rain in Phoenix, and a local snowstorm that sent this city into a state of emergency.

I’m well aware earthquakes, rain, tornadoes and snow are all part of the natural happenings of the planet, but all of them occurring within three weeks of each other and to such an extensive degree is just too bizarre.

In the midst of all the crazy local weather, I kept thinking the movie The Day After Tomorrow had finally come true, and I was destined to die slowly of starvation as massive quantities of snow consumed my dorm. My flair for the dramatic seemed ludicrous at first, but the more I considered the madness around me, the more convinced I was: These disastrous events signal the coming of the apocalypse.

Al Gore is going to have the last laugh. For years, he’s attempted to educate the public about the climate crisis. His documentary, An Inconvenient Truth, focused on how global warming could result in extreme weather conditions, including increases in both severity and frequency of natural disasters. Is any of this sounding familiar?

I may have only been alive for 18 years, but I’ve witnessed, through the media, my fair share of natural disasters, and it seems to me they keep getting worse every time. The 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami was one of the deadliest in recorded history, New Orleans hasn’t recovered from Katrina and Haiti may take at least 10 years to rebuild. Then again, the world is ending soon, so why bother?

Many people pegged Gore as just another green-loving hippie trying to scare people into being more environmentally friendly. Doubters figured his claims were either too outrageous or the current generations would never experience the consequences of this climate crisis in their lifetimes. We probably should have listened to Gore.

If recent events haven’t convinced you Gore has been right all along, there is no hope for you, and you’ll probably be the first to go when the weather finally triumphs over us all.

All we can do is watch as the Earth slowly wastes away. Every time it rains, we will wonder if this is the storm to end all storms.

Maybe if we’re lucky, we won’t have to wait two more torturous years for the end to finally come. World ends in 2010? Sounds about right to me.