Another unpredicted tragedy - many lives lost. Source

An Earthquake off the Indonesian island of Sumatra causes a Tsunami which killed many peoples living at the the edge of the Indian Ocean, including Sri Lanka, and others.

Yet the Global Warmists are totally certain they can predict the future.

In this case it is the earth and none of us in the geoscience disciplines predicted this - but the demagogues in climate science disagree because their knowledge of geoscience is so developed that they can predict the future, including climate.

Wait until their lackeys in the media start reporting their dissemblances.

Update: Bloggers (Tim Blair for example) had a comment that no warning was made to the target areas on the other side of the Indian Ocean.

This is due to presumably a lack of funding to earthquake science etc, since most science funds are being directed to "Global Warming". So in an extremely peverse way, one could blame the death toll on the Global Warming lobby and the IPCC.

Update 2: Was it a Meteor impact?

Last week Indonesia was startled by some loud bangs which have since been attributed to a meteor striking the earth in the atmosphere above Indonesia. Some eyewitness accounts mention  or here .

CNN news just mentioned (WST 1313 hrs Perth) that the largest tsunami headed eastwards from the epicentre.

This strong suggests that this was no simple earthquake, but in all likely hood an impact by a small meteor off Sumatra yesterday.

Was it associated with the previous "noises" heard a week ago? The connection is tenuous and being Christmas most Western warning systems would have been on skeleton staff.

The last time such an impact occurred in the 15th Century between Australia and New Zealand, and described by Bryant in his book "Tsunami - the underrated hazard ". That impact probably destroyed the Moas (as the Maori's insist) and affected the eastern coast of Australia.

Update 3:

Latest news increased the loss of life but the most telling account was CNN's questioning why Sri Lanka, as an example, could not know of the impending disaster.

Given that the tsunami's only needed some 2 hours to reach Sri Lanka from the epicentre off Sumatra, one might think that would have been an impossible request.  The truth is that funding for geoscience world-wide is compromised by more, politically urgent causes such as man-made global warming. The geosciences are also allied to the Green's great Satan, mining.

The principal reason so much life has been lost in the circum-Indian countries is

1. A lack of seismological warning instrumentation

2. The adoption of political systems which actively promote consumption of capital,

3. The misdirection of funds towards ill-conceived political goals.

In Short, the tragic loss of life from this latest natural catastrophe, would have been far less if funding for the geosciences, in preference to climate, had been greater.

Putting it bluntly, the Greens and their fellow travellers must accept responsilibility for the loss of life on December 27, 2004 from the tsunamis of that day.