The Earth as Gaia—Is a Living Earth the Cause of All the Recent Tornadoes?

The tornadoes that have wreaked havoc in the South—and more recently, Joplin, MO—killing hundreds and leaving a debris field akin to a battlefield, have people wondering what is going on.

The highly controversial global warming theoryhas been brought up andThe Earth as Gaia—Is a Living Earth the Cause of All the Recent Tornadoes?  put to rest by most scientists. Yet there is the question of just why the earth is throwing its fury.

There could be many reasons, from the El Niño and La Niña climate cycle to other seasonal and global shifts that just happen to be occurring at a maximum this year.   Yet there is another equally controversial theory that has been spoken about throughout history. The ancient Greeks looked at the earth as a living being called Gaia.