As wildfires began to sweep across Southern California's bone dry residential areas, destroying hundreds of homes, Georgia's governor Sonny Perdue was declaring a similar state of emergency for his state. He explained, "We are experiencing the single worst drought in Georgia history," (Atlanta Journal-Constitution, October 21, 2007).

Lake Lanier, Georgia's major reservoir for up to five million people, has only approximately 80 days of available water left. Though stringent water-conservation restrictions have been imposed on many of Georgia's counties for most of the summer, the water level in Lake Lanier has continually dropped.

Georgia is not the only state affected. "At the end of the month [September], about 43 percent of the contiguous United States was in moderate to extreme drought, the National Climate Data Center said Tuesday" (Randolph E. Schmid, AP Science Writer, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 10/16/07).

"For the first time in more than 100 years, much of the Southeastern United States has reached the most severe category of drought, climatologists said Monday, creating an emergency so serious that some cities are just months away from running out of water. For the better part of 18 months, cloudless blue skies and high temperatures have shriveled crops and bronzed lawns from North Carolina to Alabama ... this drought has broken every record in Georgia's history" (Brenda Goodman, New York Times News Service, 10/16/07).

Many had hoped that the hurricane season would bring storms that would replenish reservoirs currently at or near all-time lows. But the rains have not arrived. Like several states in the West, over one fourth of the Southeast is in an "exceptional" or worst drought category with little hope of relief as it faces a dry fall. The situation is dire, worsening each week.

To address the crisis, Georgia officials may close businesses that use large amounts of water. This will create employment problems for hundreds, maybe even thousands, of Georgia's citizens.

Mayors are pleading with homeowners and businesses to take extreme measures to conserve water usage. Restaurants are no longer serving water to their customers unless asked; some even charging for it.

Former Vice President Al Gore and the IPCC recently received the Nobel Peace Prize "... for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change ..." according to the official Nobel Peace Prize website.

What measures are needed to address climate-related emergencies not only in America but also globally? Is it possible that the gravest issue is not entirely physical but spiritual?

Apparently most of the world has forgotten that the Creator of the heavens, the earth and mankind can regulate not only rainfall but all climate related conditions. Notice His requirements, in His own words, for actively regulating rainfall and other weather conditions for our good.

"If you walk in My statutes and keep My commandments, and perform them, then I will give you rain in its season, the land shall yield its produce, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit" (Leviticus 26:3-4).

"But it shall come to pass, if you do not obey the voice of the Lord your God, to observe carefully all His commandments ... that all these curses will come upon you and overtake you ... And your heavens which are over your head shall be bronze, and the earth which is under you shall be iron. The Lord will change the rain of your land to powder and dust; from the heaven it shall come down on you until you are destroyed" (Deuteronomy 28:15, 23-24).

If we blame only the biological problems of pollution and toxic emissions and fail to address the greater spiritual issues of our rejection of God and His laws, are we not asking for even worse weather disasters in the months and years ahead?

Are you aware that specific Bible prophecies warn America, Britain and the nations that were the former colonies of the British Empire of dire punishments that will fall on them if they continue to ignore and reject His commands? Those punishments include unfavorable weather, floods and drought—and much more.