Is this due to global warming or the Mayan prediction?

The recent devastating earthquake and tsunami in Japan and the one in China some time ago adds to the list of several such major natural calamities in 2010 and 2011. We’ve already witnessed tragedies such as in Haiti (Earthquake Jan 2010), in Chile (Earthquake and Tsunami in Feb 2010) in China (Earthquake Apr 2010), in Eastern India (cyclone/ tornado in Apr 2010) and in Iceland (eruption of volcano Ejyafyallakjokull in Apr 2010)and Japan (earthquake and tsunami in Apr 2011). All these have brought forth disastrous misery to hundreds of thousands of people of those regions and it seems the worst is not yet over.


In addition, we cannot ignore the extreme weather conditions the world over. The summer of 2009 saw heat waves across India and Europe which caught people unawares and took many lives. Many parts of central and northern India also faced drought conditions. 2010 had extreme monsoons too. And 2011 also had very hot summers and quite a lot of rains as well. The world was not spared in the winter of 2009-10 as well. India, Europe and the USA were subject to excessive cold waves.


Why is all this happening to us? Are these the after effects of global warming? Or is the Mayan prediction of the world ending in Dec 2012 coming true?