Global Warming or Warning

I have a thought that has been rolling around in my head for some time. I live in Buffalo, NY where we experience some fairly extreme weather. The crazy thing is that it seems like the weather has been more extreme in every other part of the country than it has been where the weather is supposed to be extreme. So, here's my thought...up until the last decade, weather extremes have historically often caused the question..."is God trying to get our attention?" or maybe a variation of the question would be "are these weather anomalies a sign of the end times?"...now the problem that has come out of these questions in the past is that too many people have predicted that they were living in end times and when the rapture or any other major apocyliptical event did not happen, it was one more blow to those that raise that type of question..I am not so much interpreting our weather conditions as a sign of the times as I am that global warming has really caused the end times questions to almost vanish..to take this thought a little further, I think it is very realistic to speculate that as more and more people beging to accept the global warming argument, people will become less and less alarmed no matter how severe, extreme, or exceptional the weather conditions.....so as droughts, famines, earthquakes, tsunami's and the like speed up in frequency, people will stop even wondering if these are the "birth pains" that Jesus predicted in scripture....they'll just attribute it to global warming.. don't get me wrong, I have no doubt that we have truly jacked up the environment that God made us stewards over and most of the things that harm the environment have been things that we have created out of sinful motives driven by greed, convenience, and laziness. As believers we should be on the front lines of environmental stewardship......but, I am also concerned that there is something else at work here that could easily facilitate an environment where life is going on as usual even as God is litrally shouting through nature to get our attention.