Posted on 05/31/2019 11:08:29 AM PDT by EdnaMode
This has been a spring of angry weather across the U.S. as heat, flooding, and hail pummel the eastern half of the country. But along with the garden variety suffering, devastating tornadoes have also spread across the U.S. from Texas to Pennsylvania.
Twisters have ripped through communities across the U.S., killing at least three in Missouri last week, injuring nearly 100 on Monday in Ohio, and upending thousands of people’s lives. On Thursday, nearly 78 million Americans still faced increased odds of tornadoes touching down, according to the Storm Prediction Center, including major metro areas like New York, Washington, D.C., and Nashville.
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There is some research suggesting that these types of tornado outbreaks could become more common as climate change destabilizes the atmosphere. Signs that the rapid warming in the Arctic is messing with the jet stream are also a cause for concern. But attributing individual tornado outbreaks—let alone individual twisters—to climate change is still largely in the realm of highly speculative research. That’s not to say climate change doesn’t play a role in severe weather outbreaks like this one, but rather that scientists still have a lot to learn to firm up those connections. But there are clear indications that natural climate shifts did help shape this outbreak that researchers have been watching for weeks.
(Excerpt) Read more at earther.gizmodo.com ...
Thank you! The endless portrayal of weather as an emotional phenomenon is a pet peeve of mine too.
Weather is incapable of emotion. So is “Mother Nature”.
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There is some research suggesting that these types of tornado outbreaks could become more common as climate change destabilizes the atmosphere “
Here we go again...… “some research suggesting “ aka, - total B.S. !
Trump’s fault.
Cofefve.
Why not?
Drive out in the countryside. How many houses, developments, shopping centers and warehouses do you see where you would have seen nothing but plowed fields twenty years ago?
Back in 1999, a tornado crossing one of these fields would have uprooted crops and messed up a couple of fences, but that was not such a big deal. Now, that same tornado might destroy ten houses, blow the roof off a shopping center, or kill a half dozen people. It might do $10,000,000 in damage. It is simply a matter of those things being there, when they were not there before.
The economy is becoming more decentralized, every day. There is development in places where there was never development before. The tornadoes haven’t changed... We have.
It’s nothing but a freak of nature.
Similar to the fact that when a hurricane hits the coast anywhere from New England down to Florida and across to Texas. There are now houses, hotels, condos on every buildable stop on the Atlantic seaboard/Gulf of Mexico. Plus each one of those buildings is worth seven figures or more. This results in a lot more damage.
Why was there 148 tornadoes in 24 hours in 13 states back on April 3-4, 1974?
When we were supposedly going into another Ice Age
Destabilizes the atmosphere ?
These people are not scientist. They are clowns. Wake up before your entire house is iced shut one winter.
Excessive cold air. Really.
Because.. weather
Karl Rove monkeying with the weather machine again.
Cold air meets warm air - the results are more devastating when the cold air is colder than usual....
Gore's Law: Whatever negative can be attributed to Climate Change, will be.
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