Posted on 08/08/2018 11:39:01 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
A tornado, albeit a weak one, touched down in New York City last Thursday, in the College Point neighborhood of Queens. A few days earlier, a stronger tornado was spotted near the town of Douglas, in central Massachusetts.
The storms were far from the region in the middle of the country known as Tornado Alley, where the bulk of the nation’s tornadoes occur. In a summer already marked by simmering heat that researchers have linked to global warming, is climate change also making tornadoes more common in places where they once were infrequent?
Though individual weather events are distinct from the more broadly changing climate, global warming does influence weather patterns. Still, any link between climate change and the frequency of tornadoes is far from straightforward, according to researchers.
Though it’s not possible to quantify to what degree, if any, climate change played a role in the tornadoes in New York and Massachusetts, researchers have some inkling into how climate change will affect tornadoes more broadly.
When scientists run climate models assuming global average temperatures of one degree Celsius (two degrees Fahrenheit) higher than preindustrial levels - where the Earth currently stands - some show an uptick in tornado frequency, but others do not. That disagreement, however, fades away at two degrees Celsius of warming, the threshold that the Paris climate agreement is intended to avoid. All the models agree that the frequency of tornadoes will increase by that point.
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One was reported here recently in VA. I grew up on the east coast! It’s a rare but not freak event!
Wow, it’s all so simple. Trump pulled out of the Paris Accords and now tornadoes are going to wipe out the East Coast. That’s a real shame. /s
The yearly average if tornados in New York is 9.6. What is so unique about this?
https://www.ustornadoes.com/2016/04/06/annual-and-monthly-tornado-averages-across-the-united-states/
I’m just sayin’
I’m hoping for Manhatan and Queens
Tornadoes have occurred in every state of the country. That is our history not the revisionist’s version.
Everything, and all it’s possible opposites, possibly sort of prove that climate change is increasing, unless something completely unexpected happens instead, which will prove that global climate change is coming, bringing with it more and less rain and lower and higher temperatures and death in buckets.
Ah yes, the big lie within the large set of big lies that comprise global warming "science". The consensus is fewer tornadoes with some exceptions like the Canadian prairie. Also the strengths of tornadoes matters a lot. The incidence of weak tornadoes simply does not matter. Yes, a tree limb could come down with a weak tornado but that limb would have come down the next winter.
Had one miss my house in Pa by 1 mile back in the mid 1990’s... snapped big trees right off their trunks. Scary for sure.
“May Be”
The most important words in modern media. They used to split the “opeds” from “news”. Now they don’t separate them but put phrases like “May Be” in the headline and hope the reader will (or won’t) figure it out. And employees who were once relegated to “reporting” (aka “journalist” or “reporter”) are now allowed to write “opeds” (aka “activist”).
When I was a kid we had one in upstate New York...in the 1960s sometime
Global warming is good..in 1960s it was the ice age is coming
I'm pretty sure practically every county has had a tornado at one time or another.
The LSM is probably trying to make up catastrophic weather "news" in lieu of the lack of hurricanes hitting the East Coast.
Tornadoes on the East Coast are a sign of the tornadoes on the East Coast.
Doesn’t matter if all the models agree.
Fer Pete’s sake! I grew up there and there were often small tornados upstate and the occasional waterspout that came ashore in Jersey or LI.
I remember camping in Connecticut with some friends next to Candlewood Lake (new at that time, early 70s) and in the middle of the night, a mini-tornado hit and overturned the at that time new picnic benches and ripped up the tents. It’s called the “lake effect.”
Inland, this depends on changes in humidity, and on the coasts, regular shifts in currents that have been going on for millennia. So please, nobody panic.
Quite a few East Coast tornadoes over the years. See the 1976 map from the heart of the Global Cooling settled science.
https://www.spc.noaa.gov/wcm/annualtornadomaps/
That was an F0. Touched down not too far from my house. Knocked down a tree but that was it. No biggie.
Wind!
The wind is blowing!
It’s the end of the world!
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