Deadly winter tornadoes not uncommon
With yesterday’s outbreak of deadly tornadoes, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has issued a statement saying that deadly winter tornadoes are not a rare occurrence. So all of you proponents of anthropological global warming just slow down and look at the facts before you start blaming humankind for attributing to these storms. Here is what NOAA has to say about the global warming/deadly tornado connection:
Big differences in temperature help fuel tornado development by whipping up strong winds aloft where masses of cold air and warm air meet. This year’s cold northern temperatures and warm air in the U.S. south created good conditions for tornado formation, Brooks said.
Does climate change play any role in the frequency or intensity of tornadoes? Brooks said no, adding that the historical record of tornadoes is insufficient to let scientists figure out what impact, if any, climate change has.
“Our current physical understanding of how tornadoes work (is that) some of the ingredients that are important to make a tornado will increase in a greenhouse-enhanced world, some of them will decrease and the balance is unknown,” Brooks said.
UPDATE:
Here is a story about how John Kerry has already begun blaming these tornadoes on global warming.
