A top official at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) rejected claims by environmental activists that the outbreak of tornadoes ravaging the American South is related to climate change brought on by global warming.
Greg Carbin, the warning coordination meteorologist at NOAA’s Storm Prediction Center in Norman, Oklahoma, said warming trends do create more of the fuel that tornadoes require, such as moisture, but that they also deprive tornadoes of another essential ingredient: wind shear.
“We know we have a warming going on,” Carbin told Fox News in an interview Thursday, but added: “There really is no scientific consensus or connection [between global warming and tornadic activity]….Jumping from a large-scale event like global warming to relatively small-scale events like tornadoes is a huge leap across a variety of scales.”
Asked if climate change should be “acquitted” in a jury trial where it stood charged with responsibility for tornadoes, Carbin replied: “I would say that is the right verdict, yes.” Because there is no direct connection as yet established between the two? “That’s correct,” Carbin replied.
h/t to Marc Morano
Steve,
this is obviously a mistake. He is from the government agency tasked with tying everything to Global warming. Remember these religious cultists can’t say anything against the religion or they are excommunicated. Unlike this site where every post is fair and balanced only looking at the facts with no bias.
I expect you to out him as a Morano plant.
I keep hoping that sometime you will say something intelligent.
got burned real bad on the hurricane thing……………
What!! this can’t be true
Someone from NOAA telling the truth!! That is shocking.
Not really. Chris Landsea blasted Trenberth for his IPCC hurricane fantasy.
And as I recall, I totally defended Landsea’s action on your blog.
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