NOAA has updated their tornado graph through 2010. Jeff Masters said recently :
climate [may be] growing unstable and is transitioning to a new, higher energy state with the potential to create unprecedented weather and climate events.
We need to take action to stop the decline in landfalling hurricanes and severe tornadoes! They are a part of American tradition that is being lost.
http://lwf.ncdc.noaa.gov/img/climate/research/tornado/tornadotrend.jpg
We have gone from global warming, to climate change and now climate instability. The climate was no doubt extremely stable in 1925, when a single tornado killed more people that all the 2011 tornaodes combined, without hitting a major city.
Key points:
“..there is a substantial undercounting in the tornado database prior to 1990 and particularly in the earlier decades..”
“Looks like Jeff forgot to look at the U.S. historical tornado data set.”
“..we need to look at each type of extreme event, in different regional locations, and then interpret them in the context of the local historical records..”
I don’t think Masters has any concept of long term history; of course that’s going to make everything look “unprecedented”. Since Romm thinks Jeff is some kind of God, he doesn’t even question him.
Looking at the recent sunspot announcements we should be concerned about increasing extreme weather events. They are more likely to be linked to GLOBAL COOLING, which is currently just starting its progress and is likely to continue cold for a generation, if not longer.
Will warming alarmists ever wake up to this.
North-western USA temperatures have been low this year with massive snowfalls etc. These lower temperatures and warmer air form the Gulf of Mexico generate increased differentials and thus give rise to the more extreme weather / tornado events that we have seen recently. As Global Cooling proceeds the differential – Poles to the Equator grows and one can expect more weather extremes not less.
A warmer climate is likely to be more BENIGN but a colder climate is TRULY DEADLY.
From http://judithcurry.com/2011/05/26/the-futility-of-carbon-reduction/#more-3330 Brian H | June 1, 2011 at 6:22 am |
At a rough guess, the odds of warming being benign are about 80%, and of cooling being benign about 0.01%. The odds of warming occurring are about 10%, and of cooling occurring about 60%. The ratio of the riskiness is thus [(1-.8)(.1)]/[(.6)(1-.9999)] = .02/.00006 = 333. So it makes 333X more sense to prepare for cooling disaster than for warming.
They get away with their fairy tales because they know journalists won’t check the facts.