An Era of Tornadoes: How Global Warming Causes Wild Winds
JUL 8 2011, 2:35 PM ET11
Destruction in Missouri and elsewhere offers a taste of increasingly extreme weather. Part one in a four-part series on climate change.Too hot, too cold, too rainy, too dry, too windy. The operative word is “too,” and it is the exaggeration of normal weather events that defines the changing climate.
Close to home (for me, at least), Massachusetts towns have been hit with deadly tornadoes. In Joplin, Missouri, hospitalized patients were sucked out of emergency room windows. The consequences will remain with these communities and many others for decades, and the images will stay with all of us.
We need to stop global warming and go back to normal weather – like in 1925
The recent tornadoes were part of the new normal, caused by manmade CO2. At least the 1925 tornado was part of the normal normal.
Also, in 1925, there were no warnings, as opposed to today where there are warnings nearly every day, for every time there is a rumble of thunder.
NOAA History began in 1950