NOAA says that they have no idea what they are talking about.
Violent tornadoes throughout the southeastern U.S. must be a front-page reminder that no matter how successful climate deniers are in confusing the public or delaying action on climate change in Congress or globally, the science is clear: Our climate is worsening.
More extreme and violent climate is a direct consequence of human-caused climate change (whether or not we can determine if these particular tornado outbreaks were caused or worsened by climate change). There is a reason it isn’t called global warming anymore. Higher temperatures are only one — and not the most worrisome — of the consequences of a changing climate.
Climate science tells us unambiguously that we are changing the climate and trapping more energy on the planet. Trapping more energy will cause more extreme events and worsen extreme events that would otherwise happen.
That explains why they have no weather on Venus, and why the weather is so bad in Hawaii and Florida.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/peter-h-gleick/tornadoes-2011_b_855032.html
I guess this episode officially qualifies the Huffington Post editors as a bunch of carrion eaters. “Carrion” being of course in this case the corpses of more than 300 people.
“Trapping more energy will cause more extreme events and worsen extreme events that would otherwise happen.”
I’ve heard that line a few times from various warmist flacks. Wouldn’t the “trapped energy” also contribute to the countervailing forces that diminish storms? The concept would probably make a little warmist head explode trying to figure that out.
Had I known that, I would have save swimming pools of gas during the past two decades by simply lighting up a fire underneath my car engine
Given the history of tornado catastrophes, one could argue that we were long overdue for a bad one, that they are actually much less frequent than they used to be.
The rantings of the alarmists are so predictable. Every time there is a weather catastrophe, the knee-jerk response is to not check the record book and blame global warming.