Deadly tornadoes happen almost every year in Oklahoma. It is the heart of Tornado Alley
24 Jun 1905 – A DESTRUCTIVE CYCLONE.
11 Apr 1947 – DEATH IN PATH OF TORNADO Australian Associated P…
18 Jun 1928 – DISASTROUS TORNADO. Sweeps Over Oklahoma. DEATH …
NCAR graph – newsweek_coolingworld
National Academy Of Sciences graph – Science News
Almost every major climate organization endorsed the 1970s ice age scare, including NCAR, CRU, NAS, NASA – as did the CIA.
The Windsor Star – Google News Archive Search
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Leaving the Southern Plains
The southern Plains experienced a terrible drought during the early 1930s. Intense heat accompanied the drought. In the summer of 1934, Oklahoma reached 117 degrees on July 24, the 36th day in a row that it had been above 100 degrees. Fields and rivers dried up, and clouds of grasshoppers ate what was left of the wheat and corn. According to one Weather Bureau scientist, the drought of the ’30s was “the worst in the climatological history of the country.”
Drought was not the only cause of the westward movement of farmers and sharecroppers from the southern Plains. When prices fell because of oversupply following the end of World War I, many farmers lost their farms and became tenants or sharecroppers. As more and more farms were cultivated with tractors, the tenants and farm laborers lost their jobs, because tractors were much more efficient. And as the soil was tilled and retilled, it lost its fertility. Worn out, it lay naked and unprotected from raging winds.
In 1934, windstorms ravaged the Plains states. The incredible storms sent clouds of dust as far as Chicago, New York, and Boston. In 1935, the storms became even worse. For six weeks in March and early April, it was unusual to see a clear sky from dawn to dusk anywhere in the Plains states. In Kansas, 12 consecutive days of dust storms raged in March. One Kansas resident wrote in her diary: “This is the ultimate darkness. So must come the end of the world.” But in fact, it got worse. On April 14—“ Black Sunday”—a deadly storm turned day into night. The storms resulted in more farms failing and more people out of work. Desperately poor, people began an exodus from the Dust Bowl.
Last year was the warmest spring on record in Oklahoma and the US, and had the lowest tornado count on record.
This spring is the coldest on record in Oklahoma and much of the US, and tornadoes are much worse.
Alarmists are trying to associate global warming and tornadoes, but there isn’t one shred of evidence to support that idea.
Tulsa, Oklahoma is the most dangerous city in the US for strong to violent tornadoes.
Dems are already blaming the deaths of Oklahoma children on Republicans, just as they did in Connecticut in December. It seems that there is nothing they like more than dead children to push their agenda.
Strong to violent tornadoes peaked during the 1970s in the US – during the global cooling scare. There is no reason to believe that tornadoes have gotten worse over time.
During the Dark Ages, ignorant politicians enthusiastically blamed bad weather on witches. Now their descendants blame bad weather on Republicans. The ancestors were probably slightly more intelligent.
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… What we did it was went in the night before and opened all the windows, I will admit, right? So that the air conditioning wasn’t working inside the room and so when the, when the hearing occurred there was not only bliss, which is television cameras in double figures, but it was really hot. … So Hansen’s giving this testimony, you’ve got these television cameras back there heating up the room, and the air conditioning in the room didn’t appear to work. So it was sort of a perfect collection of events that happened that day, with the wonderful Jim Hansen, who was wiping his brow at the witness table and giving this remarkable testimony.
Tornado deaths in the US have declined dramatically since 1920.
US Annual Tornado Death Tolls, 1875-present – NOAA Weather Partners
h/t to Marc Morano
