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
Seventy years later, climate reporters are just as dense as they were in 1938.
They believe whatever geogogists tell them.
A few months ago the looney left was warning of permanent drought in Australia. As usual, they had no idea what they were talking about.
ACROSS the great Lake Eyre basin that covers the heart of Australia, there is an environmental boom occurring, the kind not seen in decades.
This week the Herald travelled to the centre of the basin – Lake Eyre itself – to witness the landscape’s revival, driven by three consecutive years of heavy rains.
Normally a once-in-a-lifetime event, for the third year running Lake Eyre has filled with water flowing down the basin’s rivers from outback Queensland. By comparison, Lake Eyre filled just three times last century.
While much of the water has come to Lake Eyre – which is 700kilometres north of Adelaide and the lowest point in Australia – from the north, it has also been raining in central Australia. Whereas the average yearly rainfall is 120millimetres, 450millimetres fell last year alone in the Lake Eyre region.
The basin’s “boom cycle” has spurred an eruption of bird and mammal life. Throughout the basin there is now a plague of native long-haired rats. Confined to the Northern Territory’s Barkly Tablelands and western Queensland Channel Country in dry times, in a few short years the rats have spread half a continent to the southern reaches of the 1.2million square kilometre Lake Eyre basin.
Along the rivers that feed Lake Eyre, birds – such as the Australian pelican or the rarer Eyrean Grasswren – are in abundance.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel was due to address the gathering later on Sunday. In her weekly video podcast broadcast, she called for the Durban meeting to hammer out a global, legally-binding agreement to ensure that global warming, due to carbon emissions, be limited to 2 degrees Celsius.
She also said that voluntary emission reduction won’t cut it.
http://www.scientificamerican.com
Yea, I remember now – they forecast that heavy snow is a thing of the future and that hurricanes would diminish along the US coast.
The world would be a much happier place if animals didn’t kill other animals. Carnivorous behaviour was non-existent on Earth until evil capitalist Americans taught animals to eat other animals.
