Real Climate Science

http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/

University of Georgia researcher Thomas Mote, who co-authored the 2009 study that suggested fewer tornadoes in future, told the Star he has confidence in the hypothesis — but cautioned his projections of more stable tornado conditions don’t include Canada.

“I know it is ironic saying this after last night when we had the most extensive outbreaks in 40 years, but there is some reason to believe we will see drier, more stable conditions in the southern U.S. as a consequence of climate change,” said Mote, director of the university’s Atmospheric Sciences program

http://www.thestar.com/

Let’s think real hard about that.

Maybe ….. the ……. climate …… is ……. similar ……. to …….. 40 ………. years …… ago ?

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.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/

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

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Must be due to CO2.

http://greenland.cryocity.org/

Releasing a digitally processed, layered image was an incredibly stupid thing to do.

Any digital image is grossly inadequate, but they should have at a minimum released a raw image along with the “adjusted” version.

Looks like East Texas And Louisiana may get the worst of it.

Humidity forecast on NCAR’s WRF weather model with GFS forecast boundary conditions. Cold dry air to the west, and warm moist air to the east of the frontal boundary.

A top official at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) rejected claims by environmental activists that the outbreak of tornadoes ravaging the American South is related to climate change brought on by global warming.

Greg Carbin, the warning coordination meteorologist at NOAA’s Storm Prediction Center in Norman, Oklahoma, said warming trends do create more of the fuel that tornadoes require, such as moisture, but that they also deprive tornadoes of another essential ingredient: wind shear.

“We know we have a warming going on,” Carbin told Fox News in an interview Thursday, but added: “There really is no scientific consensus or connection [between global warming and tornadic activity]….Jumping from a large-scale event like global warming to relatively small-scale events like tornadoes is a huge leap across a variety of scales.”

Asked if climate change should be “acquitted” in a jury trial where it stood charged with responsibility for tornadoes, Carbin replied: “I would say that is the right verdict, yes.” Because there is no direct connection as yet established between the two? “That’s correct,” Carbin replied.

http://www.foxnews.com/

h/t to Marc Morano

http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/kids/scientists/clues.html

Ocean temperatures are below normal. Mountains have record snow. The 1880s-1910s had much worse forest fires. The US was hotter in the 1930s. There is no evidence that rain and snow patterns are outside of normal variability. There is no evidence that plant life cycles are outside the normal range of variability. Sea level has been rising for 18,000 years, and is currently rising very slowly around the US, if at all. Glaciers have been melting for 18,000 years. The worst hurricanes and tornadoes occurred more than 70 years ago. Severe tornadoes are on the decline. It has been almost 1,000 days since any hurricane hit the US.  ………………………….