As predictable as the timing of the tides, a left wing think tank blames global warming for the recent tornadoes. But I must admit, Think Progress cut to the chase to save time when future weather events occur. From the blog entry “Storms Kill Over 250 Americans In States Represented By Climate Pollution Deniers:”
“Given that global warming is unequivocal,” climate scientist Kevin Trenberth cautioned the American Meteorological Society in January of this year, “the null hypothesis should be that all weather events are affected by global warming rather than the inane statements along the lines of ‘of course we cannot attribute any particular weather event to global warming.’”
No matter what, it’s global warming! Does that mean I can credit global warming for the beautiful, cool days we have been experiencing here in the SF Bay area? Just lovely! Please.
Reality check: The powerful and tragic tornadoes were caused by the jet stream and/or a “perfect storm” confluence of conditions. From the story:
Brooks said a storm system coming in from the cold Rocky Mountains was on a collision course with a low pressure system bringing warm, moist air from the Gulf of Mexico — perfect conditions for a perfect storm. “The winds were strong out of the South at low levels and strong out of the West at higher levels and that meant storms became organized in such a way they were able to produce horrific tornadoes,” Brooks said.
So what’s triggering all these twisters? Some experts believe a lingering La Niña system in the Pacific has shifted the pattern of wind flows across the United States. Others blame an unusually strong jet stream.
But surely, this combination of weather conditions were caused global warming! Please, please, please? Sorry, hysterics. From the story:
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.
But that won’t stop the GWHs. And every time they do it, they hurt the warming alarmist’s cause.
April 29th, 2011 | 1:28 pm
Hey, “Carbon Pollution Deniers”! Yow, a new one! The left needs to keep coming up with nastier and scarier names for AGW skeptics to keep things fresh.
Personally, I can’t want until somebody labels me a “Climate Hitler”.
April 29th, 2011 | 1:56 pm
It’s either global warming or the attempt to de-fund Planned Parenthood.
I’ll have to wait for HW to enlighten us as to which is the cause.
April 29th, 2011 | 4:09 pm
Let’s join together with the Governor of Texas and say our prays…we’ll need them answered because our blindness.
April 29th, 2011 | 9:53 pm
Anti-environmental hysteria isn’t caused by corporate America! Not!
May 1st, 2011 | 8:50 am
Folks:
Heh. Nasty writer, there, throwing real numbers into a nice scholalistic discussion. Grin.
I am 72 years old, was born in Coleman, Alberta, which is in the Crowsnest Pass thru the Rocky Mountains. {call my rational time as 70 years, which is 2 and 1/3 times the 30 years used for “One climate Cycle”, eh?}. The provincial border, between Alberta and British Columbia _is_ the Continental Divide, from the 49th N Parallel of Latitude, and follows the Continental divide until it meets the 120° Longitude West line, then the provincial border follows the 120° Longitude W line to the 60th N Parallel of Latitude. I grew up on a mixed farm 8.5 miles SW of Claresholm, Alberta. I worked as a Seismic Surveyor for about 30 years, in western Canada, including about 10 winters in the Arctic and in the High Arctic, including once on the North Slope of Alaska. I have _seen_ Permafrost, and worked on top of the stuff, Winter and Summer. The Global Warming enthusiasts keep forgetting about the insulating properties of Muskeg, which is mostly moss and grasses. When the top foot, or two, of muskeg _melts_, it becomes a pretty good insulator, which gets better the drier it gets. The idea, of _all_ the Permafrost melting is silly, especially when I look at a Map of the permafrost in the Northern hemisphere, which includes interesting remnants of very old permafrost zones! Not much Methane has escaped from those zones, eh? A second part, of my skepticism, re “Anthopogenic Global Warming”, lies in the Norse Farm Fields, melting into view from under Greenlands’s ice. A third part, of my skepticism, is in the records of Churchly anathemas being spoken to advancing glaciers, in Europe, during the cooling that included the capture of the Dutch navy by a Spanish Cavalryman, who galloped across the harbor ice that held the ships immobile…
Sorry, none of my observations include hockey stick graphs, and none of my observations include adjusting, or _losing_ original Data Numbers. And I carried Two(2) thermometers, during my entire surveying Career, so as to have exact temperature readings (in the shade), for use in my calculations of my Starshots and Sunshots for azimuth (which I have done everywhere I worked, from the north end of Ellef Rigness Island, to some spots 50 miles south of Dar-es-Salaam!). The number of decimal places, for Temperature, used in the Anthropogenic Global Warming enthusiasts’ Graphs and reports, is astonishing, considering just how hard it _is_ to read a real-world thermometer to closer than 0.1° (F, or C, I have done both).
May 26th, 2011 | 10:18 am
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