Joe Soucheray: Tornadoes haven't spiked — the population has - TwinCities.com

It is axiomatic that in any New York Times story about any aspect of the weather, it is only a matter of time before the reporter — they appear to be operating from a set of instructions — inserts the required admonition about global warming, which is now more frequently called climate change and might soon return to being called global cooling.

I mention the New York Times only because it is so reliably predictable.