Friday, June 22, 2012

Dishonest climate hoax promoter Michael Mann lends his name to an article that uses March tornadoes to argue that we need high-speed rail to prevent CO2-induced bad weather?

Credible evidence of climate change arises - Omaha.com

Meanwhile, tornadoes tore through Lincoln County (Neb.), tossing train cars around like children's toys. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration received 223 reports of tornadoes nationwide, when 80 tornadoes is the March norm. Southwestern Nebraska, Ohio and parts of the Southeast faced a string of tornadoes in early March that caused $1.5 billion worth of damage.

...There is a strong probability that climate change is influencing certain extreme weather events.

As leading scientists at the Big Ten universities — University of Illinois (Donald Wuebbles), Indiana University (Scott Robeson), University of Iowa (Greg Carmichael), University of Michigan (Joyce Penner), University of Nebraska (Robert Oglesby), Northwestern University (Kimberly Gray and Aaron Packman), University of Minnesota (Efi Foufoula-Georgiou), Penn State University (Michael Mann and Chris Forest), Purdue University (Paul Shepson), University of Wisconsin (Jack Williams), Michigan State University (Julie Winkler) and Ohio State University (Lonnie Thompson) — that's what we know.

...>> We can invest in building a Midwest high-speed passenger rail system that improves mobility, reduces pollution, creates jobs and pulls together the regional economy.

Flashback:  Across the country, May was quietest month for tornadoes in 60 years | Wichita Eagle

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