Drought Brings Fewer Tornadoes

Iowa is on pace to see the quietest tornado season in nearly 50 years, thanks to the drought.

State Climatologist Harry Hillaker says this summer's extreme dry conditions have helped keep tornadoes at bay.
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Hillaker says the tornadoes that have hit Iowa this year were fairly weak.

Louisville starts efforts to adapt to harsher climes | The Courier-Journal | courier-journal.com

Deadly tornadoes, freak windstorms, crippling ice, torrential downpours, unrelenting heatwaves and flash flooding that swallows streets and homes — Louisville’s recent weather has become a roller coaster of extremes.
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Whether it’s an example of climate change or just temperamental Mother Nature, the evidence of more extreme weather is mounting in Louisville and across the nation. And city officials and business leaders are taking their first steps to prepare for what some scientists predict could be even dodgier consequences ahead.

Global warming 'stopped in 1997' | UK News |

...critics say the Met Office put this research onto the Internet without publicity - in contrast to the attention it gave to figures released six months ago which reinforced the case for global warming.

Those figures went up to 2010 - the hottest year on record - and showed a continuing warming trend.
Campaigners yesterday slammed the Met Office tactics and questioned the Government's drive for costly green energy such as wind turbines which add about £100 a year to domestic energy bills.

Dr Benny Peiser of Lord Lawson's Global Warming Policy Foundation said: "It is quite scandalous that the Met Office is misleading the public.
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"Though we are in a period of accelerating greenhouse gas emissions the climate is not responding in the way that climate models have predicted.

"Global warming is not a looming disaster. We need to reassess the Government's climate change policies such as the drive for renewable energy which is extremely expensive..."