Friday, May 03, 2013

Tornado spike in 2011 attributed to climate change. So what to make of this year’s tornado drought? | SciGuy | a Chron.com blog
In a NOAA blog post tornado expert Harold Brooks notes that during the 12-month period from May 2012-April 2013 there were just 197 tornadoes rated EF1 or stronger. This is, Brooks says, apparently a record low for U.S. tornadoes in a 12-month period.
Twitter / Revkin: Note to those saying "It's ...
Note to those saying "It's irresponsible not to mention climate change" in '11; same for ongoing tornado drought now?
Twitter / ClimateDepot: Saudi America: ‘The US for ...

Saudi America: ‘The US for the third month is the world’s largest oil producer’

Twitter / RichardTol: I submitted results twice. ...
[regarding the John Cook "survey"]  I submitted results twice. The papers were all about "if warming, then..." rather "warming because ..." or "warming or not".
This strikes at the heart of the whole global warming "consensus" argument.  A very large percentage of "consensus" scientists haven't actually done any independent work to prove that CO2 causes bad weather; they're just trusting others to do their thinking for them.

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