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Al Gore: Scientists won't 'let us' connect climate to tornadoes - Darren Goode - POLITICO.com

Former Vice President Al Gore lamented today that scientists “will not let us link record-breaking” tornadoes in Oklahoma and elsewhere to climate change because of inadequate record keeping on the twisters.

“But when you put more energy into a system, it gets more energetic,” Gore said at an environmental event in Washington hosted by Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse.

Mt Rainier - Up to 9 inches of snow next 4 days

For a world where kids weren’t supposed to know what show looked like…

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Polar Bear Population Growing Despite Declining Sea Ice – and that’s not happening either!

It seems like everything is at an all-time high except the temperature.

CO2 levels are at an all-time high, there are more Polar Bears than ever, there is more Antarctic Sea Ice then there has ever been and even more Arctic sea ice than we’ve seen in a decade. The only thing that is not going up is the temperature. We are experiencing one of the coldest years on record.

Republican demands Obama apologize for funding climate change research | The Raw Story

In a speech on the House floor Tuesday, Representative Jim Bridenstine (R-OK) called on President Barack Obama to apologize to the people of Oklahoma for funding climate change research.

The freshman congressman claimed global temperatures stopped rising a decade ago. He said variations in the Earth’s temperature were the result of solar output and ocean cycles.

“Even climate change alarmists admit the number of hurricanes hitting the U.S. and the number of tornado touchdowns have been on a slow decline for over 100 years,” Bridenstine said.

“But here is what we absolutely know,” he continued. “We know that Oklahoma will have tornadoes when the cold jet stream meets the warm Gulf air, and we also know that this President spends 30 times as much money on global warming research as he does on weather forecasting and warning. For this gross misallocation, the people of Oklahoma are ready to accept the President’s apology and I intend to submit legislation to fix this.”