Scientists claim Global Warming causing lack of tornados
Posted: Tue May 21, 2013 8:01 am
Those wacky liberals are funny. If there is a lack of tornados it's because of global warming, now that a tornado hit the same scientists are saying it's proof of global warming. :lol: :lol: :lol:
According the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, only 12 tornadoes touched down in the United States in 2012, shattering the previous July record low of 42 tornadoes recorded in 1960. Because radar technology in 1960 could not detect many of the smaller tornadoes that are detectable today, scientists believe the actual number of tornadoes that occurred in the previous record-low July 1960 was actually about 73. Accordingly, six times more tornadoes occurred in July 1960, the previous record-low year, than occurred in July 2012.http://www.forbes.com/sites/jamestaylor ... -activity/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Harold Brooks, a research meteorologist at the National Severe Storms Laboratory, says the lack of tornado activity is due to warm, dry weather in the American Midwest and a northerly tracking jet stream this year. These two factors have also reduced the number of strong thunderstorms that global warming alarmists claim are made more frequent and severe by global warming.
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration data show a long-term decline, at least since the mid-1970s, in strong tornadoes. This decline in strong tornadoes began precisely when global temperatures rebounded from a 30-year cooling spell.