Hysteria: We thought we'd try to head off the
sure-to-come claims that man-made global warming caused the deadly Midwest
storms over the weekend. But we were too late. The alarmists got to work early.
A swarm of tornadoes and severe thunderstorms blew through
at least a dozen states Sunday, killing, maiming and destroying.
Entire neighborhood blocks are gone, trees have been torn
out by their roots, hundreds of thousands have no power and stunned survivors
try to slog through the recovery and restoration of their lives.
Making this tragedy even worse are alarmists who try to
score political points on the lost and devastated lives.
Before the winds had hardly died down, Jeffrey Sachs, an
economist who was once a United Nations adviser, tweeted Monday about the
"weather tragedy in Illinois" and said, as if he were speaking from
Heaven, that "research shows human-induced warming is likely to lead to
more severe thunderstorms."
Sachs, now director of the Earth Institute at Columbia
University, also appeared on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" on Monday
claiming, "we're causing this because there are more and more of these
storms, because of the way that humanity is changing the world's environment. .
..
"This kind of event," said Sachs, who clearly
missed the news about early snows in Washington, Colorado and Western Canada,
"will happen more frequently unless we change the way we run our energy
system."
As Sachs hectored America, Secretary of State John Kerry was
telling the U.N.'s climate change conference that global warming "is
happening now. ...
"There isn't a more important" duty, he said, than
"fulfilling our responsibility to the future inhabitants of our
planet" and moving ahead on the "ambitious goal" of fighting
global warming, which he called a "crisis" that "waits for no
one."
Meanwhile, Twitter was alive with less-prominent believers
who thought it was a good time to both perpetuate the man-made global nonsense
and make snarky comments they thought would make them look clever.
Surely there are more tweets coming. Expect many well-known
figures who themselves don't well know anything about climate to offer their
pithy insights.
Such a response has become an automatic reaction: a super
storm wrecks and ruins lives and property, and the protectors of the
man-is-changing-the-climate faith have to blame modern human life for the
disaster.
And as much as it is automatic, it is also wrong.
While we admit that November tornadoes are not common,
Sunday's unusual burst is not the biggest since 1950. Jeff Masters of
Wunderground.com wrote on his blog that the "outbreak will probably rank
as the fourth most prolific November tornado outbreak since 1950," the
year modern tornado records were first kept.
The fact there were more November storms in 1992, 2001 and
2002, brings up a material question:
If global warming worked the way its believers tell us it
does, wouldn't we be setting storm records every year — or almost every year —
rather than merely approaching the landmark year of 1992, when there were 95
November tornadoes?
Overall, tornadoes are down in our modern era of greenhouse
gas emissions.
Just last year, Roger Pielke Jr., professor of environmental
studies at the University of Colorado-Boulder, said that "over the past
six decades, tornado damage has declined after accounting for development that
has put more property into harm's way."
And earlier this year, Pielke also documented that there
were 38 F5/EF5 category tornadoes from 1953 to 1982, while there were only 20
from 1983 to 2013.
It's time the myth that our CO2 emissions are causing more
severe and more frequent storms be retired with the Greek and Roman gods.
Source: Investor's Business Daily, 11/18/13, http://news.investors.com/ibd-editorials/111813-679648-sunday-tornadoes-in-midwest-not-caused-by-climate-change.htm#ixzz2l3J0WwsW
Comments:
It’s much more likely the HAARP weather modification program
under DOD is responsible for the tornados. Our government is desperate to
maintain the global warming hoax, so why wouldn’t our government have HAARP
create these storms, so they can blame them on global warming ?
Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader
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