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Has human activity made a given extreme event more likely?
“In these cases,” he said, “the answer is often yes.”
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12:13 pm
Climate weirding, they’re beginning to call it. The extreme localized weather events that result from a warming atmosphere.
For example – the extreme snowfalls you’ve been experiencing the past two winters, snowfalls my Mom doesn’t experience not even a hundred miles north and slightly west. The result of the North Atlantic Conveyor collapsing, because the glaciers on Greenland are melting. This has happened before (ice-dam above what is now the St. Lawrence Seaway), and from the geological record we can infer happening now.
3:08 pm
If this cloud cover doesn’t break soon I’m going to hurt someone.
4:21 pm
I grew up in a bit southwest of Milwaukee, WI, and I don’t recall tornadoes as being something we worried about. But in southwestern WI they were factors.
I also have the impression that tornadoes used to be seen more in open areas and, for whatever reason, seemed to stay away from built up urban centers.
I don’t now if my memory is correct — but tornadoes, strong, huge, fiercely powerful are sure hitting urban areas now.
Is that just a factor of more built up areas?? Or….?
5:10 pm
Scientists say they don’t know because they have no way of tracking them in unpopulated areas yet.
6:54 pm
Dr. Jeff Masters’ blog today on Wunderground.com. Scroll down for some stunning photos of incipient tornado and the one that hit Joplin.
He has a link to entry from 2008 about whether tornadoes are getting stronger and more frequest: Answer – don’t know. (Yet?)
6:57 pm
I messed up the links: Here’s for blog entry.
http://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/article.html?entrynum=1807
Here’s link to earlier post:
http://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/comment.html?entrynum=910&tstamp=200802
7:05 pm
Article from 4/29/11 on whether stronger, more frequent: Again, not known.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/04/29/tornadoes-climate-change-2011_n_855369.html