Is the recent increase in tornadoes the result of "global cooling" caused by less "global warming"?

Question

Are the actions taken in panic-driven response to the non-problem of global warming leading to more and stronger tornadoes? Will the global warming alarmists have the guts to admit their fault in this?

Answer 1

Yes, Global Climate Change (this term is more accurate than 'global ....') is correlated to an increase of intensity and duration of Hurricanes, cyclones, tornadoes, El Nino's and La Nina's. Since the industrial revolution there has been a marked increase of greenhouse gases and this has caused temperature changes resulting in weather and health problems. There is scientific consensus that affirms the reality and science of global climate change.

Climate change affects more than just natural disasters though. There are key-stone species that are being affected as well and without them the ecosystems of the ocean, forests, as well as Agriculture are weakening. This loss of integrity is showing problems for people all ready in many ways. We can have an impact in reducing global climate change right now!

More info here:

http://www.giss.nasa.gov/research/news/2...

http://jrscience.wcp.muohio.edu/climatec...

http://www.purdue.edu/uns/x/2007b/071203...

http://www.ucsusa.org/

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/29/scienc...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0hHlxaYN...

http://yaleglobal.yale.edu/display.artic...

http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0217...

My class lecture:

Rob McConnell states, “These findings are consistent with an emerging body of evidence that local traffic around homes and schools may be causing an increase in asthma. This is a potentially important public health problem because many children live near major roads.”

            Melanie Marty, chief of the air toxicology unit at the California Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment says, “What is undisputed is children are more vulnerable than adults, and higher exposure to toxic chemicals early in life increases the risk of cancer in adult years”.

Bad Air Day

Imagine you are microscopic, and that you are living in someone’s body filling a niche as part of their natural biology. And it has been a very comfortable and happy life for you and all of your ancestors. So much so that you have become a very successful organism in this body, and in certain ways have come to dominate in this person’s biology. Well, you are that organism and I want to tell you about how our biosphere, the earth’s atmosphere which has made us so successful and happy. And I also want to untangle the concepts of the greenhouse effect and global warming.

            The green house affect is a simple analogy, the earth is the plant and the panes of glass of a green house are compared as the earth’s atmosphere. And the plant in the green house thrives because the temperature within the green house is kept steady day and night and throughout the year.

In fact, the green house effect has meant everything to our survival. Atmospheric gasses on our planet that have naturally occurred have been fundamental to our evolution because green house gasses and some particles have kept the world an average temperature of 60 degrees Fahrenheit, between freezing and boiling. Without the green house effect most life on our planet would die, the world would be frozen with an average temperature of five degrees Fahrenheit. This information on Assembly Bill 1493 (Pavley) signed by the Governor on July 22, 2002.

I credit John Houghton’s’ book called Global Warming 2004, for the following information, and I am drawing from his list of figures and data from the reports he prepared for IPCC, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. The most important feature of the green house effect is the ability for the earth’s atmosphere to absorb and release radiation. Radiation is in two sub-groups, the first is solar (what we get from space), and the second is thermal (what the earth releases from its surface and the atmosphere).  

There are certain molecules in the earth’s atmosphere such as carbon dioxide, methane, and Clora flora carbons which warm the atmosphere because they absorb some of the thermal radiation emitted from the earth’s surface, but are slow releasers of radiation. I could compare these molecules to the way fat cells want to hang on to the fats we eat. It takes longer to burn off the fat then say a piece of broccoli. And just like too much fat can change our body, an excess of the atmosphere warming molecules can change the atmosphere. The most abundant greenhouse gas is water vapor, which reaches the atmosphere through evaporation from oceans, lakes, and rivers. Water Vapor and Carbon Dioxide both act as a black blanket on the earth in that they absorb greenhouse radiation, but both of these gasses emit much less radiation out into space and so keep the atmosphere warmer than it would be if these gases were fewer. Water Vapor and Carbon Dioxide cause the surface temperature to rise and the increase in temperature leads to more evaporation of water causing further increase of temperature. I will describe the effects of both water vapor and carbon dioxide in the greenhouse effect.

This can sound benign, but hurricane formation is a byproduct of the greenhouse effect. And an example of what can happen during convection of warm air rising from a warm tropical ocean during a storm, making humid air, and begin to rotate in converging winds. It takes a lot of energy for a hurricane to be created. This creates violent seas, stirring up even more water in the form of vapor. This vapor adds to the rotating winds, as the winds increase and organize they create they form a center rotation point of low pressure and when it reaches 74mph it is a hurricane.

An example of how the intensified greenhouse effect impact can be demonstrated is by looking at the work of MIT climatologist Kerry Emanuel from Nature publication; published online 31 July 2005, he says that since the 1970’s major storms have increased in duration and intensity by about 50%. He suggests these trends are due to surface temperatures of the ocean and global atmospheric temperatures during the period of the storm. National Climatic Data Center recognized 2005 as the first time on record that the Atlantic spawned four named storms by mid-July, as well as the earliest category 4 storms on record. Hurricanes are ranked on intensity of 1- 5. Emanuel predicts that there will be hurricanes higher on the scale. Just so you know Katrina hit southern Florida and was only a category 1 storm and picked up its intensity when it moved west into the warm gulf waters which were 2 or 3 degrees Fahrenheit above normal. This was reported by the AP, 2005. As you can see the insulating ability of water is very powerful. This is the major hurricane gradient credit to National oceanic and atmospheric administration (NOAA)

Show major hurricane gradient.

The need for balance between the radiation taken in and emitted out of our atmosphere is intrinsic to continuation on life on this planet. Basically, if our atmosphere couldn’t release its thermal radiation we would have to learn how to live in an oven or on Venus. Actually, Venus is a great example of how the earth would be if this exchange of radiation couldn’t happen here. Venus has a temperature of around 977 degrees Fahrenheit, which is about twice as high as my GE oven will go. So Venus is like the green house affect on anabolic steroids, Venus has such a dense radiation blanket that only one or two percent of the sunlight can enter its atmosphere and even less thermal radiation can escape. This ‘runaway’ greenhouse effect on Venus leaves it very hot and in perpetual dusk, a Kevorkian summer retreat for those who want a tan from the inside out. And there is nothing growing there. The good news is there is no possibility of these conditions occurring on earth due to the solar energy falling on Venus is twice of what falls on the earth because Venus is closer to the sun. However, the major reason Venus emits so little thermal radiation is because it greenhouse gas carbon dioxide conducts the radiation, suffocating Venus. John Houghton’s’ book called Global Warming 2004.

How do we distinguish the healthy greenhouse effect from global warming?  Frances Drake Global Warming, 2000, defines it as a term used to describe the change in annual average global surface temperatures, and related climatic changes, due to increases in greenhouse gasses most notably carbon dioxide, from anthropogenic emissions.  

The World Meteorological Organization (WMO), 2006 estimated that in 1750 there were about 281 molecules of carbon dioxide per million molecules of air (abbreviated as Parts per million, or ppm).  In 2006, the WMO reported that levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere had risen 377 ppm, an annual increase of 1.8 ppm.





When looking at the science and process of global warming John Houghton relies on the complete trend of weather pattern variation. Show global temperature scale, 1861-2003 He says, “Global Warming is the idea that greenhouse gases cause the climate of the earth to change globally”.

John Houghton pointed out that, since the 19th century the content of carbon dioxide in our atmosphere has inflated by 30% so far. Carbon dioxide is the leading factor of our trend of global warming; our excess of global warming gasses is like wrapping the earth in a black thermal blanket. As a result John Houghton says that, the average temperature of the earth has risen by an average of 1 Fahrenheit degree.

In our Sacramento valley concentrations of carbon dioxide and nitrogen oxide emissions as from heavy-duty diesel engines contribute to the formation of ground-level ozone, also known as “smog.” Smog is a contributor to global warming. The smog creates poor air. The Sacramento metropolitan air quality district, last updated 2005, informs us that Air quality in the Sacramento region does not meet the state and federal health-based standards for ground

Answer 2

it might be but i doubt it

Answer 3

I would argue that there isn't a connection between climate change and tornadoes.  They have existed long before we were recording them and they have existed through all of our warmer and cooler periods.  

And no, it is not the nature of any alarmist to admit fault.

Answer 4

Very unlikely we have had tornado's for years.

Answer 5

Alarmists will only read one side or listen to one perspective.

They are only parroting propaganda - Thus they have no blame like they accuse others of having.

If you want to follow tornadoes and how they form, just monitor this web page:

http://www.weather.unisys.com/satellite/...

You will see cold air from the north colliding with warm air off the Pacific from the equatorial region.

The real story on El Nino / La Nina effects and how we are headed into La Nina.  (thanks to the 'blank sun' - http://spaceweather.com/)

The Relationship of the PDO to El Nino and La Nina Frequency:

http://www.intellicast.com/Community/Con...

Answer 6

No and No and there is nothing to admit. Tornadoes are created in thunder storm cells. The warmer it is and the greater the difference in temperature along the storm front the more likely it is that tornadoes will form and be powerful.That has nothing to do with reducing greenhouse gases, just the opposite is true.

Answer 7

No,  it has little or no relevance what-so-ever.

Answer 8

GLOBAL WARMING IS CAUSING THE CHANGE IN ALL WEATHER PATTERNS INCLUDING EXPANDING DISASTERS.