A link between climate change and Joplin tornadoes? Never.
source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhCY-3XnqS0&feature=player_embedded
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Caution: It is vitally important not to make connections. When you see pictures of rubble like this week’s shots from Joplin, Mo., you should not wonder: Is this somehow related to the tornado outbreak three weeks ago in Tuscaloosa, Ala., or the enormous outbreak a couple of weeks before that (which, together, comprised the most active April for tornadoes in U.S. history). No, that doesn’t mean a thing.
It is far better to think of these as isolated, unpredictable, discrete events. It is not advisable to try to connect them in your mind with, say, the fires burning across Texas — fires that have burned more of America at this point this year than any wildfires have in previous years. Texas, and adjoining parts of Oklahoma and New Mexico, are drier than they’ve ever been — the drought is worse than that of the Dust Bowl. But do not wonder if they’re somehow connected.
If you did wonder, you see, you would also have to wonder about whether this year’s record snowfalls and rainfalls across the Midwest — resulting in record flooding along the Mississippi — could somehow be related. And then you might find your thoughts wandering to, oh, global warming, and to the fact that climatologists have been predicting for years that as we flood the atmosphere with carbon we will also start both drying and flooding the planet, since warm air holds more water vapor than cold air.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhCY-3XnqS0&feature=player_embedded
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/a-link-between-climate-change-and-joplin-...
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An op-ed by Bill McKibben, author and founder of 350.org, narrated and illustrated by Stephen Thomson of Plomomedia.com
It is far better to think of these as isolated, unpredictable, discrete events. It is not advisable to try to connect them in your mind with, say, the fires burning across Texas — fires that have burned more of America at this point this year than any wildfires have in previous years. Texas, and adjoining parts of Oklahoma and New Mexico, are drier than they’ve ever been — the drought is worse than that of the Dust Bowl. But do not wonder if they’re somehow connected.
If you did wonder, you see, you would also have to wonder about whether this year’s record snowfalls and rainfalls across the Midwest — resulting in record flooding along the Mississippi — could somehow be related. And then you might find your thoughts wandering to, oh, global warming, and to the fact that climatologists have been predicting for years that as we flood the atmosphere with carbon we will also start both drying and flooding the planet, since warm air holds more water vapor than cold air.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhCY-3XnqS0&feature=player_embedded
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/a-link-between-climate-change-and-joplin-...
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An op-ed by Bill McKibben, author and founder of 350.org, narrated and illustrated by Stephen Thomson of Plomomedia.com
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Wetdog
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Yup.
If we drill ten more deepwater oil wells that blow out---it will all go away.
It will "just disappear".
Like the oil.
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coolplanet
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Powerful presentation!
Thanks for sharing, Love. - 12 months ago
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coolplanet
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alexandrek:
If climatologists hadn't been warning of exactly these weather extremes for the past 30 years as a consequence of increasing atmospheric carbon I might agree that we should be cautious in connecting the dots. But it is becoming undeniable, except to lying rethuglicans, that global warming is real and worse than anyone imagined.
- 12 months ago
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coolplanet
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sharin
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wow
why isn't this getting more notice
well done 350.org - 12 months ago
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nanac
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This is a sad state of affairs......
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nanac
