ATL torn apart by Tornado

Please, Let them get more help than Katrina victims did.

On top of the extreme drought they are experiencing this is tragic. When is this government going to wake up to climate change?

Just goes to show that a tornado doesn't discriminate based on where you live.

Ah my hometown...I'm glad it wasn't much worse.

Ive lived in the Atlanta area my whole life and I've never seen anything like what went on last night and theres supposed to be more comming our way. The downtown area is just a mess. The weather has gone crazy lately. Last week it was snowing outside. If that doesn't prove that global warming is real I don't know what does.

Marilynn_Murray, I live here and we don't need near as much aid as a result of this as of the Katrina victims. Also, I believe in global warming but I really don't see how you can claim a tornado in the South proves that it exists.

SxVodk8, I didn't claim it but I believe it. Not just from that there is evidence all over the world. That ice caps are melting is a big clue.

Its not about claiming warming causes tornadoes. Tornadoes are naturaly occuring phenomena as are droughts, floods, and wildfires. Its that they are all linked to climate paterns and even slight fluctuations under a degree have a mesurable affect on those paterns. Tornadoes thrive on fluctuations in normal climate paterns. The clash between warm and cold fronts. The last few years have set a record for tornadic activity. This storm was a singular occurance certainly but its reflective of how climate change affects us personaly in the midwest. Increases in tornadic activity means more chances of freak storms like this one and damage to our homes and persons. While its unrealistic to say we can prevent all tornadoes we have come along way in understanding how they form and providing acurate warning data. The same scientists who provide that data are the ones calling for us to adress climate change. I tend to trust them as I owe my life to them. Warnings saved my life three times when storms struck my home and demolished my grandmothers while she was watching my cousins. I don't want to do anyhting that goades on or increases the liklihood of such a storm occuring again. Also worth mentioning is that my city is also essentialy a soupbowl, the downtown is in a place not usualy suitable for tornadic activity and as I showed you with my picture it sustained it as well. Tornadic activity in a crowded urban center is a rare occurance and to my mind a dire warning.

I lived in Atlanta for 28 years my parent lived here for at least 50 and never once has a tornado ever come through our downtown metro area and damage large amounts of our 285 perimeter homes and structures. Global Warming ( Greenhouse effect) whatvere you want to call it does have something to do with it when you warm the earth you also change wind pattern and cloud formation that is typical to certain regions. Generally Atlanta isnt considered part of " Tornado Alley" as we call it in the south. But now I guess that might be changed

So, does this act as confirming evidence for global warming?

I'm in the skeptical group about global warming. We live in a society that likes to try and scare us into thinking we're the ones causing everything. The planet is in a warming cycle, humans may be helping somewhat, but it's warming whether we want it to or not. It boils down to we like things the way they are for the most part and aren't willing to accept that the face of the planet is going to change.
I'll come off my soapbox and get to the more short term. I only heard 1 report about La Nina which is the cycle we're in now. When he had droughts here in the 80's that's when I first heard about El Nino and La Nina. In El Nino years it's going to be drier, but since we're in La Nina, the storms are going to be worse and it's going to be wetter.