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Tornado Hunting

First, XKCD: And it seems that the quarry is getting scarcer and scarcer. Global Warming anyone? From Watts Up With That:

Global warming = more tornadoes | Not happening this year
With the onset of the Autumnal Equinox today at 21:18 UTC, the severe weather season winds down. I reported earlier on the finding of Ryan Maue, who showed that we�ve reached a 30 year low in Accumulated Cyclone Energy (ACE) which is a measure of global hurricane activity.

Now it appears the 2009 tornado season is significantly lower as well, which is a very, very, good thing. The actual number of tornadoes so far this year is only 850 compared to the previous three years, all above 1000. 2008 saw 1691 tornadoes in the USA, almost double. The three year average is 1297 tornadoes. Tornado related deaths are also way down with only 21 so far this year compared to 126 last year and a 3 year average of 91.

How many times to people have to hit themselves over the head before they understand that the whole Anthropogenic Global Warming bullshit is just that -- bullshit. The way they target CO2 while not mentioning the more critical gasses (ie: water vapor) shows that this is a political agenda and not true science. Posted by DaveH at September 22, 2009 9:29 PM