March 6, 2012
NEW YORK (Reuters) – When at least 80 tornadoes rampaged across the United States, from the Midwest to the Gulf of Mexico, last Friday, it was more than is typically observed during the entire month of March, tracking firm AccuWeather.com reported on Monday.
According to some climate scientists, such earlier-than-normal outbreaks of tornadoes, which typically peak in the spring, will become the norm as the planet warms.
“As spring moves up a week or two, tornado season will start in February instead of waiting for April,” said climatologist Kevin Trenberth of the National Center for Atmospheric Research.
No actual data in use by Trenberth. The worst year for March tornadoes was during the ice age scare of the 1970s.
And according to Hansen, 2010 had the hottest March in the history of the planet. It also had the lowest tornado count in three decades. Would you trust a climate scientist to take care of anything you actually rely on? What if your doctor pulled drug prescriptions out of his ass, like climate scientists do theories?
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Severe tornadoes also peaked during the ice age scare of the 1970s.
Physicians make decisions that have morbidity and mortality implications for our patients. We try to practice using evidence-based medicine, and for the patient to give informed consent we have an obligation to tell them the pro and con, the known and unknown. These AGW alarmists have a totally different approach which I do not respect – ramming their dogma down our throats, embellishing and exaggerating the catastrophies that will befall us, yet presenting no economically viable green energy solutions to the climate diagnosis they have made.
If I thought a patient had cancer based on their symptoms or physical exam, and the CT scan or biopsy showed no cancer, I wouldn’t say it was a “travesty” I couldn’t explain it, but rather would celebrate with the patient the good news.
“FEARFUL TORNADO IN UNITED STATES.
MANY VILLAGES DESTROYED.
APPALLING LOSS OF LIFE.
28th March.
A frightful tornado is reported to have taken place last night in America, by which many thousands of lives have been sacrificed and enormous loss of property caused.”
http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/70082352?
28 March 1890
“TERRIBLE CYCLONE IN AMERICA.
Whole Towns Destroyed.
A tornado passed over the north-western States of America on Thursday, March 31, and caused enormous damage and great loss of life, in some cases whole towns being devastated.”
http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/25328069?
31 March 1892
“TORNADO IN ALABAMA.
TWENTY-FIVE FATALITIES.
FIVE HUNDRED PERSONS INJURED.
March 26.
A tornado, which resulted in great loss of life and immense destruction of property, is reported to have passed over Birmingham, a city in Alabama, U.S.A.”
http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/4828068?
26 March 1901
“LATER NEWS FROM AMERICA.
A terrible tornado swept over Illinois and Indiana States on the 20th of March, causing great destruction to life and property.”
http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/36635227?
20 March 1866
“FEARFUL TORNADO.
AUGUSTA, GEORGIA.
MARCH 22.
A special from Camack says:—”Every house in this village was blown down on Saturday, by the great tornado, except one, which is partially destroyed. ”
http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/11516550?
22 Mar 1875
“TORNADO IN KENTUCKY
SEVEN PERSONS KILLED – GREAT DESTRUCTION OF PROPERTY.
Louisville, March 4.-A terrible tornado, 400 yards in width, swept through Casey County between 2 and 3 o’clock Saturday afternoon, doing great damage in the neighbourhood of Rich Hill and Mount Olive.”
http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/70612792?
4 Mar 1878
Earlier in 1876…
“A TERRIBLE TORNADO IN KENTUCKY
February 16.-Last Sunday afternoon, about 3 o’clock, the southern portion of Taylor county was visited by a tornado of extraordinary violence, which occasioned an amount of damage and suffering almost incalculable.”
http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/13370131?
16 Feb 1876
..and again in 1884:
“TERRIBLE TORNADO IN AMERICA
A despatch from Rockingham, North Carolina, reports that 15 persons were killed and many injured in the neighbourhood of that town by the tornado on Monday night, February 18.”
http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/13567341?
18 Feb 1884
..this has to be Global Warming at work again – in February:
“THE TORNADO IN ILLINOIS
A destructive tornado swept over Illinois on Sunday, February 19, by which two thirds of Mount Vernon, a town of about 4,000 inhabitants, were literally swept out of existence within a few minutes.”
http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/6114651?
19 Feb 1888
talking of doctors ,
99% of doctors were 100% wrong about the cause of stomach ulcers.
Your numbers are off but essentially correct. Some outrageous surgeries used to be done for this until H.pylori bacteria was found to be responsible for most cases. BTW, most ulcers are in the duodenum, and the H.pylori is in the stomach itself.
i thought it was a couple of doctors that used themselves as guinea pigs against an established view in the medical profession as to the cause.
Trenberth, who not too long ago declared (I believe in a scientific paper) that global warming is hiding at the bottom of the deep dark oceans, beyond the reach of Argo and so of course where “buildup” cannot be measured.
To wit “The dog ate my homework.”
I would not believe Trenberth if he said that water is wet.
That “ass” comment about sums it up. Still chuckling about it.
Just curious about the difference between those two graphs…
Maybe its my imagination, but it looks like there have been more March tornadoes in recent decades, while the total number of severe tornadoes seems to stay the same or trend down. Does that mean:
a) With the advent of doppler radar, we’re “seeing” tornadoes now that would have gone “unseen” a few decades ago (small tornadoes being most likely to be missed).
b) There’s been a shift in when the tornadoes occur.
c) Something else.
Many more tornadoes are now detected because of better technology and suburban sprawl.