The "bottomless well of nonsense on disasters and climate change"

If you want a bottomless well of nonsense then check out this “documentary”! It really takes the cake in exaggerated claims and apocalyptic chicken little predictions!

Good grief, suddenly “global warming” is the US having a mild winter, but when Romanians drown in snow and die from cold, that’s global warming too!
All while the world is actually quite a bit cooler than the 30 year average:
http://policlimate.com/climate/gfs_t2m_bias.html
And tornadoes typically occur when Canadian cold meets southwestern moist and warm air – i.e. the opposite situation of what they’ve been preaching all along (“polar amplification”).

I could have sworn that the last two months global average temperatures were below the thirty year average. Could somebody explain the mechanism that makes global warming produce more tornadoes EVEN WHEN GLOBAL TEMPERATURES ARE BELOW NORMAL.

@ Rúnar says:
March 5, 2012 at 11:14 am
If you want a bottomless well of nonsense then check out this “documentary”! It really takes the cake in exaggerated claims and apocalyptic chicken little predictions!
From the video: “Many scientists agree that……………” . Define “many”. And also define “scientists”, and “agree”. 🙂

In June 2010 I posted a 30 year Climate Forecast on my blog at
climatesense-norpag.blogspot.com
part of it explains the tornado outbreaks in the US in 2011 and 12 which are indicative of the current global cooling trend.
“There will be a steeper temperature gradient from the tropics to the poles so that violent thunderstorms with associated flooding and tornadoes will be more frequent in the USA, At the same time the jet stream will swing more sharply North – South thus local weather in the Northern hemisphere in particular will be generally more variable with occasional more northerly heat waves and more southerly unusually cold snaps. In the USA hurricanes may strike the east coast with greater frequency in summer and storm related blizzards more common in winter.
The southern continents will be generally cooler with more frequent droughts and frost and snowin winter,
Arctic and Antarctic sea ice may react differentially to an average global cooling. We might expect sea ice to increase in the Antarctic but in the NH the Arctic Oscillation while bringing cooler temperatures further south may also occasionaly bring warmer air into the Arctic with possible relative loss of sea ice in that area during those years”
The generally more meridional jet stream during global cooling brings a greater temperature contrast across the frontal boundaries resulting in more frequent and more violent tornados and damaging thunderstorms.

I was just a young lad on Palm Sunday of 1965. 37 tornadoes all over the midwest only more severe than this last one. How history repeats itself. Must of been from all the coal burners back then that weren’t on line yet. I remember sitting in the back of our 61 VW with my brother, dad driving uncle in the passenger seat. Keith says, pull over and he looked at the hail and it was all irregular in shape. Must be storms coming (he was a navigator during WW2 on a B25). All of a sudden the VW starts lifting up and roofs and trees are flying by. My old pastor here in Montana was in the same tornado cluster in Indiana.

Cardin Drake, t
The driving forces behind tornadoes have nothing whatsoever to do with the overall global temperature. Nothing. It is the meeting of a cold front with a warm zone while simultaneously interacting with a strong Jet Stream. A-there needs to be sufficient warm moisture (to help drive the mesocyclone formation which creates a tornado at the surface. B-the cold front needs to be moving. Storms on stationary fronts tend to be short-lived, as they grow until they corrupt the atmospheric environment where they started. C-there needs to be a Jet Stream overhead which will aid in the evacuation of air from the top of the mesocyclone “super cell”. I tracked the Henryville, IN storm from just after Bolden, IN until it spawned tornadoes in Clermont County, Ohio, near where I grew up and where I still have friends living. I looked at the split jet stream with north and south jets converging over the region and moving rapidly to the northeast, and I knew it wasn’t going to be good. That cell traveled from north and slightly west of Louisville to east of the Cincinnati area in a little over an hour and a half on Friday, which was incredible forward velocity. It tracked a little south of the direct path over time, as severe super-cells tend to “turn right” as they continually ingest air at a tremdous pace. On the radar image, the debris ball visible from the definite hook echo at Henryville was terrifying to see as I knew there was a long-track F4 or greater tornado on the ground at that point. I called it on Facebook as it was happening.
Temperture GRADIENT on a frontal boundary and jet stream winds drive tornadoes, NOT average global temps… Norman Page hits the nail squarely on the head. I expect to see more storms like this if the Jet Stream continues to bring fronts off the Alaskan waters and Canadian interior this spring. The air temps ahead of these storms weren’t really very high at all, but the air on the back side was so much colder that it “drove” the convection by slamming into the warm air at an incredible pace. I hope this helps…

What is dangerous evidence? And for whom is this evidence dangerous?

Considering La Nina means greater severe weather in the midwest and southeast and weathermen have been saying it since December, who has the better prediction model again? Nothing can dissuaed the true believers.

Is there any ENSO/PDO etc relationship with Tornado frequency/intensity?

McKibben & Co. seem to try to give the Westboro Baptist Church some Gaia inspired competition.

Prof Chown blames humanity for causing global warming in Antarctica, allowing weeds to become established. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-17258799

Cardin Drake says:
March 5, 2012 at 11:50 am
I could have sworn that the last two months global average temperatures were below the thirty year average. Could somebody explain the mechanism that makes global warming produce more tornadoes EVEN WHEN GLOBAL TEMPERATURES ARE BELOW NORMAL.
One number: 1974. A year in the midst of concerns about a coming Ice Age (anthropogenic, no less), where tornados lambasted the Alley. Except, back then there weren’t meme-blathering Gaian commentators grabbing the limelight, nor a blindered MSM. It’s all about being cool.

>> It’s more dangerous evidence of climate change: bit.ly/yeLOxI#350ppm
Note it’s “dangerous evidence of ” NOT ” dangerous climate change”
He’s finally making sense, must be a freudian slip.

TXRed says:
March 5, 2012 at 12:04 pm
I suppose it would be too much to ask for Mr. McKibben and his fellow CAGW believers to restrain themselves at least until after all the funerals are done? I suppose decency and respect for fellow humans doesn’t matter when you are trying to Save the Planet (C).
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Squealing loudly and immediately to press home their puerile points is all part of the warmista credo.
Not for them to have respect for the unfortunate victims of a natural disaster, not in their makeup to be reserved, no, theyre instantly screaming about death and “told ya so” and “repent! the end of the world in 2012!”. What a pile!
Theyre pathetic media whores lacking an ounce of moral fibre just like their Gleicky hero so we shouldnt be surprised when hogs act like hogs.

That BBC disinformation:- Dr. Ian Stuart is a geologist so should know better that preach all that c**p. But of course he is preaching the BBC religious line not science.

Logic check for the warmarxists — more development means the same rate of tornadoes will cause more damage. Depending on the increase of development, more damage could occur even with less tornadoes.
The warmarxists want you to stop erecting all those new houses & businesses so those nasty tornadoes don’t do so much damage! Huge pinwheels excepted, of course.
This morning (days after the tornadoes) I wanted to see the forecast for the next couple days, so I reluctantly clicked the Disaster (weather) channel. I wondered how long it would take them to say “tornado”. It took 2 words….

“Weather Bombs” from a meteorological point of view simply defines a depression whose central pressure falls 24hPa in a 24 hour period. It’s not a scientifc term, just populist jargon. As a weather forecaster in the SW Pacific for yachties I can assure everyone that these depressions are not that “rare”, particularly in the spring and fall. One other thing, somewhere on WUWT there were comments made regarding atmospheric “blocking” as one feature of the AAO. In my experience we see blocking during positive AND negative AAO index values. From a weather point of view blocking has significance because it will slow the advance of fronts and depressions and make forecasting a wee bit more difficult. But to my knowledge using the AAO index to predict them does not work very well.