Well, that didn't take long to run the "climate is severe weather" scare story

Did she bring up the shark attacks down in Ausland and blame them on climate change as well?

Well, the DFW area did get hit good today.

Video here from Bonnie View Road at Interstate 20 exit 472 in Dallas.
http://www.fox11online.com/dpp/weather/texas-tornado-damages-schneider-national-trucks

Can you imagine what is was like here before Columbus. Only Natives with a population density of one person per 20 square miles? I bet the tornadoes were wiping the tribes out until hardly none were left. Wrecking teepees or hogans or long houses. Higher population density means more destruction in some areas. Kinda like having a picturesque view of the river when your in the 5 year flood plain. Better have good insurance.

The writing has been sighted on the wall here in Australia by our Socialist govrnment. The Department of Climate Change is to shed one third of its staff.

CNN is like little children with a fancy toy. Slathered in glitzy graphics and fades, and chant-like in its news cycle frequency, A bunch of literally dumb reporters pretend to seek information from around their world (it’s not our world). Floppy-shouldered ditzes on the femme side, and the likes of weird-breathing-cadence Wolf Blitzer on the homme side, combine to gob us with drama…with literally no information of real value to the watcher. Kings of the droning meme.

It is worth noting that during most La Nina years (at least four out of five) the occurrence of storms and precipitation in Texas is generally below-average. See the 2007-2009 and 2010-2011 droughts across most of Texas, both of which were largely influenced by La Nina conditions in the tropical Pacific Ocean. However, Texas has seen normal to slightly above-normal precipitation this winter and early spring across most of the state (with exception of west Texas) despite another La Nina phase. Dr. Nielsen-Gammon recently wrote a blog about this, and outlined, among a number of other factors, the change in the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) from negative to positive as one of the reasons for the abnormal La Nina (in terms of average impacts on Texas). Anyways, main point is that just as the CNN meteorologists are flawed in trying to attribute this outbreak of storms to anthropogenic global warming, you too are flawed in solely attributing it to a SST phase in the Pacific that generally has the opposite effect of these storms today.

When you’re pointing to random bad weather events as an “effect” of AGW you’re on your last legs. The public’s BS meters go off the scale.

“Bright early, becoming dark later”. If you ever hear anything else from a TV weather auto-cutie, ask for a peer review and IPCC sponsorship.

Tornados in Texas in April! Unprecedented! Unbelievable!
To some extent this is just part of the East Coast’s overwhelming abysmal abject bigotry and ignorance about everything west of the Hudson and south of the Battery. When anything at all happens in the Great Plains, CNN / Fox / MSNBC will reliably say something fantastically idiotic about it.

How much does CNN GROSSLY overpay Alexandra Steele? Her comments are unbelievable.

“It’s Better To Be Thought An Airhead Bimbo Than To Open Your Mouth And Remove All Doubt.”
With apologies to Mark Twain

Yes tornados in Texas in April, must be unprecedented.
Here is interesting TV news coverage of a tornado outbreak in 1964 in Wichita Falls that I found.


I think TV news overages have change a bit since that time.
FOI, as a young officer in the Swedish Air Force my father spent the spring of 1963 at Sheppard Air Force Base. I have to ask him if he heard about this tornado which struck one year later.

Cameras everywhere. Internet everywhere. Airheads everywhere.

I live in DFW area and it’s something I have to deal with EVERY SPRING no matter what. To link this to climate change is absurd…

Joseph Bastardi says….
Joe, I rather enjoyed watching you hold Beckel at arm’s length this afternoon. He’s normally a party line guy on climate change. Are you sure there aren’t any tornados waiting for him in Dakota?
: > )

If you are interested in seeing radar images, photos, and video of the Metroplex Metronadoes, please go here and scroll down: http://meteorologicalmusings.blogspot.com/

We are were the news is.
CNN (1980)
The news is where we are.
CNN (1990)
If we don’t have a reporter there with a video camera then it didn’t happen.
CNN (2000)
More entertaining then theOnion.
CNN (2010)

I wonder, do you think that tornado mistook the trucking company for a trailer park?
I live in the Dallas area & I remember seeing a tornado rip through Oak Cliff as a kid. Not to mention the one that hit Ft. Worth a few years back. There’s a reason where we live is called “Tornado Alley “. At lest there is warning of a storm coming, unlike the earth shaking of my wife’s native California.

I would think that a more obvious sign of climate change would be if we went through several years with a lack of weather extremes.

From the NOAA website:
The Top Ten Deadliest Tornadoes in Texas since 1900:
1 – The Waco Tornado – May 11, 1953
2 – The Goliad Tornado – May 18, 1902
3 – The Rocksprings Tornado – April 12, 1927
4 – The Tri-State Tornado – April 09, 1947
5 – The Wichita Falls Tornado April 10, 1979
6 – The Frost Tornado – May 06, 1930
7 – The Karnes-Dewitt Tornado – May 06, 1930
8 – The Zephyr Tornado – May 30, 1909
9 – The Saragosa Tornado – May 22, 1987
10 – The Jarrell Tornado – May 27, 1997
http://www.srh.noaa.gov/ama/?n=top10_tornadoes
Also noted at the bottom of the list are 18 other tornadoes since 1990 that have caused more than a dozen deaths each:
of particular note:
May 9, 1927 – Dallas, 15 deaths F-Rating = 4

There is also this:
April 1957 Dallas tornado outbreak:
The April 1957 Dallas tornado outbreak was a deadly tornado outbreak that struck most of the Southern United States from April 2 to the early hours of April 4, 1957.
The outbreak was most notable due to a tornado that hit a densely populated area of the Dallas Metropolitan area, while other deadly tornadoes struck portions of Mississippi, Texas, and Oklahoma. The two-day outbreak killed at least 19 across 3 states and produced 50 tornadoes from Texas to Tennessee.
See: http://www.1957dallastornado.net/

I’m surprised we don’t see more of this. Weather people have an incentive to play up the significance of weather events. In a world where big scary things might happen with the weather, the TV weather guy becomes more important. Weather presenters have as much incentive as climate scientists to overhype the dangers of climate change. I’m actually astonished that so few have succumbed to the temptation and joined the dark side.

Looking at the ENSO meter, we’ve not been in neutral territory for very long, and the system response has lots of momentum to sort out. No surprise that we’re seeing some bad storms this year. We’ll see if we give ’74 a run for its money but it seems unlikely at this point.

I’ll bet Dorothy and Toto didn’t know they were victims of AGW.

There is nothing more usual than unusual weather – except the usual kind.

“This global warming is really kind of a misnomer,” Steele said. “It’s global climate change. So the colds are colder and warms are warmer and severe is more severe.”
So the average won’t change then.

I actually am a believer in climate change. After all, if one looks at the proxy record for the last 5 million years, the climate was approximately stable until some 3 million years ago, then the mean temperature started to decline, then the planet entered a real ice age perhaps 2 million years ago or a bit more, then it began to exhibit bistability around 1 million years ago, and for the last 400-500 thousand years the bistability has been pronounced with a warm phase almost as warm as the standard stable temperature was 3 million years ago, although distinctly cooler than it was 5 million years ago.
In that last 500,000 year period, the Earth has spent 80% of the time in cold/ice phase with substantial glaciation, around 10% of the time in warm/interglacial phase, 10% of the time in multi-thousand-year transitions or partial warmings or coolings. In the current interglacial (the Holocene) temperatures have fluctuated by as much as 2K between the Holocene Optimum (when it was 0.5-1 K warmer than it is now) and the LIA minimum about 1-1.5K cooler — not including the Younger Dryas excursion which was a thousand year hiatus of cooling, drought, and climate catastrophe that interrupted the initial warming of the Holocene. Over the last 1000 years alone temperatures have fluctuated by well over 1K, although perhaps a bit less than 2K max to min. Sounds like climate change to me.
I’m a moderate believer in anthropogenic climate change. Or rather I’m a firm believer that some moderate fraction of the temperature variations observed and climate pattern variations observed is anthropogenic. After all, there is substantial evidence and a sound physical argument that this is the case. The evidence is difficult to quantify, though, because we still lack a comprehensive theory that can explain the baseline temperature and its substantial natural variability. Lacking such a theory, attempts to assign “anthropogenic blame” for “climate change” are, as you note, so much bullshit.
However, I do suspect that we are preparing to enter a period where Earth’s temperatures do become more polarized, with the poles colder and the equator warmer not as the Earth warms, but as it cools. Since severe weather is indeed associated with with “warmth” per se but with temperature deltas, this may eventually produce a measurable change in frequency of severe events, although again it will be difficult to detect (to say the least) given our lack of a comprehensive baseline — at most 50 odd years of weather satellites, more like 30 or 40 of satellites teamed with weather radar and accurate recording and reporting — in some parts of the land surface of the Earth and a tiny fraction of the water surface (in the case of radar).
That doesn’t excuse alarmism, or citing climate change as if it is all anthropogenic. As noted, it will be difficult to impossible to tell if the climate is changing at all, let alone what the proximate causes of that change are, lacking a comprehensive theory and a long baseline of modern-era measurements. Perhaps in 30-50 years (giving us close to a century of decent instrumental observations). In the meantime, the weather is even more changeable than the climate, and its variations mean even less. We’ve had an extraordinarily warm spring in NC (after an unusually cold and snowy winter last year) just as we’ve had before and no doubt will have again. Extreme weather events happen literally every day, somewhere on the planet, making it easy for alarmists to find one to neurose over and blame on Civilization.
In the end, the Earth’s climate is what it is and will do what it does, mostly unforced by human hand. The short-term prediction is cooling, not warming, at least until the albedo goes back down.
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Here’s what the CNN weather reporter person(!) REALLY meant to say:
“This global warming is really kind of a misnomer…”
“It’s global climate insanity! So the unprecedented is MORE unprecedented and catastrophes are MORE catastrophic and the alarmists are MORE alarming and … ”
/sarc