No, Ohio Capital Journal, Climate Change is Not Causing ‘Weird, Violent Weather’

The Ohio Capital Journal story is just another instance of sloppy, irresponsible journalism by a reporter promoting his preconceived views on climate change, and the climate catastrophe narrative, over data…

A new paper shows that U.S. tornado damage & strong tornado incidence are both sharply down

There is simply no evidence to support claims that tornadoes are getting worse or causing more damage.

Alarming Deterioration of US National Weather Service Tornado Warnings

To continue the status quo is to guarantee more lives are unnecessarily lost and that more mega-disasters like Joplin will occur.

Media FAILS: Ignores Real-World Data When It Comes to Tornadoes and Climate Change

This article originally appeared in American Thinker on April 7, 2023. After the recent devastating tornadoes in the Midwest and South, some media outlets scrambled to try to link the weather events…

Wrong, WDSU, Climate Change Is Not Causing an Increase in ‘Dixie Alley’ Tornadoes

Severe tornadoes are decreasing nationally, contrary to alarmist claims, a fact NOAA has recently tried to hide. Climate Realism has covered this several times, including here, here, and here, for example.

Warming Could Lead To Fewer Tornadoes… Trend Has Been Downward 70 Years, Less Damage

The tornado debate, which heats up every time severe activity occurs, remains completely undecided when it comes to what the future holds. But so far, the data have been pointing…

Increasingly Powerful Tornadoes???

. As a result of this finding, the conclusion from the authors that tornadoes are becoming increasingly more powerful should be rejected outright.

TORNADO

“attribution of certain classes of extreme weather (eg, tornadoes) is beyond current modelling & theoretical capabilities”

Were the Recent Tornadoes the Result of Global Warming?

From the Cliff Mass Weather Blog Powerful, long-lived tornadoes struck western Kentucky, southern Illinois, and the vicinity on Friday night.  And within hours, major media outlets, national politicians, and several…

A Critical Gap in Tornado Warning Technology: Lessons of the Recent Tornado Outbreak

The smartphone could not only provide a warning of imminent tornado passage but could provide information on the best direction to flee if no sheltering location is available–generally at right…

Kentucky Tornadoes, Climate Change, And Pressure Systems

. Jim Steele The video examines the weather dynamics that that led to the outbreak of tornadoes devastating Kentucky and the Mississippi River Valley region. Unusual cold, not warmth, plus…

Joe Biden Spins Tornado Misinformation

President Joe Biden wasted no time in politicizing the recent tornado tragedy that claimed nearly 100 lives in Kentucky, Illinois, Arkansas, Tennessee, and Missouri. Speaking less than 24 hours after…

Recent Tornadoes are Due to Unusually Cold Weather

To claim that global warming is causing more tornadoes is worse than speculative; it is directly opposite to the clear observational evidence.

Below Normal Extremes…2021 Northern Hemisphere Cyclone Activity Below Normal…US Tornadoes Below Normal

The accumulated cyclone energy (ACE) is the best measure of overall tropical activity and it is below-normal for the 2021 season across the Northern Hemisphere.

Inconvenient Tornado Data Disappears

All we have is the chart, along with a table, which dishonestly claims that tornadoes have become progressively more common.

May Snaps Long-standing Streak for Strong Tornadoes in US

Accuweather reports: During the month of May, the United States saw 288 preliminary reports of tornadoes, above the May average of 276 tornadoes. None of these storms were rated as stronger than…

The ‘New Normal’ That Wasn’t

Guest essay by Dan Sutter Tornadoes killed 553 Americans in 2011, the deadliest year since 1925.  May 22nd marked the 10th anniversary of the Joplin, Missouri tornado that killed 161,…

Joplin Disaster & Bill McKibben Ten Years Later

Will McKibben now publicly apologise for misleading the public at the time?

Another year, and still no increase in severe U.S. tornadoes

By Paul Homewood Climate scientists love to blame every bad weather event on global warming. Yet we never hear them cite climate change for the relative absence of bad weather!…

After a year of no violent tornadoes in 2018, ‘Chasercon’ looks to the future

Readers will surely recall our recent story about 2018 will be the first year with no violent tornadoes in the United States. Now, meteorologist Mike Smith writes to tell us…

2018 will be the first year with no violent tornadoes in the United States

From LMT Online In the whirlwind that is 2018, there has been a notable lack of high-end twisters. We’re now days away from this becoming the first year in the…

Madness at #AGU2018 – probability based tornado warnings

Do You Want More Complex Tornado Warnings?? Guest essay by Mike Smith, CCM This is the story of a bad idea: probabilistic storm warnings.  Under the current storm warning system, you…

2018 U.S. tornadoes on track to be lowest ever – NOAA’s temperature trends blow a hole in “climate correlation”

While claims of increased severe weather due to “climate change” aka “global warming” are thrown about by the media, with recent claims that more and more tornadoes are shifting east…

2018 US tornadoes lowest in 65 years of record-keeping

From the NOAA Storm Prediction Center comes this inconvenient data that pretty much kills the “climate is making weather more severe” claim. Get this – a record-low 759 tornadoes formed…