Rosie O'Donnell: Tornadoes caused by global warming

[wyguy]

Rosie O'Donnell: Tornadoes caused by global warming

Living in an era when pop culture celebrities can assert "expert" opinions on any subject, why wait for science to catch up with pesky facts?

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[Guest]

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[Matthitjah]

She's worshipping at the altar in the temple of man of the Religion of the Beast.

[Fez]

Who is to say she is not partly right?

Weather patterns are changing, and that can't be disputed. We have weather data going back 70 years (because of our fire watch system), and the pattern does not look good. We are 70% below the 70 year average for rainfall for instance. (for 9 years now). Even the seasonal rainfall has been changing. We are in a summer rainfall area, but what does now fall also falls in winter. There has been a dramatic change.

And as some scientists have predicted, we are going to have drought in some places, broken only by extreme weather events like cyclones and then drought again. In other places rainfall will be heavier than usual, and places will get above average rainfall for the foreseeable future.

I can't talk about tornadoes, as we very seldom get them, and then not at the strength that the US does.

[nebula]

The news reports have stated this tornado was the worst seen since 1957 (or there abouts). My boss lived in Chicago in the 50's, and she was telling me about how bad the tornado threats were.

So, was it global warming back then?

[glennagail]

The news reports have stated this tornado was the worst seen since 1957 (or there abouts). My boss lived in Chicago in the 50's, and she was telling me about how bad the tornado threats were.

So, was it global warming back then?

I think sometimes we mix up global warming with the idea that we have caused it. There is no doubt that the earth is going though some kind of changes. But the earth has gone though changes before ice ages and what not. This could just be one of those things. It could we are just more aware of the weather around the world because of how we recieve our news these days. To me it feels like the changes God said would happen as his coming draws closer.

[other one]

One would need to check the sun cycle to see where it was in 1957. Tornadoes are extremely complex. Temperature is only one part of their formation and where and how they move. We've had tornadoes in the winter time when it was very cold.

[Fez]

The news reports have stated this tornado was the worst seen since 1957 (or there abouts). My boss lived in Chicago in the 50's, and she was telling me about how bad the tornado threats were.

So, was it global warming back then?

Probably not. Some would have attributed it to God's wrath I am sure (that has gone on since recored time), but let me ask you, could it be global warming now?

And for the record, I never said it was, I asked about the probability of her being right.

Things are changing, that cannot be denied. For instance. I work in wide open spaces, and have worked in the same area for 30 years. The trees to me, and the shrubs on the side of the road, are as common to me as someone who passes the same starbucks on their way to work every day. I am serious about that. I can see a skyline 5 miles away and know that a tree has fallen over, the environment where I work is so familiar to me.

So I see things.

One thing I have been seeing is the increase of indigenous trees encroaching on our grasslands. I can point out areas where there were no trees, and show someone an individual tree that is starting to grow. It has become so bad that I now have teams trying to preserve grasslands by cutting out indigenous trees.

One factor that is causing this is a rise in CO2. As we are well aware, trees prefer a CO2 rich environment to grow, as do they an alkaline soil.

Something is happening and things will never be the same again....

[other one]

The news reports have stated this tornado was the worst seen since 1957 (or there abouts). My boss lived in Chicago in the 50's, and she was telling me about how bad the tornado threats were.

So, was it global warming back then?

neb, if my memory serves me correctly, I believe that the going predictions were global cooling and a mini ice age. i'm not sure exactly when that started, but it was about that time frame.

[nebula]

One would need to check the sun cycle to see where it was in 1957. Tornadoes are extremely complex. Temperature is only one part of their formation and where and how they move. We've had tornadoes in the winter time when it was very cold.

I was listening to a video report from a tornado chaser, and he stated no one really knows why tornadoes form.