Sen. Kerry Blames Tornados on Global Warming

[the iron horse]

http://www.businessandmedia.org/arti...206170159.aspx

No time to mourn the the ones killed or the families and friends affected it seems.

Senator Kerry did not mention them.

[Irvine511]

i think it was the wrath of God coming down on all those people who voted for Huckabee.

Obama did mention them last night, though.

[U2isthebest]

Originally posted by Irvine511
i think it was the wrath of God coming down on all those people who voted for Huckabee.

Obama did mention them last night, though.

No it's the fault of teh gayz. Sorry.

[verte76]

We've been having alot of storms around here.

[MrsSpringsteen]

I'm sure he mourns the losses, yes the timing doesn't look good but the fact remains that tornadoes in Jan and Feb is strange-as are temps in the 70's and 80's. They did say that those temps clashing with the colder air coming down from the north created a perfect scenario for those types of tornadoes. La Nina is a factor as well.

I don't think one meteorologist's opinion is definitive on this issue, where I live they can't even predict the temperature accurately and have been wrong on numerous storms this winter.

[INDY500]

And to think, if it wasn't for the good folks at Diebold, this chowderhead would be the current occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.

Divine Providence indeed.

[DrTeeth]

John Kerry's making a lot of sense here.

[MrsSpringsteen]

WASHINGTON (AP) — All the right ingredients combined for Tuesday's killer tornadoes, especially warm moist air and a shifting weather pattern courtesy of the La Nina phenomenon. Just one thing was off: The calendar.

The Feb. 5 killer tornadoes — at least the 15th deadliest U.S. outbreak on record — had all the earmarks of a batch of twisters usually seen in March, said several meteorologists.

It was farther north than most February tornadoes and stronger, said Joseph Schaefer, director of the Storm Prediction Center in Norman, Okla.

Tornadoes do happen in February, but a study by Schaefer two years ago found that winter tornadoes in parts of the South occur more frequently and are stronger when there is a La Nina, a cooling of Pacific waters that is the flip side of the better known El Nino. In 1971, a deadlier February outbreak in the Mississippi Delta killed 121 people.

But Tuesday's weather violence, which killed at least 50 people, was noteworthy. February tornadoes usually pop up near the Gulf Coast, not in Kentucky or Tennessee, said University of Oklahoma meteorology professor Howard Bluestein.

Part of the explanation is record warmth. It was 84 degrees in Oklahoma before the storm front moved through on its path of destruction. On Tuesday, 97 weather stations broke or tied records in Arkansas, Alabama, Tennessee and Kentucky — the hardest-hit states.

Meteorologists are quick to say they cannot blame global warming. There is not enough good data over enough years with weather events as small as tornadoes, to draw such conclusions.

But there were plenty of the standard ingredients for tornado formation Tuesday: a strong storm system coming from the west (this one buried parts of Colorado in snow); warm air near the ground; high winds; and warm moist air coming north from the Gulf of Mexico.

While La Nina doesn't specifically cause tornadoes, it helps shift the jet stream, pushing storms from the West and moisture from the Gulf into the necessary collision course over the South, said Schaefer.

Like El Nino, it happens every few years, and it's been changing global weather patterns for a few months now, strengthening in January, said Mike Halpert, deputy director of the Climate Prediction Center, which monitors La Nina.

Preliminary figures for January — the numbers usually drop after closer scrutiny — show 136 tornadoes, five tornado deaths and three killer tornadoes. The average from 1997-2007 is 40 tornadoes, three deaths, and three killer tornadoes. The record for most tornadoes was 212 in January 1999.

Between 1997 and 2007, the average February has 30 tornadoes, killing 9 people. Early reports tallied 68 tornadoes so far this month.

"We're off to a big start for the year," said Greg Carbin, a meteorologist at the storm center.

Get used to this because the patterns that lead to tornado outbreaks seem to be here for a while, meteorologists said.

"As long as the pattern remains the same it can be very active," Schaefer said. "It's not a time to let down your guard."

[martha]

Originally posted by INDY500
And to think, if it wasn't for the good folks at Diebold, this chowderhead would be the current occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.

Divine Providence indeed.

My God. A senator says something a little weird, yet probably accurate, about deadly weather, and you'd still take the lying, rambling fuck-up we have now over him?

Your priorities are petty.

[lynnok]

Originally posted by MrsSpringsteen
WASHINGTON (AP)

But there were plenty of the standard ingredients for tornado formation Tuesday: a strong storm system coming from the west (this one buried parts of Colorado in snow); warm air near the ground; high winds; and warm moist air coming north from the Gulf of Mexico.

I blame the campaigns. All that extra hot air is hovering near the ground and throwing the weather all out of allignment.

[INDY500]

Originally posted by martha


Your priorities are petty.

I know, wasn't he great at the Super Bowl!!

[2861U2]

Why did A-Mess-NBC have John Kerry on to talk about the storm, anyway?

[Headache in a Suitcase]

i blame al gore any time it snows

[U2isthebest]

Originally posted by Headache in a Suitcase
i blame al gore any time it snows

Really? I blame him when I lose my Internet connection.

[Headache in a Suitcase]

i blame al gore for a lot of things

[U2isthebest]

Originally posted by Headache in a Suitcase
i blame al gore for a lot of things

I blame him for our lack of a lockbox.

[randhail]

Originally posted by Headache in a Suitcase
i blame al gore any time it snows

I want to hug al gore everytime is snows.

[Headache in a Suitcase]

Originally posted by U2isthebest


I blame him for our lack of a lockbox.

if he would have put our o-zone layer in a lockbox years ago we wouldn't have to deal with this shit.

selfish prick.

[U2isthebest]

Originally posted by Headache in a Suitcase


if he would have put our o-zone layer in a lockbox years ago we wouldn't have to deal with this shit.

selfish prick.

He really is.


Medicare and Social Security are going in there with no chance of getting out, but our Ozone is just avaliable for any Tom, Dick, or Harry to destroy. Way to go, Al.

[Headache in a Suitcase]

i heard frank zappa's ashes are also in the lockbox.