CLAIM: The devastating Kentucky tornado is the result of a warmer climate, which is making storms more frequent.
VERDICT: UNCERTAIN (Inconclusive). Scientists do not know if there is a correlation between storms and a warmer climate.
President Joe Biden could not let a tragedy go by — even one of the worst tornadoes in living memory — without politicizing it for the Left’s favorite cause: the crusade against climate change.
With survivors still desperate for rescue, and the bodies still being recovered, a journalist asked Biden whether the Kentucky storm was a result of climate change.
He answered that while he did not know about this particular storm, he would ask the Environmental Protection Agency to investigate.
As Fox News reported:
While speaking to reporters and virtually assessing the tornado damage from Wilmington, Delaware, Biden was asked whether he “could conclude that these storms and the intensity have to do with climate change.”
“All I know is that the intensity of the weather across the board has some impacts as a consequence of the warming of the planet and climate change,” Biden said. “The specific impact on these specific storms, I can’t say at this point.”
“I’m going to be asking the EPA and others to take a look at that,” Biden added. “The fact is that we all know everything is more intense when the climate is warming. Everything. And obviously it has some impact here, but I can’t give you a quantitative read on that.”
The problem is that storms have not become more “intense” due to climate change. The evidence is actually inconclusive.
Here are the facts:
• No overall trend in U.S. tornado activity since 1954; but EF-3+ down 50%.
• Climate models cannot resolve mesoscale features.
• Some enviro conditions may become more favorable in future, others less.
• Low confidence in climate change linkage. pic.twitter.com/G3vYVolpRf
— Chris Martz (@ChrisMartzWX) December 11, 2021
As former Obama administration official Steven Koonin wrote in his recent book on climate change, Unsettled: What Climate Science Tells Us, What It Doesn’t, and Why It Matters, “hurricanes and tornados show no changes attributable to human influences” (112), and that “the best we can say is that, if anything, U.S. tornadoes have become more benign as the globe has warmed over the past seventy-five years, and we have no credible method for projecting future changes” (126).
Even an Associated Press “explainer” struggles to accept the idea that climate change is linked to the Kentucky tornadoes:
“Attributing a specific storm like Friday’s to the effects of climate change remains very challenging,” it concluded.
However, the AP also strained to cite scientists who said that a warmer climate could produce more thunderstorms in the wintertime.
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The simple and correct answer to the question is: No, tornadoes sre caused by changing weather. When cold air masses converge rapidly with underlying warmer air or warm ground, the chance for tornadoes becomes very high. It can happen in any climate, given certain other general conditions remain constant
The Weather disaster porn channel (100% chance of unbelievable) tried to link this tornado to La Nina. 2021 was going to be one of the worst hurricane years on record. The Warmists can’t resist, and their audience is gullible. Like CNN, the sponsors stick around.
Q.How can you tell Biden is telling a Lie? A. His Lips are Moving. This is what we were using when Clinton was in the Oval Office
Nothing Biden says has any credibility whatsoever.
FJB