Following the weekend’s deadly U.S. tornadoes, Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Administrator Deanne Criswell (pictured) couldn’t miss out on an opportunity to play the AGW card, saying that extreme weather events like the storms and twisters that swept through a number of states this weekend “is going to be our new normal.”
“This is going to be our new normal and the effects that we’re seeing from climate change are the crisis of our generation,” Criswell told co-host Jake Tapper on CNN’s “State of the Union”–so credibility instantly lost then.
Severe storms and tornadoes tore through states in the South and Midwest late Friday into Saturday, leaving devastating damage, tens of thousands of homes without power, and almost 100 people dead.
“There is still hope and we should continue to try to find as many people as we can,” says FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell on the search and rescue efforts after a historic swarm of deadly tornadoes tore across six states. https://t.co/wVBWOeoDSG #CNNSOTU pic.twitter.com/RvVlrrWnxR
— State of the Union (@CNNSotu) December 12, 2021
This was a tragedy, undoubtedly — a truly hellish ordeal for those there; but to blame global warming and to climateer during such a disaster is disgusting, even by CNN standards.
These days, ‘progressives’ don’t hesitate to blame any kind of severe weather on AGW.
This is even though The Science that said alarmists repeatedly insist we follow states that tornadoes require unusually cool air to form.
As climatologist and former NASA scientist Dr. Roy Spencer explains:
Very few thunderstorms produce tornadoes. In the hot and humid tropics, they are virtually unheard of. The reason why is that (unlike hurricanes) tornadoes require strong wind shear, which means wind speed increasing and changing direction with height in the lower atmosphere — conditions that exist only when a cool air mass collides with a warm air mass–which is what occurred over the weekend:
(1) This dramatic 11 December in USA with a deadly tornadoes outbreak and its extreme weather with the clash of such different airmasses is sadly making history. We see the extreme contrast with some areas dropped by 10F-20F in few hours and the warm air moving NE. tbc… pic.twitter.com/1sNcE76C7A
— Extreme Temperatures Around The World (@extremetemps) December 11, 2021
The catastrophist caterwaulings of agenda-drivers like FEMA are opposed by scientific discovery and meteorological theory: This weekend’s collision of opposing air masses is actually better explained by low solar activity:
https://electroverse.net/grand-solar-minimum-and-the-swing-between-extremes/
Alarmists do not get to alter known reality in order to advance their warped ideologies.
History will hold them to account.
Read rest at Electroverse
We had a Tornado go through a area in 2019 in our area in Northern California rare but not unheard of and it was Not Because of Global Warming/Climate Change
What have wind turbines and solar panels done to stop this?
Nothing. The money would have been better spent on energy efficiency, sturdier buildings, and adaptation.
Ontario Power Generation is proceeding with a modular nuclear generator, located at an existing nuclear station. 300 MW output. This makes sense, but it’s also an indictment of renewables as unreliable.