Democratic New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez suggested the tornado warning that hit the D.C. area Thursday was part of the “climate crisis” she has previously said humanity only has 12 years left to solve.
“The climate crisis is real y’all,” Ocasio said on Instagram Thursday, “guess we’re at casual tornadoes in growing regions of the country?”
However, she was quickly fact-checked by meteorologist Ryan Maue, who pointed out that far from proof of a “climate crisis,” D.C.’s tornado warning was “just the weather.”
I thought this was fake but it’s from @AOC Instagram story.
No idea what she means with “casual tornadoes” and how this line of severe thunderstorms is proof of any “climate crisis”.
It’s just the weather in D.C. pic.twitter.com/r015cScVZg
— Ryan Maue (@RyanMaue) May 23, 2019
The Washington, D.C., area was hit with a tornado warning Thursday afternoon. An intense, but short-lived storm, brought heavy rainfall and high winds. No tornado hit D.C., however, but the whole event was enough to inspire Ocasio-Cortez to post on Instagram.
“Different parts of the country deal with different climate issues,” Ocasio-Cortez wrote in her Instagram post. “But ALL of these threats will be increasing in intensity as climate crisis grows and we fail to act appropriately. #GreenNewDeal.
The Green New Deal is Ocasio-Cortez’s signature bill, calling for net-zero greenhouse gas emissions within ten years and vastly expanding the federal welfare state.
Ocasio-Cortez “does not know the difference between weather and climate,” Maue tweeted. “Let’s try an easy analogy: Weather is what outfit you wear heading out the door. Climate is your closet wardrobe.”
The Congresswoman @AOC does not know the difference between weather and climate.
Let’s try an easy analogy:
Weather is what outfit you wear heading out the door.
Climate is your closet wardrobe. pic.twitter.com/mmdLr6F2mD
— Ryan Maue (@RyanMaue) May 24, 2019
Ocasio-Cortez did somewhat walk back her initial claims by apparently Googling around for information on tornadoes and global warming. She noted that tornadoes are “challenging” to tie to global warming.
The freshman lawmaker, however, went on to note that “we DO know for sure that tornadoes HAVE been changing.” She cited a PBS article claiming that tornadoes are “sliding into the Midwest and Southeast.”
That claim is based on a 2018 study, though it did not attribute eastward shifting tornadoes to global warming. But researchers have long noted there are complications in trying to study long-term tornado trends.
“The reporting has been susceptible to changes in population density, modifications to reporting procedures and training, the introduction of video and social media, and so on,” reads the 2017 National Climate Assessment (NCA).
“These have led to systematic, non-meteorological biases in the long-term data record,” the NCA reads.
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I can remember a time when there was one tornado, caught by a black and white movie camera, no audio, no shrieking, no bleeping . That’s the tornado we saw over and over. Now there’s a million of ’em, digital, in colour, many of the same event. People’s lives upended like field mice under a plow. Sensationalism does introduce bias.
Back during the war of 1812 when the British sacked and burned the Whitehouse a thunderstorm and Tornado came up and the rain doused the fires and there were no cars,backyard BBQ.s and No Air Conditioners back then Al Gore, Leonardo DiCaprio,Laurie David,Barack Obama and NO GREENPEACE either
We never had tornadoes until the climate allegedly changed?
12 years until the world ends. Just kidding.
AOC is a stand up comic .
The problem Democrats have is they think people are as stupid as they are .
They represent the interests of their extreme green bag men and do virtually nothing constructive .
The socialist left may be waking up . They are figuring it out, you can’t threaten and talk trash half the country then hope to be elected .
Best to pretend you care , lie through your teeth and screw them after you get elected maybe but outright bullying is not a winning formula .
Most of them still can’t resist claiming climate change is the biggest priority .
You know an “existential threat ” , that only they and their billionaire bag men have the great wisdom to see .
As long as the socials throw real people priorities to the bottom of the list they are going no where .
The socialist left may be waking up . They are figuring it out, you can’t threaten and talk trash half the country then hope to be elected .
Best to pretend you care , lie through your teeth and screw them after you get elected maybe but outright bullying is not a winning formula .
Most of them still can’t resist claiming climate change is the biggest priority .
You know an “existential threat ” , that only they and their billionaire bag men have the great wisdom to see .
As long as the socials throw real people priorities to the bottom of the list they are going no where .
The socialist left may be waking up . They are figuring it out, you can’t threaten and talk trash half the country then hope to be elected .
Best to pretend you care , lie through your teeth and screw them after you get elected maybe but outright bullying is not a winning formula .
Most of them still can’t resist claiming climate change is the biggest priority .
You know an “existential threat ” , that only they and their billionaire bag men have the great wisdom to see .
As long as the socials throw real people priorities to the bottom of the list they are going no where .