Another Scumbag Tries To Exploit Human Tragedy
By Paul Homewood
https://twitter.com/JeffDSachs/statuses/402277579085721600
It did not take long for this scumbag to jump on yesterday’s tornadoes in the Midwest, and link it to AGW.
NOAA’s Storm Prediction Centre has the facts, though.
http://www.spc.noaa.gov/wcm/#data
Certainly, these sort of tornado outbreaks are unusual in November, but still happen every few years.
As for his assertions about “human induced warming”, perhaps the moron might like to explain why tornadoes for the last two years have been amongst the lowest on record?
http://www.spc.noaa.gov/wcm/torngraph-big.png
And why severe tornadoes were much more frequent before 1980?
http://www1.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/cmb/images/tornado/clim/EF3-EF5.png
Apparently Sachs is a “Former United Nations adviser and economist”. I suppose that rather says it all!
I suggest Mr Sachs crawls back into the woodwork.
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JDS is one of the many reasons I am no longer a subscriber to Scientific American.
Thanks for keeping folks aware of the many douche bags in love with a cult otherwise known as AGW
Reblogged this on libslayer2013.
Association with the UN discredits Sachs. Association with Sachs discredits the UN.
Which of the above statements is even truer than the other? It’s a puzzle.
Nope nothing that unusual to see here
http://www.accuweather.com/en/features/trend/how_rare_was_midwest_tornado_outbreak/20074227
I notice that the majority of twits and reports on this incident are reporting the damage and most, if not all, have some link to CAWC. Little is said about the human suffering, virtually no wishing of condolences, and little human compassion expressed. At least 50 homes were leveled. One person has been confirmed dead. Nearby Peoria also suffered heavy damage after the tornado.
These are the reports from the maggots of humankind living off the putrid carcass of misfortune.
Oddly the one in HuffPo reports “Washington Mayor Gary Manier reportedly told people to “please pray” for the town in the wake of the damage.”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/17/washington-illinois-torna_n_4292667.html
More absooute misinformation. Absolute hysteria whenever weather events happen, as they always have and always will.
Paul – we were talking earlier on how they measured tornadoes differently in the past. This change in observation practice may explain why severe tornadoes appear to be more frequent before 1980.
Some neutral researchers say there was a tendency to assign higher F-ratings, before Fujita improved the standards in mid- to late 70s – he got lots of data from the Super-Outbreak in 1974, which you can see in the above graph of severe tornadoes.
Anyway, on the main point, there’s a lot of weather hysteria around these days.
Is there a link, Stephen?
I’ve not got the reference to hand, but I have seen something from NOAA that rubbishes any tornado data before the 1960’s. That’s why I never graph before 1970.
Paul, Jeff Masters quotes Harold Brooks at:
http://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/are-tornadoes-getting-stronger-and-more-frequent
According to Brooks (2013), “Tornadoes in the early part of the official National Weather Service record (1950-approximately 1975) are rated with higher ratings than the 1975 – 2000 period, which, in turn, had higher ratings than 2001 – 2007.” Also, beginning in 2007, NOAA switched from the F-scale to the EF-scale for rating tornado damage, causing additional problems with attempting to assess if tornadoes are changing over time.
Brooks, H.E., 2013, “Severe thunderstorms and climate change,” Atmospheric Research, Volume 123, 1 April 2013, Pages 129–138, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosres.2012.04.002
I may have a copy of Brooks (2013) somewhere in my files but not at hand this evening.
btw, Brooks puts the change at 1975, but the Super-Outbreak in 1974 was measured very well, in great detail, by Fujita.