Relatively, we haven't been recording weather events for all that long in our history. However, it would seem that devastating tornadoes have been around longer than automobiles, airplanes, aerosol cans, and 2-ply toilet paper have been threats to our environment.
- On May 7, 1840, a tornado in Mississippi killed 317 people.
- On February 19, 1884, over 60 tornadoes swept the South East killing at least 170 people.
- On May 27, 1896, 305 people were killed, over 1000 injured, and over $10 million in property damage was caused by a tornado in the St. Louis area.
- On March 23, 1913, tornadoes struck the east, north east, and west Iowa. The death toll in Omaha, Nebraska alone was 94 with 350 injured and over 600 homes lost.
- On March 18, 1925, the "Tri-State Tornado" killed 747 people from Missouri and Tennessee to Indiana.
(these and more historical tornado events at weather.com)
So unless these were all caused by Cow Flatulence, global warming is not the cause of devastating tornadoes. There have been many other horrible tornadoes besides the ones listed up through today. It happens, and its not a pleasant experience, but to use the death and destruction caused by a naturally occurring weather phenomenon to prop up your own agenda is dishonest and despicable.
See the quote at the end of the article:
Kerry’s assertion tornado activity is related to any type of climate change is questionable based on the writings of at least one meteorologist. Roger Edwards, a meteorologist at the Storm Prediction Center of the National Weather Center in Norman, Okla., has doubts about any global warming and tornado relationship.John, here's an idea... keep your mouth shut and stop trying to be relevant. You're not. Its over. Time to Move On.
“As of this writing, no scientific studies solidly relate climatic global temperature trends to tornadoes,” Edwards wrote on the Earth & Sky Web site in April 2007. “I don’t expect any such results in the near future either, because tornadoes are too small, short–lived, hard to measure and count, and too dependent on day to day, even minute to minute weather conditions.”
Oh, and I suppose the "Global Cooling" that we were supposedly threatened by in the 70s was responsible for the 1974 Super Outbreak of 148 tornadoes in 13 states that killed 315 people and caused over $600 million in damage.
I'm sorry that more than 50 people were killed and countless more lives were forever changed in the tornadoes on Tuesday. Any loss of life due is a sad and tragic event. But let's not stand on the shattered houses and the memories of those who were lost in order to advance an agenda that at the best is factually unproven and more likely completely false.
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I could not agree more! John Kerry needs to move on. I hate how these liberals try to pin global warming as the cause of everything evil in our world. What is next? Claiming that global warming is the cause for Britney Spears' mental problems?
It is CLEAR that anytime the Liberals pin anything on Global Warming and the idea that it is 'man-made', that they are planting the seeds of the end of America, they will and are supporting laws to be passed that will limit freedoms, take away consumers choices and increase taxation to support 'clean energy' that costs more to make then it saves people to use...
It is all a scheme to induce guilt on you for 'the weather' that has been on the planet for billions of years and they want you to believe that the last 60 years man has caused the weather to change and cause someone to die.
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