Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/04/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]While I do believe that global warming is occurring, I don't think it has much bearing on the squall line of tornadoes that this last week has seen. We've only been collecting this specific data for about 100 years, maybe just a bit longer but the real research into severe weather is rather young. Anyways, the models don't really suggest that such a local effect is anything but a wave in the jet. It's definitely a record setting April with number of tornadoes in CONUS but we've had several spring seasons which were very severe during the last few decades. There isn't really a pattern aside from the el nino / la nina variation in moisture over the eastern Pacific but that's taken into account so this has just been a "perfect storm" with regard to all the components being in place at the right time. This isn't discounting any effect of global warming but there is no data to suggest that it contributed. Had it, we'd have been having increasing intensity and frequency of storms like these over the last 20 years which we haven't. We can't discount the fact that we're a global community now communicating instantly across the whole planet. We hear about more and with more frequency. We're also assaulted by the same information from various media we surround ourselves with. This is to say that we've had some incredible storms in the past, we always do, but they don't often hit urban areas like happened this week in St. Louis, Tuscaloosa, and Birmingham. F4 tornadoes hit yearly but most often in very rural areas, sometimes going almost unnoticed. Anyways, I just like to play devil's advocate, especially with the weather and the media field day that it sometimes creates. All that said, what has happened this last week with severe weather is absolutely horrible. A friend of mine was over today helping us with the porch and he's from Birmingham. He wasn't in a good mood since the place where he grew up is gone. His family is ok but we've seen what happened to the area. My thoughts go out to all those who have been affected. Phil Forrest On Fri, 29 Apr 2011 10:56:05 +0530 Jayanand Govindaraj <jayanand at gmail.com> wrote: > The scope and intensity were normal? If you have been getting these > every 10 years or so for the last 100 years, then, yes, you need do > nothing about Global Warming. > Cheers > Jayanand > > On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 10:52 AM, Robert Meier > <robertmeier at usjet.net>wrote: > > > These tornados were caused by a warming of the atmosphere? > > > > > > > > On Apr 29, 2011, at 12:19 AM, Jayanand Govindaraj wrote: > > > > +1 > >> It will only continue and intensify, unless humankind as a whole > >> takes Global Warming seriously, instead of playing politics with > >> the topic. Cheers > >> Jayanand > >> > >> On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 9:09 PM, George Lottermoser > >> <imagist3 at mac.com > >> >wrote: > >> > >> > >>> On Apr 28, 2011, at 10:24 AM, Jim Nichols wrote: > >>> > >>> Thanks for thinking of us. > >>>> > >>> > >>> > >>> Good to hear positive reports from our Southern LUGgers and their > >>> families. > >>> My heart feels for those less fortunate. > >>> > >>> Regards, > >>> George Lottermoser > >>> george at imagist.com > >>> http://www.imagist.com > >>> http://www.imagist.com/blog > >>> http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> Leica Users Group. > >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more > >>> information > >>> > >>> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Leica Users Group. > >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more > >> information > >> > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Leica Users Group. > > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information