2006 Tornado Count Four Times 2005's - VOA

[hatrack]

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Government meteorologist Dan McCarthy says, "So far in 2006 this is way above average."

Unofficially, the storm season begins in April or May. On average, there are about 85 damaging tornadoes reported each year in the United States.

Scientists say this current cycle is the result of a remarkably warm winter in the South, and warmer than usual temperatures in the Gulf of Mexico. When moist weather in the South, collides with cold fronts from the North and West, the result is: funnel clouds and tornadoes.

Scientists are not suggesting the severe U.S. weather is a direct result of global warming trends or conditions, only that these weather patterns are likely to continue as is for the near future.

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"Global Warming"? What is this "Global Warming" of which you speak?

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http://www.voanews.com/english/2006-04-19-voa31.cfm

[bloom]

1. 4 times - I knew we were getting a lot

Seemed like tornado warnings every other day.

[oscar111]

2. ORBITING SUNSHADE could cool us off eno to weaken most tornadoes

if we terraform enought to cool to summers no hotter than in May, as May used to be.. back then, tornadoes were not so strong, and fewer in number. Inaction will cost more than a sunshade.. inaction will allow Katrinas to increase in number, costing us to repair NYC, Miami, Huston and the like.

see link to CBS news in the thread below,
and dont focus on Teller... Another guy is also into the idea.. Dr. Caldera, i think it is.


http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=115x50746

[Dogmudgeon]

3. We won't have to

All this heat is causing the polar ice to melt in great quantities.

The fresh water dilutes the seawater.

The seawater is then less able to conduct heat throughout the oceanic system.

As the equatorial seas heat up, the North Atlantic and North Pacific, and the entire circum-Antarctic ocean will turn sharply colder.

The sub-Arctic regions will act like giant refrigeration units, pumped by warm air from both the equator and the poles (for a number of reasons, there will be tremendous heating at the poles).

There will be much snow, and global warming will turn into a refrigeration cycle, just as it has for the past 2.5 million years.

We will then spend the money on building giant space lenses. But if the Republicans are in power, they will be concave.

--p!

[Delphinus]

4. So, prepare for the cold is what you are saying!

Seems, on a computer incarnation before this one, I had a link for someone who was saying basically the same thing. Not by fire, but by ice. I'll have to see if I can find it again.