While the timing of this trend lines up with the planet’s rising temperatures, scientists are hesitant to definitively attribute tornadoes’ clustering behavior to human-caused climate change.
“The link between climate change and tornadoes is still pretty tenuous,” Dr. Fricker said. “It’s a really open and difficult question for us.” One difficulty is that tornadoes are too small on a planetary scale, and too ephemeral, to show up in the global mathematical models that scientists use to study climate change.
I think it’s because we just don’t burn enough clean coal.
“Propane is a clean burning fuel”, said an absolute liar and a terrible father
Taste the meat, not the destruction of our planet; uh-hehehuh.
(No idea how to type Hank Hill’s laugh.)
Are you talking about Hank Hill, or the real human that propagated propane through our world?
“That boy ain’t right”
gee girls what could it possibly be
Unhealthy miasma
Gonna go get my healing crystals, brb.
My state of Ohio, as of April 22nd, has had 35 confirmed tornadoes (and I know there are quite a few still to be officially added). The average for the ENTIRE YEAR is 22. We had 57 last year. Something is not OK…
Guys I’m starting to think this climate change thing might be bad
Now now let’s not rush to conclusions here.
We’ll give it another 20 years of doing the same old same and see where we are then, alright?
Now, let’s all get in my F350 and drive into town for some ice cream!
Hell no! We all got our own! Let’s race! Last one there has tiny feet!
Got like 4 tornados within an hour of each other last night in Huntsville.
Certainly not loving it.
Tenuous? There has been plenty of research done, I’ll link a few below. Not to mention the obvious, there’s more energy going into an energetic system. Increasing temperature also increases the amount of humidity the air can hold. Convective available potential energy and lifted condensation levels (CAPE and LCL - energy and humidity/dew point) are two important pieces of the combined “significant tornado parameter” used in mesoscale discussions.
Changes in Convective Available Potential Energy and Convective Inhibition under Global Warming
Over the United States, Diffenbaugh et al. (2013) and Seeley and Romps (2015a) found robust increases in CAPE from 1970–99 to 2070–99 under RCP8.5 scenarios using CMIP5 models. CAPE and the related vertical velocity (√2*CAPE) were also found to increase over east of the Rockies from late twentieth century to late twenty-first century in other modeling studies (i.e., Del Genio et al. 2007; Trapp et al. 2007; Van Klooster and Roebber 2009; Brooks 2013).
Over eastern Australia, Allen et al. (2014)found increased CAPE from 1980–2000 to 2079–99 due to increased moisture under high emissions scenarios using two global climate models.
In the tropics, Seeley and Romps (2015b)found dramatically increased buoyancy in the upper troposphere and thus increased CAPE under increasing sea surface temperatures from their idealized simulations under the radiative-convective equilibrium (Romps 2014).
Romps (2016) further predicted about 6%–7% increases in CAPE per 1°C surface warming of the current tropics.
Other cloud-resolving simulations (Romps 2011; Muller et al. 2011; Singh and O’Gorman 2013) and global climate model simulations (Sobel and Camargo 2011) also showed increasing CAPE in response to surface warming in the tropics and other regions, including increased extreme CAPE values across the tropics and subtropics (Singh et al. 2017).
Yes, but it’s not at all obvious why that set of things would change the temporal distribution of tornado formation in this way without increasing their quantity.
Viral marketing for that new movie is wild
It’s because of Woke, of course.
I’ve lived in the same part of Ohio my entire life (I’m 28) and in the entire time I’ve lived here we had exactly 1 tornado touch down in the county. Within the past two years alone we’ve had at least 4 in the state and two of which I ended up driving through by accident.
We’re all so fucked it’s unreal.
They do move in herds!