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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices

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To: combjelly who wrote (613638)5/30/2011 1:04:50 PM
From: TimF1 Recommendation  Read Replies (1) of 1577223
 
when a chaotic system transitions from one strange attractor to another, the system starts hitting extremes.

Can be used as an argument, or really a pseudo-argument, for just about anything. It doesn't show, or strongly imply that a warming globe would lead to more tornadoes.

In any case we don't have evidence of strong recent warming, or of a significant increase in tornadoes (this year is a bad year, but that's largely more tornadoes hitting towns and cities, and to the extent its an actual increase in number and/or severity of tornadoes, it follows a recent span of no confirmed F5 or EF5 tornadoes from 1999 to 2007.
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