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From: Thomas A Watson3/11/2019 11:42:59 AM
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Poor poor bernnie, he cannot know who are science deniers as he does not have a clue about what science is.
Washington Times: “Tornado Drought” Impacting Democrat Climate Change Narrative
Eric Worrall / 2 hours ago March 11, 2019
Guest essay by Eric Worrall

Nature refusing to play along with climate crisis narratives.

‘Tornado drought’ dampens Democrats’ climate-change narrative

Bernie Sanders pushes climate-change narrative despite last year’s ‘tornado drought’

In the wake of last week’s deadly twister outbreak, Sen. Bernie Sanders declared that climate change is making tornadoes worse, to which the experts say: Not so fast.

Purdue University professor Ernest Agee, who has studied tornadoes for 50 years, said his research and that of other scientists shows that the number of violent U.S. tornadoes has in fact tapered off slightly in recent decades.



What’s more, 2018 was the first year since record-keeping began in 1950 without an EF4 or EF5 tornado, the most devastating twisters, as rated on the Enhanced Fujita Scale from EF0 to EF5, according to the NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center.

“We’re definitely not seeing a trend of increase. If anything, we’re seeing a decrease in the number of strong and violent tornadoes,” Mr. Agee said. “And that’s in papers that I’ve published and my students and other colleagues that are prominent in the field.”



Climate change is inevitably blamed for any natural disaster, and Mr. Sanders led the charge following the deadly tornado, saying in a Facebook post, “The science is clear, climate change is making extreme weather events, including tornadoes, worse. We must prepare for the impacts of climate change that we know are coming.”



He [Sanders] references our study, which says that climate change is shifting eastward. We just don’t know for sure if it’s precisely climate change that’s causing it, and certainly we cannot say at all that climate change caused the Lee County, Alabama, tornado,” Mr. Gensini said. “We’re not there as a science to be able to do that.”



Read more: washingtontimes.com
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