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To: TimF who wrote (613483)	5/27/2011 7:36:19 PM
From: tejek	1 Recommendation Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1577147

For tornadoes the recorded history is only 60 years old Exactly. Far too short to support your conclusions. What are my conclusions, Tim? Please tell me. And even if we are seeing more tornadoes, tornadoes are bit a sign of global warming. I don't know what you're saying here. There is some evidence that cooler weather would cause more tornadoes. That's not solidly proven, but the point is there is no strongly supported link between more tornadoes and global warming. Hurricanes might more reasonably be connected to global warming, there is some theory that suggests warmer temperatures would cause more storms and more severe storms, but even here the evidence is not very solid, your have theory, without much concrete data backing it up. Do you understand that global warming is not just about the planet getting warmer? That global warming will lead to bigger and more severe storms? That warmer air carries greater amounts of moisture than cooler air, leading to bigger and bigger rainfalls and snowfalls? That warmer air can lead to greater windspeeds? I don't think American conservatives really understand what global warming is.

To: TimF who wrote (613483)	5/28/2011 4:22:42 PM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1577147

"but the point is there is no strongly supported link between more tornadoes and global warming." There you go again. Chaos theory was created to help model weather. And it works, our models vastly improved when we started to use it. One of the predictions of chaos theory is that when a chaotic system transitions from one strange attractor to another, the system starts hitting extremes. Now unless you take the stance that more tornadoes is not an example of more extreme weather, well... Granted, if it was only tornadoes, it wouldn't mean much. But pretty much all weather phenomena has gotten more extreme over the past few decades. And the rate seems to be increasing. Now it is in no way a slam dunk, the only way to call it certain is after it already happens. But it sure isn't an argument against it. "your have theory, without much concrete data backing it up." Tim, almost all of your posts are theories without much concrete data to back it up. Try to be at least a little consistent.