Oops, sorry, it’s now global climate disruption. My Bad! Did Global Warming Cause NYC Tornado?
Flooded subways? A tornado in Brooklyn? It was tempting to blame it all on global warming.
Plenty of public officials were doing just that in the aftermath of a short but violent thunderstorm that paralyzed the nation’s largest mass transit network and tore the roofs off limestone townhouses. But in reality, it is not quite that simple, weather and climate experts say.
The storm, which gathered strength over Pennsylvania, drenched New Jersey and then pounded the city at sunrise Wednesday was strong but not particularly rare for a hot summer day, said Jeff Warner, a meteorologist at Pennsylvania State University.
Climate scientist James Hansen, director of NASA’s Goddard Institute of Space Studies, agreed: “You cannot blame a single specific event, such as this week’s storm, on climate change,” he said.
“However,” he added, “it is fair to ask whether the human changes have altered the likelihood of such events. There the answer seems to be ‘yes.'”
Breitbart continues on to point out the climahysteria, but, really, this is simply weather. It happens. I remember when I was a young lad seeing a waterspout off the Manasquan, NJ shore. That freaked a few parents out, I’ll tell you. I’ve been stuck in freak blizzards a few times, once at the top of a chair lift (fortunately, the ski patrol had liquor.) I’ve seen plenty of funnel clouds here in North Carolina, one time I saw about 8 while making a 7 mile drive. I’ve seen a storm in ’92 that moved from the west coast, through Texas and the Southeast, through North Carolina, making a mess, which became a massive Nor’easter that pounded the Jersey coast, uncovering cars buried in the sand after the great 1962 storm, ripping up the boardwalks, causing flooding, etc. Weather. Happens. I could go on and on, but, I’m sure we all have our own stories.
Naturally shifting weather patterns happen all the time. The past few years in the Raleigh area we have had very few tornado watches/warnings. Even t-storm activity seems down. The Earth is a dynamic, constantly changing system. Apparently, the climate alarmists, supposedly big believers in evolution, think the Earth should always stay static.
