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Re: You never fail to disappoint!
I stand corrected! You did indeed post the link. Thanks
, I didn't see it the first time.
posted by
WriterofLight
on May 22, 2008 at 8:31 PM
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You never fail to disappoint!
For those who are interested, here's the link to my article that Xenox forgot to include: http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/WriterofLight9282/543479. If you will read it and the two subsequent articles on network coverage of the tornado season, you'll find extensive discussion of precisely why tornadoes are not caused by "global warming," insofar as "global warming" means human greenhouse gas emissions.
I did see that chart, and at first I did include it. But I decided against it because the same data can be deduced from the first chart, and I didn't want to create an excessively long article.
But here's something Xenox failed to mention: April and May are always the peak season for tornadoes. A study of tornadic activity for just about any year will bear that out, so the spike in the line is a moot point as far as "global warming" is concerned.
And as for this season being more severe than the last two, the point I raised about the decline in tornadoes from 2005 through 2007 is not addressed. The point was, would not there have been an increase through those years since "global warming" was supposedly worsening?
All that said, kudos to Xenox 
for not making the same mistake two of the three lamestream networks made in confusing preliminary reports with confirmed tornadoes.
posted by
WriterofLight
on May 22, 2008 at 8:21 PM
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Good Response
I am glad you took the time to put together your response on the global warming issue. In a way global warming is an ironic good thing -- it has made us take seriously a whole array of ecological issues societies around the world would not otherwise have focused on. But we're not out of the woods -- enormous, emerging middle classes in places such as India and China are replicating the consumption/waste patterns of Europe and North America, and reflecting a lot of pent-up demand in the process. Another irony is that as their diets change, they also begin to replicate the disease patterns of Europe and North America.
posted by
Earthbeat
on May 22, 2008 at 3:27 PM
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