NBC Meteorologist: Cooler Waters, Not Global Warming, Behind Tornadoes
Jeff Poor, Business & Media Institute
13 May 2008
http://www.businessandmedia.org/articles/2008/20080513100127.aspx
Global warming alarmists have frequently attributed extreme
weather incidents to manmade global warming, but an NBC Weatherplus.com
meteorologist burst "Nightly News" anchor Brian Williams's bubble May 12
when he said recent tornadoes are actually thought to be caused by
cooler waters.
"I talked to three people, casual conversation today, all of them
smart saying, 'I don't know, we must be doing something to our Earth.'
So, once and for all, what's going on here?" Williams asked
meteorologist Bill Karins in an interview about tornadoes that have
ravaged parts of the southern United States.
But Karins didn't give any manmade reasons behind the increased
activity. According to Karins, it was the natural phenomenon called La
Niņa.
"Well, there are some correlations that can be made," Karins said.
"Global warming - not quite one of them. La Niņa is more likely."
According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
(NOAA), La Niņa is unusually cold ocean temperatures in the Equatorial
Pacific - not warm ocean temperatures, which would be a result of a
warming globe. Karins explained that La Niņa is what's causing the
larger tornadoes.
"All we can really try to do is try find out what the triggers are
and try to get people the most warning possible," Karins explained.
"And, one of the new studies that came out was talking about the
connection to La Niņa. Now that's actually cooler water in the Pacific.
We just got done with that and what these storms do is they tend to
produce larger tornadoes. And, this is kind of like a new theory and
thinking that's come out."
According to the "Nightly News" re****t, 858 tornadoes have touched
down thus far in 2008. Compared to other years at this point: there were
600 in 2007, 510 in 2006 and 220 in 2005. Fatalities are also up -
indicating increased severity of tornadoes - to 96 this year. There were
81 deaths at this point in 2007, 67 deaths in 2006 and 38 deaths in
2005.
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