Sentences with phrase «changing tornado outbreak»

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Viewing the thousands of tornadoes that have been reliably recorded in the U.S. over the past half century or so as a population has permitted us to ask new questions and discover new, important changes in outbreaks of these tornadoes.»

«The fact that we don't see the presently understood meteorological signature of global warming in changing outbreak statistics leaves two possibilities: either the recent increases are not due to a warming climate, or a warming climate has implications for tornado activity that we don't understand.

Adds Harold Brooks, senior scientist at NOAA's National Severe Storms Laboratory, who was not involved with this project, «The study is important because it addresses one of the hypotheses that has been raised to explain the observed change in number of tornadoes in outbreaks.

«Increasing tornado outbreaks: Is climate change responsible?

Elsner and his team point out the statistical trend — that «the risk of big tornado days featuring densely concentrated tornado outbreaks is on the rise» — but only a suggest a hypothesis for what environmental changes might be behind this trend.

Many have tried to link this outbreak to climate change, a connection that may exist but simply can't be drawn yet given the limited historical record for tornadoes.

And new research shows tornado outbreaks are getting more dangerous: More tornadoes are hitting during each round, even though the overall annual number of American twisters hasn't changed.

«Viewing the data on thousands of tornadoes that have been reliably recorded in the United States over the past half - century as a population has permitted us to ask new questions and discover new, important changes in outbreaks of these tornadoes,» Cohen said.

7:11 p.m. Updated Anthony Watts has posted a Wattsupwiththat.com item wrongly asserting that my concerns about statements implying a link between recent tornado outbreaks and human - driven climate change are new.

It's fine for Kevin Trenberth of the National Center for Atmospheric Research to say he feels «it is irresponsible not to mention climate change» when discussing tornado outbreaks.

The kind of framing used by McKibben in the Daily Beast also came up during the astounding tornado outbreaks earlier this year, as Michael Mann of Pennsylvania State University told ThinkProgress that «climate change is present in every single meteorological event.»

A tornado is an extreme event, but one whose causes, sensitivity to change and impacts have nothing to do with those related to an ice storm, or a heat wave or cold air outbreak or a drought.

And weather scientists do see a possible relationship between the weather phenomenon known as La Nina and the tornado outbreak, and some in the weather world are exploring whether climate change is causing a disruption in the El Nino / La Nina cycle.

One 2016 study found signs of a relationship between clusters of tornadoes in violent outbreaks and climate change.

More extreme and violent climate is a direct consequence of human - caused climate change (whether or not we can determine if these particular tornado outbreaks were caused or worsened by climate change).

Rarely is human - induced climate change mentioned as a cause or contributing factor in the recent outbreak of sever tornadoes although questions about causation are becoming more frequent on TV and newspapers in this writer's experience.

The outbreak of recent killer weather events including US tornadoes hitting Joplin, Missouri and Tuscaloosa, Alabama has everyone asking whether there is a link between tornadoes and human - induced climate change.