Radio Smart Talk for Wednesday, June 1:
More than 1300 tornadoes have been confirmed in the U.S. this year, including three twisters that touched down in the midstate last Thursday night. Tuscaloosa, Alabama and Joplin, Missouri are now synonymous with death and destruction caused by tornadoes after storms ripped through those two cities this spring. More than 500 people have been killed in tornadoes in 2011.
With a record-setting month of April (875 tornadoes) and strong storms throughout the nation, many are asking if the severe weather is related to climate change.
Wednesday's Radio Smart Talk examines whether there is any relationship between the tornadoes and climate change with Dr. Donald A. Brown, Associate Professor, Environmental Ethics, Science, and Law, Penn State University.
Learn more in Tornadoes 101 from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
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Few folks who believe human activity plays a role in climate change believe that human activity is the SOLE cause of global climate change. Surely periodic changes unrelated to human activity DO play a role. But, the overwhelming majority of scientists with expertise in this area agree - human activity does play a significant role.
We must stop this silly infighting and work together to reduce cabon emissions, while we can still make a difference.
the conditions now..? they were interested in TESLA'S ideas..
There are theories that solar activity plays a huge part of "global warming" although it cannot be denied that humanity is creating a mess, also. I think since Mars has had a recent large-scale polar melt cycle we can rule out man's involvement there - but at the same time if the melt there is solar-only, then the melt here can be at least partially attributed to that, as well as man's involvement. If the scientist in the above article is correct, we may well enter into a long-term cooling cycle. Per Dr. Brown and Mr. Russell the mix of cool and warm is very volatile.
Either way, nature has a habit of cleaning up ever so often, and if that takes the form of storms/hurricanes/tornadoes, that's a part of the natural cycle that has always existed.
We should do everything in our power to make sure that we don't make the problem worse than it has to be.
I watched America cite Saddam Hussein for the mass murder by poison gas of 10,000s of Kurdish people.....(gas that was obtained from America)......while completely ignoring America's role in the greatest mass poisoning in history---the direct application of 20,000,000 gallons of carcinogenic dioxins on more than 5 million Vietnamese, who are still dying of latent cancers.
Americans saw Hitler's Germany as genocidal, which it was, but dismiss as happenstance the genocide of the millions of native people here before European settlers.
Science is science.
The data is clear.
Belief favors those who wish to avoid their own accountability and responsibility.
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