Well, it didn't take long for Alex Jones to poop out a ridiculous conspiracy theory surrounding the monster tornado that ripped through Moore, Oklahoma on Monday. Did you know the government has "weather weapons" capable of not only creating tornadoes but moving them around? ...read more
An ardent supporter of fiscal austerity, Oklahoma Sen. Tom Coburn is demanding budget cuts are made elsewhere before funding disaster relief for the tornado victims in his state. Coburn spokesman Jon Hart wrote to Politico telling them that "He’ll [Coburn] ask his colleagues ...read more
UPDATE:Via Brad Blog, Dr. Kevin Trenberth of the National Center for Atmospheric Research defined specifically how the climate crisis magnified the Oklahoma tornado: The main climate change connection is via the basic instability of the low level air that creates the convection ...read more
The Tornado that destroyed an entire suburb in Oklahoma and killed hundreds of people might well have not happened if humans hadn't been pumping insane amounts of CO2 into the atmosphere. Or it still might have. We really don't know for sure. What we do know is that thousands ...read more
This afternoon in Oklahoma: A massive tornado with winds of up to 200 miles per hour devastated the Oklahoma City suburb of Moore on Monday, killing at least 37 people as it tore up entire tracts of homes, two schools and a hospital, leaving a wake of tangled wreckage. The ...read more
