Earth's Hottest Month

[kenmbz]

We just had 5 tornadoes here this year and 1 last year.
Which is 6 more than in recorded history.
Make of it what you will Man/Earth - but things are changing measurably.

 

[Torvy]

More tornadoes everywhere since they figured out how to use radar to identify them. It used to be that they had to touch down and actually damage something.

 

[EddieWalker]

We just had 5 tornadoes here this year and 1 last year.
Which is 6 more than in recorded history.
Make of it what you will Man/Earth - but things are changing measurably.

Are you in Pennsylvania? I ask, because it says S.E. PA on your avatar, and I believe PA stands for Pennsylvania.

According to this website, https://data.ydr.com/tornado-archive/ there have been 935 tornadoes in PA since 1950

Which brings up a good point. How many people think that just because what they think is happening around them, that means Global Warming is real?

 

[/pine]

In one way I think man may be contributing to "some" changes in atmospheric conditions (like tornadoes) is via ' The Butterfly Effect'...more people=more changes...like more pavement and heat reflecting roofs etc., etc...all cause up drafting which is the same as wind shear which create vortexes that can develop into tornadoes....just like a butterfly flapping its wings makes a change...
more people= more butterflys

 

[Hay Dude]

Are you in Pennsylvania? I ask, because it says S.E. PA on your avatar, and I believe PA stands for Pennsylvania.

According to this website, https://data.ydr.com/tornado-archive/ there have been 935 tornadoes in PA since 1950

Which brings up a good point. How many people think that just because what they think is happening around them, that means Global Warming is real?

Thats an average of 13 tornados a year. (935/71=13).
I live in extreme SE PA and work on both sides of the PA/DE border. Have yet to see anything more than a minor tornado. One happened recently are tore up a car dealership, but theyre a joke compared to the tornado alley monsters.
I see zero evidence of climate change around here. Everything looks/feels the same. July was pretty hot, but today it was like 78 and rain, which is way cooler than normal.
Typical hot, muggy August.
Even the "brood X" invasion of cicadas never happened. lol

Climate change. Of course climate changes, oceans rise & fall, sometimes the weather is fickle.
Nothing to lose your mind over and end up on happy pills from it.

 

[rekees4300]

I've put this thread on "TBN Death Watch".

I'm the OP. There have been many Climate Change threads on TBN over the years. The topic is interesting but devisive so the threads are usually locked.

 

[Midniteoyl]

Increases in CO2 lead to increased plant life which decreases CO2 and increases O2.

Not so much 'plants' as much as cyanobacterium like Prochlorococcus which produces something like 20% of our oxygen, a higher percentage than all of the tropical rainforests on land, combined. The ocean provides anywhere from 50% to 80% of our oxygen and every time it gets just a little warmer, these cynobacterium, algae, bloom like crazy.

 

[BravoXray]

I see zero evidence of climate change around here. Everything looks/feels the same. July was pretty hot, but today it was like 78 and rain, which is way cooler than normal.

Well, I guess if everything is hunky-dorey in PA, that pretty much settles the climate change debate.

 

[MossRoad]

More tornadoes everywhere since they figured out how to use radar to identify them. It used to be that they had to touch down and actually damage something.

Still is. It's not a tornado until it touches down. Otherwise it's a funnel cloud.

 

[MossRoad]

I used to go ice fishing in the lake behind my parent's house starting when I was about 10 years old. Some years I could get on right after Thanksgiving and last ice was usually the end of March. Then as years have gone by, I could get on between Christmas and New Years and last ice was mid-March. Now, in the past 10 years, I haven't been able to get on the ice until mid-late January and last ice is first of March. The past 2 years, the lake has not frozen over completely. Several people have fallen through and drown.

I've also had to mow my lawn around Thanksgiving that past couple years. We used to stop mowing in late September.

And, we've had extensive fruit damage in spring because things warm up so early that the fruit buds, but we get some late freezes and that nips that in the bud, so to speak.

Spring is about 4 weeks earlier and fall lasts about 4 weeks longer. Winter seems about 6 weeks shorter in total.

I use less and less firewood to heat the house since I installed the woodburner 15 years ago. It's just not as cold.

I only shoveled/plowed the driveway three times last winter and twice the winter before that. It used to be an almost weekly chore.

So, yes, I see evidence of something changing here in the past 50 years.