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Please stop with tornadoes == climate change. It's not just wrong, it's idiotic.


JamesSavik

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We had a terrible tornado that ran through Mississippi two weeks ago Friday. Many talk babblers have attributed this to climate change. It's not. The South and Mid-West are prone to seasonal tornado outbreaks. It seems worse because our population is denser. Tornadoes that used to blow down trees out in the country are more apt to hit something now.

The Rolling Fork tornado isn't even the worst tornado in our state's history. In 1966, an EF-5 destroyed a large swath of South Jackson, killed three scores of people and went as far as Alabama. That's NOT climate change. It's seasonal weather for our region.

 

Candlestick Park Tornado Outbreak, 1966

 

If you are thinking holy shit, how do you live with that, think it through. Every part of our planet is prone to some sort of some natural calamity. Sure, the really horrific ones like asteroid impacts and tsunamis are extremely rare, but they can happen. The West Coast has earthquakes, wildfires and sleeping supervolcanos. The East Coast has ancient earthquake faults that quiver sporadically and if the Cumbre Vieja Volcano were to blow, everyone from Florida to Maine might surf to the Midwest.

Life is not a safe condition. Live it well. It can end instantly with no warning.

Is that a tornado siren? DOH!

 

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It’s easy to blame everything on climate change, and anyone who isn’t dialled into this narrative is labelled a denier. The climate is changing; everyone knows that, but it is constantly changing, and there’s nothing we can do to stop it.

Politicians never miss an opportunity to scare the public into believing the world is about to end unless we change our lives, but there is little evidence to support a climate emergency. Climatologists who are not on the government payroll will tell you the planet is warming up because we’re still coming out of the last ice age, and it will get a lot warmer regardless of how much we cut back on fossil fuels. They are looking at the bigger picture, yet we’re prepared to risk our very existence on the evidence gathered since records began. That was only a hundred and forty years ago; we need to go back millions of years to even begin to understand how the planet has evolved and predict the future.

Common sense needs to kick in at some point, and the public need to hear the arguments on both sides rather than governments shutting down anyone who disagrees with their narrative. That’s how we learn and can make informed decisions instead of running around like proverbial headless chickens.

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18 hours ago, lawfulneutralmage said:

Unfortunately, since scientists depend on grants both public and private to fund their studies and research and access to those are heavily weighted toward those who adhere to the current narratives in vogue, any citation claiming X percent of scientists believe anything is virtually worthless.

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1 hour ago, drpaladin said:

Unfortunately, since scientists depend on grants both public and private to fund their studies and research and access to those are heavily weighted toward those who adhere to the current narratives in vogue, any citation claiming X percent of scientists believe anything is virtually worthless.

Can you give any sources with evidence, direct or indirect, for your claim?

You have a "dr" in your nick, do you have a PhD or have you ever made a scientific publication?

I am not trying to anger you or anyone else. I find making such a statement without any supporting evidence very dangerous. People like us (assumption here, sorry if assuming that you are LGBTQ+ is incorrect) are very quickly at the receiving end of statements made without any supporting evidence like "all homos are pedophiles."

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