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Is Climate Change Increasing Tornado Intensity? [1]

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Huffingtonpost.com - 5/18/13, Marlene Simmons

 

 

Tornado Climate Change

Lightning strikes from a storm illuminate a home damaged by a tornado on Hyde Park Lane at Country Club Rd. in Cleburne, Wednesday night, May 15, 2013.

 

With at least 10 tornadoes ripping through North Texas [2] in one night this week — leveling neighborhoods, killing six and injuring dozens — it might be tempting to call the twisters yet another instance of climate-fueled weather. But not so fast.

While most climate scientists agree that global warming is driving record heat waves, widespread drought, heavy rain and floods, intense hurricanes, and even monster snowstorms, tornadoes — at least for now — are a different story.

 

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