While the timing of this trend lines up with the planet’s rising temperatures, scientists are hesitant to definitively attribute tornadoes’ clustering behavior to human-caused climate change.

“The link between climate change and tornadoes is still pretty tenuous,” Dr. Fricker said. “It’s a really open and difficult question for us.” One difficulty is that tornadoes are too small on a planetary scale, and too ephemeral, to show up in the global mathematical models that scientists use to study climate change.

  • Alto
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    365 months ago

    Guys I’m starting to think this climate change thing might be bad

    • TubeTalkerX
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      335 months ago

      Now now let’s not rush to conclusions here.

      We’ll give it another 20 years of doing the same old same and see where we are then, alright?

      Now, let’s all get in my F350 and drive into town for some ice cream!

      • Lath
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        155 months ago

        Hell no! We all got our own! Let’s race! Last one there has tiny feet!