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{"id":2373,"date":"2013-05-30T21:19:35","date_gmt":"2013-05-30T21:19:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greendustriesblog.com\/greendustries\/?p=2373"},"modified":"2013-05-30T21:23:17","modified_gmt":"2013-05-30T21:23:17","slug":"tornadoes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greendustriesblog.com\/greendustries\/2013\/05\/30\/tornadoes\/","title":{"rendered":"TORNADOES: Forces of Nature or New Extreme Weather Patterns From CLIMATE CHANGE?"},"content":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/ngm.nationalgeographic.com\/2012\/09\/extreme-weather\/miller-text\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-2375 aligncenter\" title=\"tornado_main\" src=\"http:\/\/greendustriesblog.com\/greendustries\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/tornado_main.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"433\" height=\"397\" \/><\/a>\r\n<\/br>\r\n\r\n<strong>What factors contribute to\u2028 extreme weather?<\/strong>\r\n<\/br>\r\nWhile many environmental groups have been warning about extreme weather conditions for a few years, the World Meteorological Organization announced in July 2003 that \u201cRecent scientific assessments indicate that, as the global temperatures continue to warm due to <a href=\"http:\/\/greendustriesblog.com\/greendustries\/2011\/11\/24\/humans-change-the-world-how-many-species-we-are-losing\/\" target=\"_blank\">climate change<\/a>, the number and intensity of extreme events might increase.\u201d\r\n<\/br>\r\n\r\n<strong>Of course global warming should lead to more\u2014and more powerful\u2014<\/strong><strong>tornadoes.<\/strong>\r\n\r\nWe're adding energy to the atmosphere by trapping heat with greenhouse gases, and tornadoes are the very picture of terrifying <a href=\"https:\/\/www-pls.llnl.gov\/?url=about_pls-atmospheric_earth_and_energy_division\" target=\"_blank\">atmospheric energy<\/a>.\r\n<\/br>\r\nLinking any particular weather event to climate change is always tricky, because weather is inherently random. But weather patterns can speak to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edf.org\/climate\/how-we-know-the-earth-is-warming\" target=\"_blank\">warming planet<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/greendustriesblog.com\/greendustries\/2013\/05\/30\/tornadoes\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more [...]<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ngm.nationalgeographic.com\/2012\/09\/extreme-weather\/miller-text\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2375 aligncenter\" title=\"tornado_main\" src=\"http:\/\/greendustriesblog.com\/greendustries\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/tornado_main.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"433\" height=\"397\" srcset=\"https:\/\/greendustriesblog.com\/greendustries\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/tornado_main.jpg 433w, https:\/\/greendustriesblog.com\/greendustries\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/tornado_main-300x275.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 433px) 100vw, 433px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<\/br><\/p>\n<p><strong>What factors contribute to\u2028 extreme weather?<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/br><br \/>\nWhile many environmental groups have been warning about extreme weather conditions for a few years, the World Meteorological Organization announced in July 2003 that \u201cRecent scientific assessments indicate that, as the global temperatures continue to warm due to <a href=\"http:\/\/greendustriesblog.com\/greendustries\/2011\/11\/24\/humans-change-the-world-how-many-species-we-are-losing\/\" target=\"_blank\">climate change<\/a>, the number and intensity of extreme events might increase.\u201d<br \/>\n<\/br><\/p>\n<p><strong>Of course global warming should lead to more\u2014and more powerful\u2014<\/strong><strong>tornadoes.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re adding energy to the atmosphere by trapping heat with greenhouse gases, and tornadoes are the very picture of terrifying <a href=\"https:\/\/www-pls.llnl.gov\/?url=about_pls-atmospheric_earth_and_energy_division\" target=\"_blank\">atmospheric energy<\/a>.<br \/>\n<\/br><br \/>\nLinking any particular weather event to climate change is always tricky, because weather is inherently random. But weather patterns can speak to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edf.org\/climate\/how-we-know-the-earth-is-warming\" target=\"_blank\">warming planet<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[568],"tags":[585,569,253,587,571,577,581,582,576,5,575,579,12,13,572,578,583,573,435,580,584,570,586,574],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greendustriesblog.com\/greendustries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2373"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greendustriesblog.com\/greendustries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greendustriesblog.com\/greendustries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greendustriesblog.com\/greendustries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greendustriesblog.com\/greendustries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2373"}],"version-history":[{"count":29,"href":"https:\/\/greendustriesblog.com\/greendustries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2405,"href":"https:\/\/greendustriesblog.com\/greendustries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2373\/revisions\/2405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greendustriesblog.com\/greendustries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greendustriesblog.com\/greendustries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greendustriesblog.com\/greendustries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}