From President Joe Biden on down, the usual suspects are already rushing to suggest that last week’s deadly tornados are yet another reason the world needs to do more about climate change. Yet no science supports the claim that tornados or any other form of humanity-threatening extreme weather is on the upswing, let along links the supposed threat to global warming.
Fact is, every natural disaster these days — flooding, hurricanes, heat waves, drought, etc. — gets flogged as a reason for climate action, even though the worldwide death toll from extreme weather has been dropping steadily for decades.
It’s just a false talking point that activists push because people buy it, and that the media hype because it racks up clicks.
The fact is that tornados are not becoming more frequent; the average remains about 1,200 observed each year, ranging from 900 to 1,600 or so. (More are reported than back in the 1950s and before, but that’s because “storm chasing” has become a thing.)
Warming might change when “tornado season” hits, but no scientific studies have yet shown any such link.
Equally important, the standard anti-warming agenda would do far more damage to humanity than all natural disasters put together — by impoverishing us all. We simply don’t yet have practical, affordable alternatives to fossil fuels (which, by the way, are still what produce most of the electricity for your Tesla).
Global warming is real, but not the catastrophic threat that the media-political-activist complex pretends. The hysterical, nonstop hype poses a far greater danger.