A Link Between Climate Change and Joplin Tornadoes? Never!

The US government and media are like children who have joined a strange cult, and environmentalists take on the role of frustrated parents trying to show connections between behavior and consequences. Many in the US stubbornly resist connecting extreme weather events with climate change. News anchors, reporters, government weather officials studiously avoid mentioning climate change, carbon emissions, a melting Arctic, moisture-laden warm air, sustainability or the fact that the US with 5 percent of the world’s population uses 25 percent of its energy. Instead, the media and government mindlessly repeat a mantra, “no single weather event can ever be directly tied to climate change,” contends environmentalist Bill McKibben in a Washington Post essay. The volatile weather is in line with longtime predictions from global climatologists. The US clings to low prices for fossil fuels and unsustainable practices even as tornadoes, droughts, wildfires, floods and other extreme events unleash economic chaos and suffering. – YaleGlobal