Look at the question a little bit different.

The US has more tornados than any other country, 1100-1200 per year. Canada is #2 with about 100 a year. Then conditions for our massive tornado count are a unique balance of weather patterns. As climate changes that balance could weaken/ break.

And while it would mean that this specific weather event becomes less common, others will become more prevalent. And the big hit is areas not used to certain events could get more. Texas has a hard time with blizzards, Maine has never seen a heatwave in the 110s.

This is like the cynical politician bringing a snowball to a meeting about global warming lol and why "global warming" fell out of favor even though it's true on average

Its a matter of WHERE.....Some places will get warmer, some will get wetter, some will get drier, Climate Change is far more accurate

As other people have said Tornadoes are caused by differences in temperature, we have some crazy conditions in the US for Tornadoes, we have hot air and cold air slamming into each other across the country and that causes a lot of Tornadoes, as that air temperature evens out there is less chaos to cause those vortices to form

We say there is going to be (and we see already) an increase in "severe weather events" but that doesn't necessarily mean "More Tornadoes" in America but it will mean more massive flooding, more wild thunderstorms, bigger Hurricanes, longer droughts, snowstorms in places that never got them and no snow in places where it always snows and it might very well mean that somewhere else might get more Tornadoes as things shift around....things may calm down in some places and ramp up in others, but its going to change everywhere

The real truth is that we don’t know what will happen with climate change. A decade ago who would have predicted Portland would get hotter than Las Vegas has ever been.

The system is chaotic and unknowable.

Hurricane and tornado formation occur on completely unrelated time and size scales along with the processes that go into them.

>Forgive me for seeming obtuse, but I was under the impression that weather extremes would increase due to climate change.

The myth that temperatures swings are more extreme on both sides only serves a very specific fallacy. Most of the world is getting warmer most of the year.

I forgive you

Not all storms are built the same. Tornadoes need warm air and wind shear. The latter is expected to decrease with climate change resulting in weaker tornadoes. Tornado season will get longer but there’ll be fewer strong ones.

We will all die due to habitat destruction long before climate issues.

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Nobody is saying the planet will die. The planet will do just fine; our coastal cities might be underwater, but the planet won't care about that.

The IPCC says the only weather extremes linked to climate change are increased high temperature records outside the tropics and subtropics, and more heat waves.

The IPCC specifically excludes things like increased rain, increased drought, stronger winter storms, stronger summer storms, etc. So any time you hear some activist claiming weather is caused by climate change, know that the mainstream scientists have said it's not true.

The oddest prediction was decreased land-falling hurricanes in the US, but right after that prediction was published we had the longest period in history of no major hurricanes hitting the US.

Tornadoes arent the most dangerous thing

Honestly feels like bait. Anyways simple terms tornadoes are caused by the differences in air temps, if All the air is hot (it’s all hot because the ozone layer has been destroyed(this is where the climate change part comes in for your obtuseness.))there is no difference to cause the disruption that is the tornado 🌪

caught me a bit drunk. we talking tornadoes or hurricanes?

It's like we live on different planets. The truth I know is the opposite of what you wrote.

Fewer and weaker tornadoes have definitely been linked to climate change.

The IPCC says there are no linakges to hurricanes. Aw hell, let me go look up specifics

Here is what the IPCC says exactly:

> “[T]here is still no consensus on the relative magnitude of human and natural influences on past changes in Atlantic hurricane activity, and particularly on which factor has dominated the observed increase (Ting et al., 2015) and it remains uncertain whether past changes in Atlantic TC activity are outside the range of natural variability.”

The IPCC has concluded that since 1900 there is > “no trend in the frequency of USA landfall events.” This goes for all hurricanes and also for the strongest hurricanes, called major hurricanes.

More broadly, > Continental U.S. landfalls are just a small proportion of all North Atlantic hurricanes, which in turn are just a small proportion of all global tropical cyclone activity. Since at least 1980, there are no clear trends in overall global hurricane and major hurricane activity.

And then there's this (emphasis mine): > here are many characteristics of tropical cyclones that are under study and hypothesized to be potentially affected by human influences (including but not limited to greenhouse gas forcings). These include tropical cyclone rainfall intensity, speed of storm movement, latitude of storm formation, pace of intensification, length of seasonality and many more. You can easily find different studies and different scientists with contrasting views on the role of human influence on tropical cyclones, but at present, there is not a unified community consensus on these hypotheses, as summarized by the World Meteorological Organization in several recent expert assessments.

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I mean predictions may be becoming less, well, predictable, but that is a consequence of the climate being less predictable because it's changing. Hence the "change" in "climate change".

That's as far as I know anyways, I won't pretend to know anything about any of this. It's all for scientists to figure out, and most scientists have said the climate change is happening and we can stop it by buying the Elon Musk cars and the Green New Deal. So I guess I'll be buying the Elon Musk cars and voting for the Green New Deal.

There IS more wind and less wind, there IS more rain and less rain, there ARE more fires and less fires, there ARE more hurricanes and less hurricanes, there ARE more tornadoes and less tornadoes, you're just too fucking myopic to consider anything outside the specific microcosm in which you live as valid evidence.

You might as well have said "Dur hur it snowed this year, where's the global warming??" instead of risking a potential migraine from "over" "thinking" it like you did. You don't actually get to beg to differ, because you don't know what you're talking about.

How is it so difficult to understand that climate and weather will simply change and is already doing so? You can have less rain and then one rain that is pouring down so much that it counts as more rain...like we had over here this year. This rain is totally useless for the soil. You can have less wind overall but then severe storms more frequent. The weather is going to be more volatile and different to the eco system than its used to, even though your personal momentarily feeling might be different.