How Will Climate Alarmists Explain US Having Fewest ‘Violent’ Tornadoes Ever in 2018?

In August, The New York Times — “All the News That’s Fit to Print” — reported that “Tornadoes on the East Coast May Be a Sign of Things to Come.” And why, you may ask? Well, you probably needn’t have asked.

“A tornado, albeit a weak one, touched down in New York City last Thursday, in the College Point neighborhood of Queens,” the story read. “A few days earlier, a stronger tornado was spotted near the town of Douglas, in central Massachusetts. And a few days later a whirlwind ripped through nearby Webster, displacing dozens of people from their damaged homes.

“The storms were far from the region in the middle of the country known as Tornado Alley, where the bulk of the nation’s tornadoes occur. In a summer already marked by simmering heat that researchers have linked to global warming, is climate change also making tornadoes more common in places where they once were infrequent?”

It wasn’t until four paragraphs down that a professor of earth system science at Stanford University was quoted as saying that twisters “are the kind of extreme event where we have the least confidence in our ability to attribute the odds or characteristics of individual events to an influence of global warming.”

That didn’t stop The Times’ Kendra Pierre-Lewis from saying scientists “can simulate the broader, changing climate to see how it will affect the underlying conditions that create thunderstorms, which set the stage for tornadoes.”

“We do have strong evidence that at the large scale that global warming is likely to increase the atmospheric environments that create the kind of severe thunderstorm that produces tornadoes,” the Stanford scientist, Noah Diffenbaugh, said.

So, how is that working out for us? Well, unless something happens in the three days left this calendar year, we’re set for a major record.

“We’re now days away from this becoming the first year in the modern record with no violent tornadoes touching down in the United States,” The Washington Post’s Ian Livingston reported. “Violent tornadoes are the strongest on a 0 to 5 scale, or those ranked EF4 or EF5.

“It was a quiet year for tornadoes overall, with below normal numbers most months. Unless you’re a storm chaser, this is not bad news. The low tornado count is undoubtedly a big part of...

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