Scripps on tornadoes: 'Welcome to your future'
Originally published May 23, 2011 at 11:05 a.m., updated May 23, 2011 at 3:18 p.m.
Tim Barnett, a renowned climate expert at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, says the deadly tornado that hit Joplin, Missouri and other recent twisters in the Midwest "were probably not due to climate change. Everyone wants to pin it on an events like this. But it is very difficult to do that scientifically for any one event."But Barnett also said, "Welcome to our future" when asked about the severity of the tornadoes that have been hitting the country this spring.
"The kind of more extreme events we're seeing now will occur more frequently in the future; our kids will have to deal with them in around 20-30 years" (because the atmosphere is getting warmer.)
The impact, he said, will vary. The Midwest will experience more heat waves and more severe tornadoes. And California will have to cope with a longer-term rise in sea level that Barnett says "will cause tremendous problems to the Bay-Delta fresh water supply that comes to Los Angeles. The rainfall belts will move farther north, so San Diego County is likely to get less rain, which could mean more (wild) fires.)
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