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24 May 2011

Deadliest Tornado Season in 60 Years Continues As Oklahoma Prepares for Violent Tornado Outbreak

A rare HIGH RISK outlook was issued today by the Storm Prediction Center (NOAA) in Norman, OK. The last high risk was on 27 April when the tornado swarm hit Alabama and Mississippi. Without doubt, this will be the deadliest tornado season in at least 60 years and it is frankly amazing in the modern warning era. The death toll in April was over 350 and this week in Joplin …

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OZ Climate Study Pulls No Punches

Yet another peer reviewed study of climate science has used unusually urgent language, to define the growing threat from doing nothing about rising greenhouse gases. Australia ranks second only to the USA in the number of politically inspired attacks on climate scientists, although their politicians seem to be a bit more scientifically literate than many of ours. What to do about climate change is a political question, but the threat …

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