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04 April 2012
Are the Dallas Area Bunnies Okay? - I'm not sure who all is in the Dallas are except for Doohickie. Y'all need to chime in with status updates, please!→[More:]I meant to ask this earlier, but forgot.
I was catching up on some of the tornado news and there are some injuries reported and lots of property damage, but amazingly it appears there haven't been any fatalities.
"Tornadoes and hurricanes seem to be getting worse and worse."
Possibly, but don't rule out the illusion caused by information proliferation. Even without accounting for climate change, we have not likely documented first-hand the worst possible weather situations over the short period of modern data collection.
Ardiril is correct; a wild season or 2 is not proof, though there are lots of other indicators of climate change. For me, it's the combination of severe droughts, forest fires, lots of severe weather, etc. I have a friend in the insurance industry, and he said the big insurers are starting to work on how to write policies to deal with it. You'd think they'd want to stop global climate change-induces weather disaster claims, but, basically, they're statisticians, so they just want to write accurate actuarial tables, and smart policies.
Sorry, should have checked in sooner. Honestly, where I was it was nothing more than a bit of rain and thunder. I work on the west side of Fort Worth, and only the southeast corner of the city got anything too bad (near Kennedale and Arlington). The closest the tornado track got to my home was maybe 5 miles.
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