{"id":4280,"date":"2011-05-24T23:15:26","date_gmt":"2011-05-24T23:15:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/divineearth.org\/main\/?p=4280"},"modified":"2011-05-27T02:39:58","modified_gmt":"2011-05-27T02:39:58","slug":"a-link-between-climate-change-and-joplin-tornadoes-never","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/divineearth.org\/main\/a-link-between-climate-change-and-joplin-tornadoes-never\/","title":{"rendered":"A link between climate change and Joplin tornadoes? Never!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Post \u00a0By Bill McKibben, Published: May 23<\/p>\n<p>Caution: It is vitally important not to make connections. When you see pictures of rubble like this week\u2019s shots from Joplin, Mo., you should not wonder: Is this somehow related to the tornado outbreak three weeks ago in Tuscaloosa, Ala., or the enormous outbreak a couple of weeks before that (which, together, comprised the most active April for tornadoes in U.S. history). No, that doesn\u2019t mean a thing.<\/p>\n<p>It is far better to think of these as isolated, unpredictable, discrete events. It is not advisable to try to connect them in your mind with, say, the fires burning across Texas \u2014 fires that have burned more of America at this point this year than any wildfires have in previous years. Texas, and adjoining parts of Oklahoma and New Mexico, are drier than they\u2019ve ever been \u2014 the drought is worse than that of the Dust Bowl. But do not wonder if they\u2019re somehow connected.<\/p>\n<p>Read the rest of this article here:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/a-link-between-climate-change-and-joplin-tornadoes-never\/2011\/05\/23\/AFrVC49G_story.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/a-link-between-climate-change-and-joplin-tornadoes-never\/2011\/05\/23\/AFrVC49G_story.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Post \u00a0By Bill McKibben, Published: May 23 Caution: It is vitally important not to make connections. When you see pictures of rubble like this week\u2019s shots from Joplin, Mo., you should not wonder: Is this somehow related to the tornado outbreak three weeks ago in Tuscaloosa, Ala., or \u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"continue-reading-button\"> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"http:\/\/divineearth.org\/main\/a-link-between-climate-change-and-joplin-tornadoes-never\/\">Continue reading<i class=\"crycon-right-dir\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":439,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,9],"tags":[4282],"class_list":["post-4280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-places","category-world-news","tag-climate-change"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/divineearth.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/divineearth.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/divineearth.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/divineearth.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/439"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/divineearth.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4280"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/divineearth.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4301,"href":"http:\/\/divineearth.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4280\/revisions\/4301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/divineearth.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/divineearth.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/divineearth.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}