Professor Jeffrey Sachs, the Director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University, agrees with Al Gore the the planet has a “fever.” Sachs believes that Sunday’s tornadoes in the Midwest were results of that fever:
Weather tragedy in Illinois. Research shows human-induced warming is likely to lead to more severe thunderstorms. http://t.co/aHLJZqi8ji
— Jeffrey D. Sachs (@JeffDSachs) November 18, 2013
There were a number of more technical disagreements with Sachs, but here’s a fairly simple one:
https://twitter.com/MendyWax/status/402293712711352320
Sachs agreed that Sunday’s weather event was not unprecedented:
Today's tornadoes in Illinois were very uncommon in number and severity for the month of November. Not unprecedented, but very uncommon.
— Jeffrey D. Sachs (@JeffDSachs) November 18, 2013
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