NOAA,the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, is an agency of the executive branch, has sounded the alarm bells even after the Bush administration admitted to censoring a report on Global Warming and delaying by 4 years the release of an embarrassing report showing that President Alfred E. Newman
This year may set records for tornadoes and tornado-related deaths. “We have already seen more than 115 tornado-related deaths, making this the deadliest tornado season since 1998,” said Greg Carbin, a meteorologist at NOAA’s Storm Prediction Center in Norman, Okla.
“It is only the third time since the 1974 super tornado outbreak that there have been more than 100 tornado-related deaths during a single tornado season in the U.S.,” added Harold Brooks, a research meteorologist at NOAA’s National Severe Storms Laboratory also in Norman. “In 1998 and 1984 there were 132 and 122 tornado-related deaths, respectively — 2008 will likely equal or exceed that record.”
See tornadoproject.com
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