Green Daily

Here's a tidbit you can use on people who say things like "It's been so cold this winter! How could there be such a thing as global warming?" (Northeasterners may be particularly prone to this mode of thinking this year, since they got snowed under umpteen times.)

After you remind these denial-bound folk that climate change is more about weather disruptions and less about overall warming, tell them that so far in 2008, the number of tornadoes has been 153% above average numbers from the past three years. 473 have been reported so far this year, while the average from 2005 to 2007's January-March period was 187.

Meanwhile, more people have died because of tornadoes this year so far than any other January-March period besides 1971. (Sixty-nine people have lost their lives so far in 2008.)

Check out a past post on people who follow tornadoes for fun (and are probably really psyched about this year's crop), here.