Video: What the Link Between Climate Change and Joplin Tornadoes Doesn't Look Like

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Ben Jervey
Contributing Editor, Environment

June 10, 2011 • 6:00 am PDT
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A couple weeks ago, we chuckled and cringed and pointed you to 350.org founder Bill McKibben's tongue-in-cheek Op-ed in the Washington Post, "A link between climate change and the Joplin tornadoes? Never!"

Yesterday, Steven Thomson of Plomomedia.com released a video version of the piece that's pretty darn powerful.

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While Thomson, as narrator, may not be the next Morgan Freeman, his edits and video work are awesome and the piece as a whole serves as a scary catalog of all the recent "record-breaking" weather events. Draw your own conclusions.

Posted in: Environment,; News

Tags: environment,; climate change,; weather,; tornado,; climate,; bill mckibben,; extreme weather,; tornadoes,; joplin,; tornado fatigue

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