<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/afcdcb8f-9045-48a4-a39e-9091cbdf8c3e/5C055F42-A9FF-469C-8518-F8862519E9C0/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/09/22/global-warming-more-tornadoes-not-happening-this-year/" href="http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/09/22/global-warming-more-tornadoes-not-happening-this-year/" style="font-size: 11px;">wattsupwiththat.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/09/22/global-warming-more-tornadoes-not-happening-this-year/">we’ve reached a <A target="_blank" href="http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/09/22/global-warming-more-hurricanes-still-not-happening/" tooltip="linkalert-tip">30 year low in Accumulated Cyclone Energy</A> (ACE) which is a measure of global hurricane activity.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/09/22/global-warming-more-tornadoes-not-happening-this-year/">The actual number of tornadoes so far this year is only 850 compared to the previous three years, all above 1000.  2008 saw 1691 tornadoes in the USA, almost double. The three year average is 1297 tornadoes. Tornado related deaths are also way down with only 21 so far this year compared to 126 last year and a 3 year average of 91.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/09/22/global-warming-more-tornadoes-not-happening-this-year/">La Niña and a weak/fading  El Niño had more of an impact on this than any measure of global warming</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/09/22/global-warming-more-tornadoes-not-happening-this-year/">Plus we had a <A target="_blank" href="http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/09/11/noaa-summer-temperature-below-average-for-u-s/" tooltip="linkalert-tip">cool summer</A> despite <A target="_blank" href="http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/09/17/noaas-august-global-record-is-the-result-of-one-data-set/">supposedly record sea surface temperatures</A>. Our quiet sun may also be a factor.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/09/22/global-warming-more-tornadoes-not-happening-this-year/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/wattsupwiththat.com/img/3B9C4F08-F85C-4CA9-A095-882209FD2F40" alt="click for larger image" /></div></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/5C055F42-A9FF-469C-8518-F8862519E9C0/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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