answersLogoWhite

0

Global warming does not cause tornadoes. Tornadoes will happen with or without it.

The argument that some use is that a warmer climate means that more energy is available for storms and thus more tornadoes. This is grossly oversimplified. A complex set of conditions are needed for tornado activity, especially significant activity. There are many variables.

Raising average global temperatures will affect all of these variable in some way or another and will affect them differently in different regions in ways that are hard to predict. In all likelihood, global warming would result in an increase in tornado activity in some regions and a decrease in others.

User Avatar

Wiki User

11y ago

What else can I help you with?

Related Questions

Could tornadoes cause global warming?

No. While global warming might affect tornado activity, tornadoes themselves are an end product of weather and climatic activity, not a cause.


Is there a link between tornadoes and global warming?

So far no conclusive link has been found between tornadoes and global warming. Extra heat in the atmosphere is a form of energy, and energy drives tornadoes. Scientists predict that global warming will cause more frequent and more severe "weather events". Climate, however, takes time to change so it is unclear yet what is happening.


Do tornadoes affect global warming?

Scientists don't think tornadoes affect global warming. There are some studies to suggest the other way round, that global warming and climate change may lead to weather events like tornadoes, more often and more violent.


Are tornadoes linked to global warming?

Tornadoes will always occur, with or without global warming. So far the only known trend in tornado activity that may be linked to global warming is a northward shift of the areas of highest tornado activity in Tornado Alley.


What does a tornado do to contribute to global warming?

Tornadoes do not directly contribute to global warming. However, the severe weather patterns that can result from climate change, which is linked to global warming, may increase the frequency and intensity of tornadoes.


Is ozone depletion the cause why there is global warming?

Yes, it is. It is responsible for global warming.


Is global warming the main cause of the thinning of the ozone layer?

Global warming is a cause of the ozone depletion. However it is not the main cause of it.


Why earth have a global warming?

There is no such thing as "a global warming" global warming only happens to earth because human and our unruly decrease in the earths resources. HUMANS cause global warming.


Does the earth's crust cause global warming?

No. While events on the earths crust can cause global warming, the crust itself does not.


Is global warming caused by tornadoes?

Global warming is not caused by tornadoes, but rather by human burning of fossil fuels (coal, oil and natural gas) in industry, transport and the generation of electricity, which releases carbon dioxide (CO2). Because global warming is causing climate change, there is some evidence that more heat (energy) in the atmosphere is giving extra strength to storms and tornadoes.


Does fishing cause global warming?

No.


What is the name that gives gases that trap heat and cause global warming?

Greenhouse gasses are the cause of Global Warming.