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Do Emissions Cause Tornadoes? Climate Service Would Know
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Last weekend, more than 100 tornadoes tore across the Plains states, smashing homes, tossing cars and killing six people.
This might have counted as a rousing start to the spring tornado season, except for the dozen or more twisters that struck Dallas and Fort Worth earlier this month and the 223 that hit the U.S. in March -- almost three times the average for that month since 1990. Tornadoes have been blamed for 63 deaths this year in the Midwest and South.