NewsRack: 'Tornados' news in 'Extreme Weather' topic for user irge304

Photos of the Day: May 23	24.5.2013	Wall St. Journal: World
In today's pictures, a woman walks in the rain in Nepal, lighting strikes a tornado-ravaged Oklahoma city, disabled women compete in a Moscow beauty pageant, and more.
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Will New Yorkers want a Mayor Weiner?	24.5.2013	CNN: Top Stories
Errol Louis says even with ideas, the shamed congressman--and Park Ave. denizen--may have a tough time selling himself anew as a middle class champion to a city and its media
'Extremely Active' Atlantic Hurricane Season Predicted	24.5.2013	NPR Health Science
Officials are forecasting that hurricane activity will be "above normal" this season, with 13 to 20 named storms. As many as six of those could be major hurricanes. Warm ocean waters and the lack of El Nino conditions are partly to blame.
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NOAA Predicts Above-Average Hurricane Season	24.5.2013	NPR Health Science
Forecasters predict as many as six major hurricanes in the Atlantic this year due in part to warmer-than-average ocean temperatures.
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Coburn: No, I don't oppose tornado aid	24.5.2013	CNN: Top Stories
Sen. Tom Coburn says, despite what some reports say, he agrees with FEMA funding for tornado relief, but if it runs out, he will stick to his policy.
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Hundreds mourn tornado victim, schoolgirl who liked to sing	23.5.2013	Chicago Tribune: Nation
Hundreds mourn tornado victim, schoolgirl who liked to sing
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Unsettled weather continues today; chances for storms increase as day goes on	23.5.2013	Boston Globe: Massachusetts
Unsettled weather continues today; chances for storms increase as day goes on
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Dot Earth Blog: Science Group Criticizes Politicians for Global Warming Distortions	23.5.2013	NY Times: Science
Dot Earth Blog: Science Group Criticizes Politicians for Global Warming Distortions
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Storms slam tornado-ravaged town	23.5.2013	CNN: Top Stories
Pounding rain soaked tornado-ravaged Moore, Oklahoma, on Thursday morning, hindering recovery efforts. And heavy winds were expected, bringing a slight possibility of an isolated twister.
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Ghitis: The real enemy in London	23.5.2013	CNN: Top Stories
Frida Ghitis explains that radical Islamist ideology that justifies any atrocity is the real enemy we must overcome.
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Don't blame Apple, blame the tax code	23.5.2013	CNN: Top Stories
Will Marshall says Tim Cook was grilled about Apple's tax practices but the real culprit is a dysfunctional tax system.
Oklahoma needs help, not ideology, after tornado	23.5.2013	Washington Post: Op-Eds
While listening to an NPR report out of Moore, Okla. , this week, I was genuinely shocked. Not by the scale of the devastation or the tenacity of people who have grown stoically accustomed to the damage tornadoes can do but by a political sentiment that, in almost any other era, would not have been surprising at all. ...
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Scattered mementos find way home	23.5.2013	CNN: Top Stories
On Sunday, a mystery photograph fluttered from the sky and landed near Leslie Hagelberg's mailbox in West Tulsa, Oklahoma.
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Immigration agent unions go 'rogue'	23.5.2013	CNN: Top Stories
Welcome to the chaotic Department of Homeland Security.
No evidence global warming caused it	23.5.2013	CNN: Top Stories
Yes, climate change is happening. But it's hard to say that the tornado that ripped through Moore, Oklahoma -- or any given tornado, for that matter -- was influenced by climate change.
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Teacher Led Students Through Storm Despite Peril To Daughter	22.5.2013	NPR: All Things Considered
The high school in Moore, Okla., wasn't badly damaged by Monday's tornado. But a special ed teacher stayed with her own students there rather than hunting for her own daughter at a wrecked elementary school.
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Oklahoma tornado: the end of a world is in Ledonna Cobb's eyes \| Jonathan Jones	22.5.2013	The Guardian -- World Latest
This picture of ordinary people surviving catastrophe calls out as a warning of strange, terrible things happening to planet Earth What makes a particular photograph "iconic"? That word is already being used of this picture of a family group stumbling away from the wreckage of Briarwood elementary school after the Oklahoma tornado struck it. The Greek word ikon means in the first instance any picture; but it also means the religious images venerated by Orthodox Christianity. So an iconic photograph is presumably one that inspires awe and carries a quasi-religious quality of importance, beauty, emotion, history. The Marxist thinker Walter Benjamin said that in the photographic age, works of art lose their "aura" or magic. But the prevalent use of the word "iconic" recognises that some photographs are after all magical. Since this photograph hit the world press on Tuesday, reporters have traced the people in it. They have appeared on television and told their story. Ledonna Cobb is a ...
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Dot Earth Blog: Terrible Tornadoes in a Changing Climate	22.5.2013	NYT > Environment
Dot Earth Blog: Terrible Tornadoes in a Changing Climate
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Focus in Oklahoma Moves From Rescue to Recovery	22.5.2013	International Herald Tribune: Front Page
Focus in Oklahoma Moves From Rescue to Recovery
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Opinion: How to be safe	22.5.2013	CNN: Top Stories
A junior professor drives his Doppler On Wheels mobile radar trucks through Moore, Oklahoma, less than 90 seconds after a tornado has torn a path of destruction through the city. Debris -- pieces of homes -- falls from the sky onto his truck. The scene is shocking; wrecks of houses covered with dirt are all that is left in the twister's path, and people are still huddled underground in shelters.
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