A meteorologist has called the AOC after establishing a link between DC's tornado alert and climate change

Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, DN.Y., spoke to social media on Thursday during a tornado alert in Washington, DC, and quickly attempted to connect her to climate change, which has prompted a meteorologist to question it so as not to know the difference between weather and climate. "

The new congressman began by sharing a video on Instagram briefly illustrating the external conditions, while heavy rains flooded the area and caused a brief and rare tornado warning inside the Beltway.

"There are people stuck outside. We have to get them out, "said Ocasio-Cortez. "It's crazy."

The Green New Deal lawyer then told a story published by PBS in March, asking if climate change would make tornadoes worse and insist on a quote from the article: "Rather than lying in the Great Plains, American tornadoes seem slide the Midwest and the Southeast ".

The tornado warning followed a devastating tornado in the Missouri capital, Jefferson City, the night before.

"Tornadoes are hard to associate with climate change-related links because of their nature (geographically, acute patterns, their structure, etc.)," ​​Ocasio-Cortez told his followers when replaying the article. . "But we know that tornadoes have changed, they are no longer confined to the Great Plains and are moving to other parts of the country."

"The climate crisis is real, suppose we are witnessing occasional tornadoes in the country's growing regions," she later wrote on Instagram.

But meteorologist Ryan Maue said she confused climate change with the "climate" in the capital region.

"The @AOC Congressman does not know the difference between weather and climate," wrote Maue, who also works with the libertarian-oriented Cato Institute. "Let's try an easy analogy: the weather is what you wear before going out.The climate is your closet wardrobe."