Watch John Holdren struggle to explain the “waviness” of the circumpolar vortex aka the ‘polar vortex’ in today’s news cycle. Also, he says:
“If you’ve been hearing that extreme cold spells like the one we’re having in the United States now disprove global warming, don’t believe it,”
“The fact is that no single weather episode can either prove or disprove global climate change.”
From the video description:
President Obama’s Science and Technology Advisor, Dr. John Holdren, explains the polar vortex in 2 minutes—and why climate change makes extreme weather more likely going forward. Learn more at http://wh.gov/climate-change.
Seems they had to rush this to press so as to not to miss the news cycle before the cold air went away. Watch, and be sure to have your air sickness bag handy.
I’m too busy at work right now, so I’ll leave readers to point out the weaknesses.
h/t to Steve Milloy
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James Delingpole has a delightful rebuttal to the White House’s “claims” regarding the Polar Vortex here:
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jamesdelingpole/100253377/global-warming-devastates-america/
These people are idiots. I’ve had THREE people who use to believe in global warming tell me they can’t believe people are trying to convince everyone that global warming causes cooling. No one but the true believer is buying this at all. Most supporters don’t even seem to be buying this.
Senator Tim Wirth please call your office
Fire the bums. In my view, this is all about control of the populous.
There is a flip side to the cold wave. Serbia is hot.
http://www.aljazeera.com/weather/2013/12/where-siberia-winter-gone-2013121992332312557.html
It seems that the home of global warming just became an igloo!
what a load of BS how dose he sleep at night
Talk about the stupidity of this white house and since we can keep our coverage then let us keep our sanity too! In alcoholics anonymous in step 2 says, “the difinition of insanity is doing the same things over and over expecting DIFFERENT results” and that my friend is what global warmist continue to do. Don’t worry Washington, the Wave is coming!
Now we know it: Global warming means more freezing.
Shouldn’t we wish for Global cooling then?
RockyRoad:
Excellent post. Maybe we should ask – does the global warming theory predict the brutal cold? H-h-m-m let me guess – no? But its warming? Oh? U-u-m-m is anyone down there hanging on to Obama’s global warming message for liberals?
Look at the good Doctors resume – and this guy is Obumbles ‘Science & Technology’ adviser? No wonder this country is so screwed up.
“The fact is that no single weather episode can either prove or disprove global climate change.”
At least he has that part right; perhaps he’d like to drill that into all alarmists?
These guys are something else. No matter what happens with the sea, the ice, the rain, the sun, the snow, the heat, the cold it’s always due to global warming.
Note how Holdren says there is “debate” in the climate community? I thought these clowns told us the debate was over! My god, get it together progressives. get your story straight and get back to us with your latest coordinated propaganda line.
The Polar vortex is something completely new to us and will be made much, much worse by man’s co2. It really is as bad as that and much worse than we thought! We must act now! We must act then! We must act now and then!!!
Thanks A, but I cannot do this to myself. Watching this video would let my insurance company claim it was suicide!
Also, consuming or even touching anthropogenic excrement is in bad taste.
All this cold in north America was compensated by a killer heat wave in Serbia? Which towns? The whole country? Wow! Really?
Watch the northern polar vortex at http://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/isobaric/10hPa/orthographic=-80,80 (earth wind map, Cameron Beccario).
Its a theory still and the problem is the observable climate has not matched their dire predictions. Scientifically, that means we need a new theory. I vote for its normal…not man made!
it is, at best, a hypothesis; theories are supported by evidence, reproducible, and predictive.
Now we know: “Decreased temperature difference between the tropics and the poles results in stronger storms” Where did he learn this stuff, a ceral box!!!!!
This defines the Obama folks, a general insult to a box of rocks!!
It’s an election year, remember this.
President Obama and his disciples aren’t stupid. They don’t believe a word they are saying. Instead, they believe WE are stupid, and they have some evidence to back up their belief. After all, we did elect him….twice.
-50’s to -60’sF in Siberia. Return engagement of “polar vortex” in 10 days.
Frigid temperatures no doubt the result of global warming which melted the Arctic, kinked the jet stream and pushed the cold air south or maybe the result of excessive hot air emanating from Washington DC and certain “reknowned” climate scientists.
So, he means weather events such as SUPER storm sandy, or other events except events he wants to use to blame global climate warming/cooling CO2 is bad, coal bad, etc?
Or maybe they can explain why the “warming November since records began” is relevant, but the coldest December will not be? I get it, everything is to blame, provided you live in a rich Western economy…..
What I do believe is current grand solar minimum effects disproves man-made global warming.
frozenohio says: @ur momisugly January 8, 2014 at 3:00 pm
Look at the good Doctors resume…
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OH, do you mean like his recommendations for:
And
And
More at:
http://zombietime.com/john_holdren/
and
http://www.masterresource.org/2009/01/john-holdren-and-anti-growth-malthusianism-part-iv-in-a-series-on-obamas-new-science-advisor/
But at its root, the first cause is CO₂ (carbon dioxide) … the most powerful element in the known universe, it causes everything.
From the same douchebags that keep alluding to some type of relationship between Tropical “Super” Storm Sandy and global warming.
The man is correct – it doesn’t prove or disprove “global climate change”. Of course what he really means is ‘human caused global warming’. But what it does prove is that weather events and the temperature ranges that can occur (-50 deg C and +50 deg C, i.e. a temperature difference of 100 deg C) swamps the 1 deg C (to be generous) of “global warming” over the next 100 years that is in all probability not likely to be due to CO2 emissions. And proves the utter stupidity of attempting to “tackle” such a rise.