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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Ric Werme says:
January 8, 2014 at 5:33 pm
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I know you know, but as regards the size of Russia. Per:
http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/europe/03/26/russia.time.zones/
“Moscow (CNN) — The world’s largest country by land mass is challenging time: This weekend, Russia is cutting the number of its time zones from 11 to 9.”……
@Gail Combs – yes, that resume. But even at that, his resume still outshines his boss’.
Is there any correlation between the 30% growth in Arctic Sea Ice Extent on 2012, and the “Extreme warm in the far North”?
Extremist Holdren coming to the defence of the 17 year non-global warming farce. And once again the man-made “Climate Change” aka “Global Warming” theory remains non-falsifiable. Hot=Cold=Mild=Dry=Wet=Rain=Drought.
Pretty sure that if you don’t believe in anthrogenic global warming it means you are a racist. …..
Kyle M says:
at 2:46 pm
“There is a flip side to the cold wave. Serbia is hot. ”
Kyle, please… Serbia and Siberia are two different things. Believe me.
They should hire Bill Nye to help explain this vortex. I am sure he will have learned by now that the trade winds blow from East to West…or has he????? Enquiring minds want to know if he would now place the fan on the EASTERN seaboard so that it blows the trade winds THE OTHER WAY than in this precious video:
Was Baghdad Bob unavailable?
Caleb, I think that if the “Siberian Express” gets established in 10 days or so, the cold wave we just had will seem like “the good old days” especially in the northeast which escaped the worst of the cold temperatures, as cold as it was.
The fan is at 7:44 into the precious Bill Nye video.
Wait a minute, did he say as the temperature difference gets greater as the arctic region heats? Assuming the ‘whole’ is world warming at positive rate, the temperature difference would be smaller not larger.
Okay. I just watched the post linked video. Record snow falls came with this blast of cold air. So my BS meter went through the roof. I thought children were not supposed to be able to know what snow is??? According to this nimrod, children will be buried in it because of global warming!!!!
Sorry , duh, re-watched. Threw-up, but he did say smaller.
So what we have is a man explaining that global warming is the cause of the cold in winter and trying to justify it based upon models that can’t even model today’s climate?
Air sick bag is the correct term for certain.
The sad thing is he is an official in power and probably believes his own words, as provided him, without question.
Oh the Pain//////////////////////////////////
How many unelected appointees make policy that directly impacts you everyday?
Think about it….
President John F. Kennedy issued several memorable statements, a few of which seemed to acquire the qualities of a legend, and as such, the details behind them can become obscure. Such was the case at a luncheon in the White House. Depending upon who tells the story there was a collection of Nobel Laureates, or university professors there. Whatever the exact details are it’s clear that learned people had been invited there for a dinner. John F. Kennedy addressed them and told them something to the extent that never before in the history of the White House had such an assemblage of intellect gathered there for a meal – except when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.
Well, let us all consider now what address a future President (assuming that is still the title to be used) may present to an assemblage of comedians, comedy writers, joke tellers, late night TV hosts, humorists, laughalologists, ticklers, comedy acts, and proctologists.
Now, I think you know where I’m going with this but I still can’t resist going there. So here goes with a likely address: Never before in the history of the White House has such an assemblage of members of the theatre of the absurd gathered for a dinner except when President Obama’s science adviser, John Holdren, dined alone.
Or, perhaps when the two of them dined together.
You guys have John Holdren as the principal science and technology adviser to your president? Has the USA gone completely insane? Is this Obama’s way of saying the USA will definitely become a third rate power? Unbelievable.
Just to re-iterate a point made often before: AGW does not yet qualify as a theory. A theory must have successfully made predictions, including unique and novel ones, which are validated by publicly available data. It welcomes and takes on new tests from other theories. It hasn’t yet passed all possible known tests to become a natural law.
A hypothesis must have proposed numerous pass-fail tests, and passed all that have been performed so far, and be eligible for more. It doesn’t offer full explanations for all known relevant phenomena, yet.
A speculation offers an explanation for some phenomena, not yet tested or validated.
AGW is still a speculation. The best-funded speculation in the history of man.
What I found striking was that John (climate disruption) Holdren used the term ‘global warming’ in an argument to claim that AGW causes cooling. Why would he do that???
It seems global warming is actually here in Germany: Outside warmer than in the house and the nut trees started to blossom…. Spring weather…
Last year we had a very heavy winter and the scientists said that a row of cold winters may be due to some disturbance in the Arcitc. But this winter I heard nothing in Germany about global warming is causing that spring weather. But of course the Storm in Northern Germany was caused by Global warming, and the hurricane in the Philipines, of course.
BTW, the polar vortex is dangerous to human health:
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/borowitzreport/2014/01/polar-vortex-causes-hundreds-of-injuries-as-people-making-snide-remarks-about-climate-change-are-pun.html?utm_source=tny&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=borowitz&mbid=nl_Borowitz%20(15)
OssQss says:
January 8, 2014 at 6:42 pm
“The sad thing is he is an official in power “…….
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The sad part is that he is NOT an official in power.
They are just using him.
Maybe not even once. Between extensive funding from Mickey Mouse and friends, and vote counters that, e.g., report more O-votes in some precincts than there are adult residents, etc., etc., another hypothesis could be entertained.
The warmists attribute any change to the increase in atmospheric CO2 and ignore observations such as the lack of warming for the last 17 years which disprove CAGW. The change in the North Atlantic jet stream speed is not unusual. Did the warmists note the sudden increase in sea ice in the Arctic and the record sea ice in the Antarctic correlates with the sudden appearance of the polar vortex (aka Blizzards) in the US? Could there be anything else that has changed? (Hint the sun.)
http://www.met.reading.ac.uk/~swr01tjw/pubs/20Cjet.final.pdf
Twentieth century North Atlantic jet variability
In general, the features exhibited in shorter records are shown to be robust, for example the strong skewness of the NAO distribution. Related to this is a clear multimodality of the jet latitude distribution which suggests the existence of preferred positions of the jet. Decadal variations in jet latitude are shown to correspond to changes in the occurrence of these preferred positions. However, it is the speed rather than the latitude of the jet which exhibits the strongest decadal variability, and in most seasons this is clearly distinct from a white noise representation of the seasonal means. When viewed in this longer term context the variations of recent decades do not appear unusual, and recent values of jet latitude and speed are not unprecedented in the historical record.
Curious the same pattern of extreme cold and blizzards have occurred before. The warmists may not have noticed the sun was in deep solar magnetic cycle minimum during the blizzards of 1977 and 1978.
US Blizzard of 1977
Coldest winter in memory. Federal disaster declared. 11 states in crisis. Fuel shortages due to cold. White house warns against panic buying of food. Record snowfall. Hurricane force winds.
https://www.google.ca/search?q=blizzard+of+1977+buffalo+ny&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=jQXOUvvwBYG9qQGTloGgCw&sqi=2&ved=0CCkQsAQ&biw=1920&bih=908
US Blizzard of 1978
https://www.google.ca/search?q=blizzard+of+1978&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=-AXOUpBLioyoAdmYgPAK&sqi=2&ved=0CDoQsAQ&biw=1920&bih=908
OssQss says:
January 8, 2014 at 6:42 pm
“How many unelected appointees make policy that directly impacts you everyday?
Think about it….”
The whole damn EPA for starters!
Seriously.
Ickk.
The only coherent response I would consider, is playing Tiny Tim; The ice caps are melting, as the rebuttal.
At least Tim was funny in a creepy kind of was.
Holdren certainly belongs in the Obama Whitehouse.
1. You say that extreme cold spells don’t disproves global warming, yet you have no problem at all saying that extreme hot spells do prove global warming which is both hypocritical and intellectually dishonest.
2. While you say that no single weather event can prove or disprove “climate change” that is not the question. Skeptics do not dispute that climate changes, in fact it is the skeptics that argue that climate changes is normal, that it has always changed, and that it always will change, regardless of human activity. To the contrary, it is the believers of global warming that argue that climate should not change and that if it does change; it must be caused by human activity. Thus it is the believers that accuse the skeptics of believing what they themselves believe.
3. Polar vortexes are not proof of human caused CO2 driven climate change as winter polar vortex storms existed before the United States was even a country. During the Battle of Princeton in the winter of 1777 a similar polar vortex storm helped General Washington to surprise the forces at Trenton New Jersey giving the United States a much needed victory. This battle happened nearly 100 years before humans started using coal, oil, and natural gas as a major fuel source.
4. Globally there has been no measurable warming for over 17 years and if this “extreme weather” is caused by warming or climate change, why did the extreme weather event even happen now when there has been no warming or climate change for the last 17 years even though atmospheric CO2 has continued to climb?
CO2 is a compound, not an element.
Carbon, the compound, because of its balanced 4 valence, able to act as either oxydizing or reducing agent, and form large stable compounds, may well be the most powerful element. You’re mostly structured from it, for example.