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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The polar vortex (aka winter weather) is the latest victim of CO2 obsession.
So on the one hand, no weather event can prove or disprove AGW. Yet on the other hand, *this* weather event, renamed to sound scary, is going to be more frequent. So for the CO2 obsessed, the single weather event does prove up their belief. And since AGW is non-falsifiable, the believers cannot see the oxymoron that they find their belief underscored in every weather event.
The operative purpose of this video is to allow the White House and the mangy purveyors of global warming to rename the natural phenomina that they had previously commandeered to launch an attack on prosperity, the ozone hole.
Whenever you hear the phrase “polar vortex”, that’s politicians trying desperately to disassociate the ozone hole from a natural temperature dependant process operating on all planets, provided they possess an atmosphere.
They don’t want the public putting two and two together, that the terms are interchangable.
Yup. Doh.
I have a few questions for Holdren, but if anyone else can answer, please do.
1. If a warming Arctic causes the polar vortex to invade further south, can we expect these freezing temperatures to return this summer when the Arctic really warms up? Or can it tell the difference between warming caused by CO2 and warming caused by other means?
2. If the whole world is warming, and the Arctic is warming at twice the rate, where did all this record cold air come from? Was it hiding in the deep oceans?
3. If the polar vortex is sending this cold air mass south and replacing it with warmer air in the Arctic, why isn’t the polar ice melting? Why is the ice extent even greater this year than last?
see that down in Antarctica, both the Russian the Chinese boats are now in open water and the assistance of CG Poplar Star is no longer required.
http://kucb.org/news/article/coast-guard-icebreaker-polar-star-sent-to-free-ships-in-antarctica/
The icebreak up was of course forecast earlier for around this time by Anthony Watts on TV.
REPLY: yes, we covered the story yesterday http://wattsupwiththat.com/2014/01/07/russian-ship-in-stuck-in-antarctic-ice-starts-moving-again-per-my-forecast/ Thanks
Then why are they all so worried about it?
That’s the $64,000 question!
I know, I know–you don’t get much for $64,000 these days, especially from this administration! Why, at the recent Quantitative Easing rate of $85 Billion a month, $64,000 would get you about 1.95 seconds on the clock.
Not enough time to even ask the question, let alone get an answer!
It might help if someone were to point out in public that CAGW is a hypothesis and not a theory and as such is very risky to base a policy on.
I am looking forward to the paleo-climatology papers being updated to reflect that warmer weather meant cooling climate and cooler weather meant warming climate.
They should embrace the Medieval Warm Period as proof the climate was colder.
Would be just another CAGW preacher.
Unfortunately, his missioning is paid by White House and taxpayers.
f”rozenohio says:
January 8, 2014 at 3:00 pm
Look at the good Doctors resume – and this guy is Obumbles ‘Science & Technology’ adviser? No wonder this country is so screwed up”.
Unfortunately. It’s not only your country screwed up. It applies to other countries aswell believing in the same AGW/CC Meme.
Including NZ. Our Science advisor to the Govt Peter Gluckman quotes John Holdren as the be all and end all on Climate Chane Global Warming!!
http://www.pmcsa.org.nz/
“Without incurring significant cost to the Office, I have managed to meet with the UK Chief Scientist Sir John Beddington (twice), the Australian Chief Scientist Dr Penny Sackett (twice), senior officials in the USA including President Obama’s cabinetlevel advisor Dr John Holdren and the Chief Scientist of the US Department of Agriculture, Dr Richard Beachy, and with many of their associated officials and offices. I have also met with senior Chinese officials and viceministers, and with senior officials in Singapore. Each of these offer specific opportunities we can build upon. I have also attended the joint science commission meetings with the USA and the European Union. I have been heavily involved with the Global Research Alliance – cochairing the Wellington meeting and assisting the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry on scientific aspects. I have attending coordination meetings around the Square Kilometre Array proposal and made representations as appropriate internationally.’
If a Polar Vortex equals wind then Warmists will claim it’s Global Warming.
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Storms which battered Britain are linked to climate change
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2535915/Storms-battered-Britain-linked-climate-change-David-Cameron-claims.html
“johnspencer3333 says:
January 8, 2014 at 11:44 pm”
I am not one bit surprised Cameron has made this claim as his family (Father-in-law) is invested in wind energy.
I am not a scientist, but can computer modelling be called ‘science’? They’re covering their behinds for all the cold weather we have to look forward to as the planet cools.
One polar vortex and one extreme cold event doesn’t disprove or prove ‘global warming’.
That much is true.
Nor does an Australian summer of extreme heat for that matter.
What always happens with these lines is that they are distorted by one side of the argument.
Is there something intrinsically evil about the middle line on this one??
If not, why do the MSM treat it as being akin to admitting that you get your rocks off torturing hookers with burning cigarette ends??!!
Darn. Opened 43 bottles of lemonade last night and allowed the (entirely man-made) gaseous ‘fizz’ to escape into the kitchen’s atmosphere. Unfortunately, the unusually cold and draughty polar vortex that greeted me this morning in our adjacent kitchen conservatory must be conclusive proof of global warming – either that or I really do need to fix that dodgy leaking roof panel that keeps letting all that cold air in. Sod it, I’ll fix it later and accept that man-made climate change is to blame. Hey, I admit it’s all my fault for opening the lemonade in the first place. (Thank goodness I didn’t open the crate of beer too.)
“If a warming Arctic causes the polar vortex to invade further south, can we expect these freezing temperatures to return this summer when the Arctic really warms up? Or can it tell the difference between warming caused by CO2 and warming caused by other means?”
You can expect cooler temperatures, probably in the UK summertime, which tends to happen each time the Met office forecast a barbecue summer..
“If the whole world is warming, and the Arctic is warming at twice the rate, where did all this record cold air come from? Was it hiding in the deep oceans?”
The Arctic is still very cold in Winter even if min temps are somewhat higher.
“If the polar vortex is sending this cold air mass south and replacing it with warmer air in the Arctic, why isn’t the polar ice melting?”
It may well be that we will see Arctic max sea ice extent slightly lower by March this year.
The point though, is that there is zero evidence that polar vortexes are the result of the very small amount of global warming. Polar vortexes are nothing new.
Having said that, when polar vortexes do occur, and polar air masses spill south, that would likely result in warmer air coming up and impacting on sea ice. However, let’s be clear, this is weather not climate change, and it is nothing new.
So more or less the Dr. Jennifer Francis story.
http://youtu.be/xugAC7XGosM
Why do all government scientists make themselves look so stupid with their outrageous statements. We suffer from them just the same here in the UK. Where was Holdren’s explanation for the past 17 years of no warming or the increase in sea levels that his cohorts were forecasting?
Empirical evidence seems to have no meaning whatsoever for these so called academics who too frequently try to defy all logic.
The reason why the activists are pushing the ‘Polar Vortex’ meme is so that people can relate to the movie, ‘The Day After Tomorrow’ where the graphics used to show how the climate is creating vortices may give them pause: Graphic Image of multiple votices:
https://encrypted-tbn3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTAzCN_kbaXT_6M9kPuJjQZMHiAK4Zggc6B8CETrTwJxmgNLAwbCg
Robertvd says:
January 9, 2014 at 2:26 am
So more or less the Dr. Jennifer Francis story.
I was looking up Dr. Jennifer Francis and came across this:
Climate Denial Crock of the Week
http://climatecrocks.com/2013/06/19/kevin-trenberth-and-jennifer-francis-on-climate-ice-and-weather-whiplash/comment-page-1/#comment-39490
Climate Denial Crock of the Week
http://climatecrocks.com/
had this on the sidebar:
Climate Scientist Legal Defense Fund
Chuck L says:
January 8, 2014 at 6:17 pm
Caleb, I think that if the “Siberian Express” gets established in 10 days or so,….
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I certainly hope it gets established then. The State of the Union Address is on Tuesday, January 28, 2014. Be nice if Mother Nature added a blizzard to the ceremony.
u.k.(us) says:
January 8, 2014 at 9:04 pm
Gunga Din says:
January 8, 2014 at 8:28 pm
“It’s even in our pencils! How much more advanced would we be without pencils and what they’ve produced?”
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I’m using a:
STAEDTLER/ Mars Lumograph (2H) pencil , as we speak.
Something like it, probably got us to the moon,…. and back.
Real engineers use the .5mm size. The .7mm size is for those who lack control or a sufficient stock of replacement leads. – My current favorite is the Papermate Clear Point .5mm.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001PV2KYM/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B001PV2KYM&linkCode=as2&tag=poweandcont-20
Pamela Gray says: @ur momisugly January 8, 2014 at 7:53 pm
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Congrats, (We certainly need more smart farmers)
DOES he fly fish
Occasionally. But he mostly ships them.