The White House gets into the 'polar vortex' climate change blame business

The weather models now have North America being above-normal to the end of the forecast period on January 25th. As good as it gets in January.
So vortex here, gone tomorrow.
Now Europe and Russia are going to get the Arctic air-outflow.

Holdren, it should always be recalled, is a disciple of Schneider, who pushed lying for the cause of science policy. And especially part of Ehrlich’s neo-Malthusian delusion and career funding scam.

Their current argument is that no single event proves or disproves that there is no global warming. That is fair.However some of the alarmists then turn around and use the same single events to prove that global warming exists, like the single warm month in Russia and the warm summer in Australia . They argue in circles that is both dishonest and deceitful . Even when one presents longer term evidence that there has actually been no global warming for 17 years and the winters across the Northern Hemisphere have been cooling now for at least 15 years and to the extent that this cooling now carries through to the spring season in Canada and the cooling is starting already in the fall in United States , the policymakers try to hide these fact of a cooling planet from the public as we saw with the latest IPCC report . In United States cooling has been well underway now for at least 15 years The same is happening in Canada.
The following are monthly temperature trends for Contiguous US or 48 state as calculated by the NCDC/NOAA Climate at a Glance web page for the last 15 years [1998-2013 The figure reflect the linear trend in Fahrenheit degrees per decade
JAN -1.49 F/decade (declining)
FEB -2.64 (declining)
MAR +1.39 (rising)
APR -0, 22 (declining)
MAY -0.58 (declining)
JUN +1.18 (rising)
JUL +0.28 (rising)
AUG +0.03 (flat)
SEPT +0.09 (flat)
OCT -0.58 (declining)
NOV -0.75 (declining)
DEC -0.70 (declining)
Summary
7 months are declining, 2 months are flat, and 3 months are rising
WINTER AND FALL have DECLINING TEMPERATURES
SPRING AND SUMMER have RISING TEMPERATURES [spring is almost flat]
ANNUAL OR 12 MONTHS (JAN-DEC) -0.16F/decade SLIGHTLY DECLINING OR (almost flat)
Winter temperatures have been declining since 1998 in UNITED STATES All major temperature regions used by NCDC/NOAA show winter cooling for 1 5 years

We should not let this single SSW/polar vortex breakout event hide the fact that winters have been getting colder in North America before this event already, The polar vortex event reduced the base winter temperatures further . The polar vortex breakout event is like turning on the air coditioning in a room that was already getting colder due the colder winter trend . There is a colder winter temperature trend developing in many parts of Canada since 1998 and this colder air will sooner or later affect United States and North America
In Canada, the winter temperature departures from 1961-1990 averages [as per Environment Canada data] have been basically flat since 1998 when measured on the National level. However regionally it is quite a different picture. 7 of 11 major temperature regions represented by about 53 % of Canadian land areas [, mostly western and north western Canada,] have had winter temperatures declining since 1998. For another 20 % of the land areas involving Northeastern forest areas (Ontario and Quebec], the winter temperatures have been flat since 1998. Only the Atlantic region and Arctic Tundra, Mountains and Fiords, representing about 27 % of the land area show winter warming since 1998 mostly due to the past warm Atlantic Ocean. However the Canadian Arctic region has now started to cool post 2010 and winter temperature departures have already been 4-5 degrees cooler in the Arctic, tundra mountains and fiords. The current winter looks like it is going to be extremely cold across most of Canada but especially in the west, northwest and the Great Lakes region where temperatures around -55 C are being recorded. January and February are predicted to have below normal temperatures. I see Canadian winters getting even colder over the next several decades and new winter records being set as both coastal areas and the Arctic also cool due to cooling north Atlantic and North Pacific ocean SST.

Holdren says “a growing body of evidence suggests that the kind of extreme cold being experienced by much of the United States as we speak, is a pattern that we can expect to see with increasing frequency”.
Back in 1971 John Holdren believed that human activity was going to cause a new ice age. When that didn’t happen and things got warmer through the 80’s and 90’s he switched his stance saying that human activity is causing global warming.
For the last 17 years however temps have plateaued and now they seem to be heading back down again. But instead of just switching back to the whole ice age thing again Holdren seems to be mixing the two theories by saying that it’s getting warmer in the North Pole which is causing it to get colder here in the U.S..
So he’s basically politicizing the weather by saying, whenever there is bad weather of any kind, man is to blame, so we need to tax you so we can make good weather.
I am reminded of the scene from the movie ‘Wizard of Oz’ when Dorothy discovers that the Wizard isn’t a wizard at all but just smoke and mirrors when she sees the man behind the curtain. Being revealed as a fake the wizard tries to divert Dorothy by saying “Pay no attention to man behind the curtain!”
I am also reminded of the famous George Bush quote.
“fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can’t get fooled again.”

“The fact is that no single weather episode can either prove or disprove global climate change.”
What one single weather episode can prove is that “Political Science” is the only science that “Planetary Regime” Johnny cares about.

Alec, aka Daffy Duck says: @ur momisugly January 9, 2014 at 6:06 am
They tightly measure crops, and crop failure…. there have been no major polar outbreak large/deep enough to hit Florida since 1989!
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Sorry, there you are wrong.
Arctic blast devastates Florida’s citrus, wildlife

January 27, 2010
…A massive arctic blast plunged through much of the nation’s heartland and into the southeast, bringing with it one of the worst cold snaps Florida has seen in more than 20 years. Record-low temperatures sent farmers scrambling to protect their crops, some unsuccessfully….
…bone-chilling temperatures also took a toll on Florida’s wildlife. More than 100 manatees have been found dead since the beginning of the year, and the Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission (FWC) said at least 77 of them died from “cold stress.”
Officials also think the cold snap killed thousands of saltwater fish….

Dr. Holdren tells the American people that climate change [global warming] makes extreme weather events [like the cold spell that we just had] more likely. The problem that I see is, what is an “extreme” event ?. Some are suggesting that the current polar vortex breakout is an extreme winter event , like the similar event in January 1985[ 26.37 F] . Yes it was cold , but a check of the NCDC /NOAA records shows that there have been at least 15 cold January ‘s like 1985 January. This year’s average January temperature is not yet available. So perhaps this recent “extreme” event is just an extra colder than normal January that has happened on a fairly frequent basis since 1895 . Some say that the 2010 winter was an extreme event when the cold went all the way to Florida and froze the orange trees [ 30.55F] .. Yet there have been approx .55 January’s as cold as 2010 January since 1895. So what the alarmists now call as ‘extreme’ event winters supposedly are just regular colder winters that we have all forgotten about and are part of our periodic seasonal winter patterns. There is no evidence that these colder winters today or 100 years ago were caused by greenhouse gases generated by man nor are they all extreme events .