White House Makes Its Global Warming Case Amid Polar Vortex Deniers

New York Magazine ^ | 1/8 | Adam Martin

[nickcarraway]

All kinds of people and organizations, from media to scientists, have been pushing back against the idea, popular among the Rush Limbaugh set, that recent bitingly cold weather disproves global warming. Rather, they say, global warming actually causes this extreme weather, by making the polar air mass more unstable. That's now the official line of the White House, which is embarking on a bit of a media blitz to deny the notion that one cold snap means climate change is a lie. In a video released Wednesday, President Obama's science and technology advisor, Dr. John Holdren, made the two-minute case.

"The fact is that no single weather episode can either prove or disprove global climate change. Climate is the pattern of weather that we observe geographically, and over the seasons, and it's described in terms of averages, variations, and probabilities," Holdren soberly explained. To further make the point, according to BuzzFeed, the White House plans to dedicate one of its "We the Geeks" sessions to the polar vortex, throwing a team of scientists and experts at the issue, presumably to offer well-reasoned, scientific explanations.

But well-reasoned scientific explanations can only do so much in the face of conspiracy theories and insinuation. "In the middle of a hoax, they’re perpetrating a hoax, but they’re relying on their total dominance of the media to lie to you each and every day about climate change and global warming," Limbaugh said on Monday. Beat that, science.

[jimsin]

THIS GLOBAL WARMING THING IS OMINOUS..
WE MUST START A HEADLONG FURIOUS DRIVE TO BUILD SEA WALL UP AND DOWN THE COAST OF FLORIDA

One hundred out of one hundred lobbyists for the big, politically connected, Sea-Wall construction companies agree wholeheartedly

UM YES I/M UNDOUBTEDLY THEY WORK FOR COMPANYS WHOSE CEOS PUSH IMMIGRATION ‘REFORM’ BECAUSE THEY WANT MASS BORDERLESSNESS SO AS TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF DIRT CHEAP LABOR SUBSIDIZED BY TAXPAYERS WHO’RE PROVIDIN’ THEIR SLAVES WITH FOOD HEALTHCARE AND OTHER ‘FREE STUFF’

SO IT WORKS OUT WELL FOR ALL OF THOSE OUTFITS BUT NOT SO WELL FOR AMERICA AND IT’S HARD WORKIN TAXPAYERS....TAKE A LOOK AT THE BRAINY BEAUTY ANN COULTER AS SHE SETTLES THE IMMIGRATION HASH OF TOO HAPLESS BOYS AND A RECENT INTERVIEW ON LARRY KUDLOW’S CNN OFFERING ...

HERE SHE TEACHES US EVERY THING WE NEED TO KNOW ABOUT IMMIGRATION...PLEASE WATCH THIS EVERYONE...IT’S FASCINATING AND YOU GET TO LEARN TONS:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkBorge8smc

[RipSawyer]

“I am disheartened, disgusted and depressed.”
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The left will claim that you need to take off the 3-D glasses.

[John Valentine]

...they can't use it again without being hypocrites, if that bothers them.

It doesn't.

[edcoil]

Little confused on this polar vortex. Cold molecules are slow moving as opposed to warm molecules fast moving so cold never displaces hot, hot always displaces cold

so, how does the cold weather displace warmer weather?