Global warming devastates America

The London Telegraph ^ | January 7, 2014 | James Delingpole

[2ndDivisionVet]

See that white stuff floating down past the orange trees and landing on your alligators and manatees, Florida? That's global warming, that is.

See that frozen white thing by the harbor that used to look a green woman with a spiky headdress, New York? That's global warming, that is.

See that chilling solid yellow stream extending upwards from the snowy ground to your shrivelling blackened member after you made the very wrong call to take an al fresco leak, Chicagoans? That's global warming, that is.

How do we know this? Because Bryan Walsh of Time magazine says so:

But not only does the cold spell not disprove climate change, it may well be that global warming could be making the occasional bout of extreme cold weather in the U.S. even more likely. Right now much of the U.S. is in the grip of a polar vortex, which is pretty much what it sounds like: a whirlwind of extremely cold, extremely dense air that forms near the poles. Usually the fast winds in the vortex—which can top 100 mph (161 k/h)—keep that cold air locked up in the Arctic. But when the winds weaken, the vortex can begin to wobble like a drunk on his fourth martini, and the Arctic air can escape and spill southward, bringing Arctic weather with it. In this case, nearly the entire polar vortex has tumbled southward, leading to record-breaking cold….

And, of course, so does the Guardian say so….

While the ongoing cold snap is breaking records from Minnesota to Florida, it will not go down in history as the most significant Arctic outbreak in U.S. history, not even by a longshot. Scientists said the deep freeze gripping the U.S. does not indicate a halt or reversal in global warming trends, either....

[silverleaf]

oooh, this guy is good

[listenhillary]

[palmer]

"theories...that some of the warming...you're seeing up in the Arctic might be changing the atmospheric circulation in that part of the world...and maybe, makes these cold spells a little more likely than they otherwise be."

I've read all the theories. One the fundamental problems with all of them is that a couple degrees of warming has taken place at the surface in the Arctic but the polar vortex is in the stratosphere and there is no connection other than weather which is exactly what the cold snap was. If anything, the Arctic warmth will lead to less severe Arctic cold and that is a good thing in anybody's book (with the exception of drooling idiots of course).

[palmer]

next month Steger will be leading a team of six young adventurers on a 1,400-mile, 60-day-long dogsled expedition across

Bring lots of chili powder, curry powder, etc because the dog will be very gamey.

[FreedomPoster]

Nothing like a science writer with no education in science. I have to assume that Princeton degree is in something like Journalism or English.

[JohnnyP]

Chinese sex toys?

[KeyLargo]

So the media states that Polar vortex causes global cooling AND global warming. Which is it? Or is it both?

Time Mag Flashback: 1974 Issue Warns of Man-Made ‘Global Cooling’

By Greg Sheffield | July 24, 2006 | 09:48

“Scientists have found other indications of global cooling. For one thing there has been a noticeable expansion of the great belt of dry, high-altitude polar winds —the so-called circumpolar vortex”...

http://newsbusters.org/node/6546