THE POLAR VORTEX

Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez has warned us that we are all going to die within the next twelve years because of global warming. This should be a great comfort to anyone really concerned about this, because she is wrong about nearly everything. This is so stupid that the number of Democrats willing to consider voting for her as President of the United States has plunged to a new low of 74%.

We are now dealing with the paradox of liberal politicians blaming everything on “climate change” when they really mean “global warming.” They can’t actually use the word “global warming” anymore because there, ah, has been not been any significant increase in worldwide temperature since Clinton was President. This is why the global warming alarmists at the UN International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) no longer use the term “global warming.” They prefer “climate change” because that is too ambiguous to challenge.

If this seems confusing, it’s because it is confusing. It is confusing because nothing being predicted by the global warming (climate change) alarmist group has ever come true and it extremely unlike that any of their future predictions will be true either. One of the problems is that increased levels of CO2 in the atmosphere do not actually increase temperature. To be specific, in order to have CO2 levels cause a 1 degree change in global temperature, the current levels would have to double. No one is predicting anything close to that.

So, where are these predictions coming from one might ask? The answer is that they are focusing on the amount of water vapor in the air, assuming that increased CO2 will result in increased water vapor. The theory is increased water vapor has created a hot spot which assumed to be about 30,000 to 36,000 feet above the tropics. The problem with the theory is that no one has actually “found” such a hot spot. This is not from lack of trying. They have been launching weather balloons for about 40 years to measure the temperature in this area. It’s just that, so far, those darn thermometers are failing to record any increase in temperature at all.

The IPCC knows this, they just ignore it. Instead they run computer models based assumptions they know are false. These are the models that are scaring everyone.  They also fail to point out something that should be more than obvious. We get violent weather when there is a conflict between a cold front and a warm front. If you want to know how this works, watch “The Perfect Storm” again. Warning, the character played by George Clooney still dies. The point is that the more severe the difference in temperature between the two fronts when this happens, the more violent the storm. In other words, if the Polar Regions actually did become warmer, the result would be less violent storms, not more violent storms.

Scientist know this, they just ignore it because every scientist knows that if you want to get paid, you need to write a report that predicts horrible things because of global warming. The truth is just too boring to qualify for high compensation.

Following is a brilliant article in the New York Times that admits all of the above and then draws an incredibly stupid assumption:

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/18/climate/polar-vortex-2019.html

They blame the global warming, that is not happening, for a delay in the arrival of the polar vortex, which definitely is coming. They then claim the polar vortex will be more violent because of the delay. This is how they explain this:

We’re going into what looks like a pretty unusually cold period, even for late January, punctuated by winter storms. While climate change is warming the earth, not all parts of the earth are warming at the same rate.” Then in a rare moment of honesty they admit that: “There have always been major storms, of course. In this case, the polar vortex, the El Nino pattern and the jet stream flowing from the Pacific all play a role.” In other words this has been going on for a long time with or without the alleged global warming.”

Then my favor part is where they try to explain why the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) forecast of a milder than normal winter is still accurate. Here is how that works. If you average the temperature in Fairbanks Alaska over a six month period starting in January and ending in July, the result will be warmer than if you only rely on January temperatures. What a joke. If NOAA issued a report in October that blew the forecast for January by a huge margin, why on earth would anyone believe their predictions for 100 years from now?

If you think it is cold now in New York, just wait for the polar vortex to arrive. While you are sitting in your electric car as a sacrifice to the weather Gods to reduce CO2 emissions and save the planet from extinction, don’t forget your coat.

TDM