THE WESTERNER: Polar Vortex: Killer Freeze Is Really Due To...Wait For It...Global Warming

The record freezing temperatures blanketing the Midwest and Northern states are breaking records. How cold is it? It's so cold that for some it confirms just how bad global warming is.
No, that's not a joke. As frigid, killing cold besieges Midwestern cities such as Chicago, newspapers, and pundits repeat this foolishness that the warming climate is responsible for this record cold snap. They expect those of us who don't know any better, or who fear being ridiculed, to swallow their climate-change propaganda whole.
"Chicago's record for coldest temperature ever could fall as polar vortex has city 'in the crosshairs'," a Chicago Tribune headline said Wednesday.
That is, global warming makes the world both hotter and colder, simultaneously. It's the new climate consensus among activists. It covers all the bases!
"Alarmists Resurrect Theory That Global Warming Is Making Winters Colder," as one headline in The Daily Caller last March put it.
The British left-wing Guardian's recent headline, looking at recent record snow in Europe, summed up this contradictory thinking: "Weatherwatch: climate change cooks up ideal conditions for snow."
Funny, because just a little over a decade ago global warming activists and their media allies warned us that global warming would soon put an end to cold weather. The exact opposite of what they say today.
"Snowfalls are now just a thing of the past," a headline in the British newspaper the Independent famously claimed back in 2000.
At the time, global warmists nearly all believed the same thing. To lend its report credibility, the Independent quoted a Dr. David Viner, a climate scientist at the University of East Anglia: "Children aren't going to know what snow is."
For the record, since then, Britain has been hit by record and near-record cold snaps and snow. And yes, British children know what snow is, only too well.
But it isn't just the media doing this. Just 11 years ago, former Vice President Al Gore, who won a Nobel Prize for his unhinged, unscientific global warming advocacy, warned "there is a 75% chance that the entire north polar ice cap, during some of the summer months, could be completely ice-free within the next five to seven years."

Ice, Ice Baby

That was in 2009. Jump ahead five years to 2014. As IBD wrote later, "By 2014, Arctic ice had grown thicker and covered a greater area than it did when (Gore) made his prediction."
Just wondering, but has the Nobel committee revoked Gore's award yet?
We could go on and on. Whenever there's an extreme weather event or disaster, it's always global warming.
Last summer's epic, destructive fires in California? Global warming, the state's then-Gov. Jerry Brown said.
The Polar Vortex bringing record cold to many parts of the nation's Midwest? Also global warming.
Weather too hot? Global warming. Weather too cold? Global warming. Too much rain? Global warming. Drought? Global warming. What's the question? Doesn't matter. The answer's the same. Global warming. To true believers in the global warming religion, everything is a sign...

Climate Change Reality Check

The fact is, our climate changes all the time. As a highly complex system, climate is inherently unstable. Saying "climate change" is merely stating an obvious fact: it's never not changing. And claiming it's all due to human-made CO2 runs into a central issue: All of the statistical models assume that increases in CO2 will lead inevitably to higher temperatures. It's science, the activists say.
Unfortunately, for 20 years now, average temperatures have shown little if any change at all, even though CO2 concentrations have gone up. This is contradiction can't be argued away.

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