Global Warming, Polar Vortex: Don't believe your lyin' eyes

Vincent J. Curtis

1 Feb 2019

Don’t believe your lyin’ eyes and keep the faith.  That was the gist of the Spectator editorial. (Get out of the cold and think about global warming.  1 Feb 2019)

 Apparently, a polar vortex is a sign of climate change caused by man, even though these things aren’t supposed to happen until fifty to eighty years from now, according to the models.

North America experienced a polar vortex during the winter of 1977, when Buffalo had a snowfall every day for two and a half months straight.  The belief in those days was of a coming ice age, and the polar vortex was a sign of it.

Cold being a sign of coming cold makes more sense than cold being a sign of coming warmth.  But the coming ice age theory gave way in the late 1980s to the coming thermal catastrophe theory.  And so the same phenomenon is explained by diametrically opposite reasons.

Climate change has become a cult or religion, and the editorial urged continued belief in the religion in the face of contra-indicating facts.  Baal, the god of environmentalism, must be pleased.

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The editorial offered a number of facts in support of its position that simply aren’t facts, though one can understand why the editors would be misled.  In the first place, it consults with people whose job depends upon the continued belief in the anthropogenic global warming hypothesis.

The hottest decade “on record” is without doubt the 1930s.  The year 1934 is the hottest “on record” with 1936 being the next hottest.  The earth entered a period of consistent cooling between 1940 and 1970, with a couple of spikes in the 1950s.  This period of consistent cooling is what led to the coming ice age hypothesis.  The year 2018 is not the forth hottest year “on record”, and if it were, it would require an explanation for the cooling that occurred from the three hotter years – a cooling that should not have occurred.

I put “on record” in scare quotes for a couple of reasons.  First, is that the “record” doesn’t begin until 1880, when the United States established its continental weather network.  The “ record” from around the world did not become much good until about 1950, when weather stations became established truly around the world - in significant numbers and in significant places other than the United States.  Hence the 1930s may not be part of the “on record” period.

The second reason is that NOAA has been tampering with the historical data in order to make it appear that there is a continuous warming trend.  They call what they do “normalizing.”  Hence, terrestrial thermometric readings appear to show an upward trend in temperatures, when satellite temperature measurements show no significant change in global temperatures since 1998.  This failure to observe global warming by satellite is the global warming pause that requires an explanation, and this pause is why climate changers are talking about warming of the deep oceans: the oceans ate my warming.

I would have hoped that the series of pieces I sent in December would have at least given pause to the Spectator’s editorializing on global warming, but I guess the faith in Baal, the god of environmentalism, is too strong.

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