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John Holdren burned again: Piling On: More New Research Shows No Link Between ‘Polar Vortex’ and Global Warming

Piling On: More New Research Shows No Link Between “Polar Vortex” and Global Warming

http://www.cato.org/blog/piling-more-new-research-shows-no-link-between-polar-vortex-agw-sorry-john-holdren

Paul C. “Chip” Knappenberger and Patrick J. Michaels
Global Science Report is a feature from the Center for the Study of Science, where we highlight one or two important new items in the scientific literature or the popular media. For broader and more technical perspectives, consult our monthly “Current Wisdom.”

This is getting embarrassing.
Another scientific paper has just been published that again finds no association between Arctic sea ice loss and extreme cold and wintery conditions across the U.S.—White House Science Advisor John Holdren’s favorite mechanism for tying last winter’s persistent “polar vortex” over the eastern US to anthropogenic global warming (AGW).
We wonder just what it will take for the White House to publicly admit that it was grossly wrong. At the very least, it needs to disavow a widely-disseminated YouTube video featuring Holdren explaining the link between last winter’s polar vortex and human-caused climate change. There is no such link. Of course, this won’t happen, as Holdren was simply engaging in a publicity stunt relying on tenuous science to scare up support for President Obama’s Climate Action Plan.  The President is hell-bent on an endless string of executive actions aimed at manipulating the energy market and reducing our energy choices along the way.
As we reported when the video was first released last January, the science linking human-caused climate change to the southward excursions of the polar vortex was a stretch to begin with. It was then dealt a major blow by a study led by Colorado State climate researcher Elizabeth Barnes that was coincidentally published a few days after Holdren’s YouTube video. Barnes’s found that natural variability dominates the observed record, making it impossible to detect any human-caused global warming signal even if one were to exist in the vortex data (which there is no proof of). Shortly after that, a collection of very prominent climate scientists specializing in research into atmospheric circulation patterns wrote a letter to a prominent journal stating that drawing the type of connection that Holdren did was not scientifically advisable
Spurred by all of this, the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) sent a petition to the White House Office of Science & Technology Policy (OSTP) to force Holdren issue a correction under the terms of the Data Quality Act. According to CEI, “OSTP guidelines require the agency …

Not worried about global warming? The Obama admin. will fix that! New White House initiative tries to sway public on climate threats

Excerpt from E&E:
New White House initiative tries to sway public on climate threats
Jean Chemnick, E&E reporter
Published: Wednesday, March 19, 2014
 
The White House launched an effort today aimed at helping communities and individuals understand their vulnerability to climate change, starting with rising sea levels that will swamp the coasts. The Climate Data Initiative springs from President Obama’s commitment last year to improve how the government provides information about warming. It’s also part of a broader push spearheaded by White House counselor John Podesta to make climate change more tangible to an American public that polls suggest sees the issue as distant and theoretical.
“Every citizen will be affected by climate change — and all of us must work together to make our communities stronger and more resilient to its impacts,” Podesta said today in a joint blog post with science adviser John Holdren. The two will host an event tonight at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building to roll out the initiative.
The new initiative proposes to spread the word through a website — Climate.Data.gov — which will allow the public to see National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and NASA data projections related to climate change. It will initially focus on rising seas and coastal flooding, but then broaden its scope to include other climate-related risks.
As part of the effort, NOAA and NASA will host a competition among private companies for visualizations and simulations “that help people understand their exposure to coastal-inundation hazards and other vulnerabilities.” The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency also released new mapping information today showing how climate change might affect bridges, roads, railroad tunnels, canals, river gauges and other infrastructure. And NOAA is soliciting comment from private-sector experts about ways to increase public access to its data.
“By taking the enormous data sets regularly collected by NASA, NOAA, and other agencies and applying the ingenuity, creativity, and expertise of technologists and entrepreneurs, the Climate Data Initiative will help create easy-to-use tools for regional planners, farmers, hospitals, and businesses across the country — and empower America’s communities to prepare themselves for the future,” Podesta and Holdren wrote in their blog post.
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