by Becky Fried | January 08, 2014 | Release URL
Here at the White House, while we’re beginning to thaw from this week’s bone-chilling deep freeze, our discussions about the science of weather extremes are heating up.
We know that no single weather episode proves or disproves climate change. Climate refers to the patterns observed in the weather over time and space – in terms of averages, variations, and probabilities. But we also know that this week’s cold spell is of a type there’s reason to believe may become more frequent in a world that’s getting warmer, on average, because of greenhouse-gas pollution.
Join us this Friday, January 10th at 2:00 p.m. ET for We the Geeks: “Polar Vortex” and Extreme Weather, for a conversation with leading meteorologists, climate scientists, and weather experts about why temperatures dipped to such frigid lows this week, how weather experts turn raw data into useful forecasts, and what we know about extreme weather events in the context of a changing climate.
Cristin Dorgelo and resident polar-science expert Brendan Kelly from the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy will moderate the live discussion, to include:
- Stephanie Abrams, The Weather Channel
- Dr. J. Marshall Shepherd, President of the American Meteorological Society and Professor, University of Georgia
- Jim Overland, Arctic researcher at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
- Jason Samenow, Capital Weather Gang’s chief meteorologist and theWashington Post’s Weather Editor
- Bernadette Woods Placky, Emmy-award winning Meteorologist at Climate Central
We hope you’ll join us this Friday at 2:00 p.m. ET at WhiteHouse.gov/We-The-Geeks and on the White House Google+ page to hear from the experts on the front lines of weather forecasting and climate science.
Got questions? Ask using the hashtag #WeTheGeeks on Twitter or on Google+ and we’ll answer some of them during the live Hangout.
“We the Geeks” is a series of Google+ Hangouts to discuss science, technology, and innovation here in the United States. Join the conversation on Twitter and be sure to sign up for email updates about future “We the Geeks” hangouts.
Becky Fried is Senior Communications Advisor and Web Editor at the White House Office of Science & Technology Policy
ps. Visit the White House blog and sign-up for the White House climate newsletter http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2014/01/08/we-geeks-polar-vortex-and-extreme-weather
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Here’s the math for all you dummies: Scientist + Politics / (UN based
marxism X (hope + change) X Obama) = bat guano. You can detect this
poisonous gas by it’s distinct swampy-bottom/ammonia odor.
White House science advisor explains the polar vortex.
I know better because my political ideology informs me far better than any
expert consensus. Wow, people. Hats off to the WH channel for allowing
comments, unlike some whose nonsense can’t stand up to criticism.
The #PolarVortex explained in 2 minutes—and why climate change makes
extreme weather more likely going forward → http://go.wh.gov/431vam
The #PolarVortex explained in 2 minutes—and why climate change makes
extreme weather more likely going forward → http://go.wh.gov/431vam
Its the president’s science advisor. Bias alert. How about more credible data from several sources? This is not the first polar vortex and certainly not the last. Climate change is completely normal, as the earth heats and cools. If any of you remember your first grade science class, back when Pangea was around, the earth was quite warm. And it cooled. And it is simply warming back up. If you could compare what a tiny surface area of the earth is actually inhibited by humans to the uninhibited parts, there is no way co2 emissions from that source alone could… Read more »
The bottom line that’s being missed here is that global warming IS real, as is global cooling. It’s just the way the earth works. The LIE is that AGW is real (that’s Anthropogenic Global Warming, aka man-made global warming). CO2 has an insignificant impact on global temperatures, and the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere LAGS temperature increases (that means higher temps CREATE more CO2, not the other way around). You know what LEADS global temperature change? Solar activity. Until mankind learns to legislate the SUN, climate will CONTINUE to change and the world will continue to both warm AND… Read more »
LOL more of that GLOBAL WARMING BS to push the AGENDA 21 in our throts. If
THEY stop the weather modification BS, everything will come back to normal
but sure also need some time. An interesting “thing” I would mean is that
now the WH make a short video for it. Is here still someone that BELIEF
what the WH broadcast is true?
Wow… the ignorance on these comments is staggering. We have a climate
SCIENTIST telling us the Polar Vortex is caused by global warming, and we
have conservatives who STILL refuse to believe it…
‘Merica, where being gay is a choice and being obese is genetic…
If you people think that global warming is a hoax, then why is the ice at
the polls shrinking?? If our government doesnt develop a clean energy
strategy, our planet is doomed!!!!! If we cannot vote for Obama in 2016,
then it HAS to be Hillary, because nobody else is as qualified!!!!!
The President should be doing presentations on this stuff during the
superbowl. Just cut into the middle of the game – midplay – and explain to
these hillbillies what is going on. Every channel.
The reality just hasn’t sunk in for close to half of the country and the
scientists have been warning about this since Al Gore spoke about it in the
90s. The half that still don’t get it or call it a hoax won’t get it
without drastic action that congress will never agree to.
All you idiots that believe this garbage deserve the coming liquidation.
Absolute nonsense! Nonscience!…from Eugenicist John Holdren, author of
the nazi anti-human, population reduction death book, ‘Ecoscience’!
Earth has been cooling for 13 years in line with the decrease in sunspot
activity. The Global warming FRAUD is EXPOSED!
*A Global Government needs Global Problems to Solve*
The NPR-style NLP voice will not convince anyone, but trendies that what
you say is true. Global warming… ah… climate change… (changed at
Bilderberg 2010) is the means to usher in a new global taxing scheme.
Personal and Collective sovereignty is being transfered to this global
system in order to keep us ‘safe’.
*Why are we not looking at **REAL** global problems like Fukushima?*
#Agenda21 #Propaganda #SocialEngineering #ArtificialScarcity
Oh palease… how is that global warming ship doing? Ice breakers get to it
yet? Oh yeah… where do I send my tax money? Should I make a personal
check to our favorite tree hugger?
Are you God of some sort of?
Climate change and Peak Oil are hotly debated but what if we are wrong
and we pass the point of no return? Who plays GOD on who survives or
we let the planet go bye bye?
Thank you Sir ! Climate change has to be addressed globally; I am glad the
US President has an adviser who recognizes the problem.
Thanks for the explanation… Europe’s next, right? Is this a changing
point on white house environmental policies?
It’s real there are gases trapped in the ice that are being released. Could
cause a chain reaction, that may make living here much harder than it needs
to be.
I see the Flying Monkey’s of Denial has swarmed over from their echo
chambers in order to thumb this down: dismissives, you can thumb down a
video/science/data all you wish, but reality WILL bite you in your tuchas
the same as it will those of us who understand the data.
This is proper Orwellian shit here, that John P Holdren is Obama’s top
eugenicist, Webster Tarpley exposes this scumbag in great detail, SEARCH:
“The elites plan for global extermination”
With the recent extreme cold and freeze condition experienced by many parts of USA, Canada, the hype about Global Warming seems to have taken back seat. The fact of the matter is that earth is violently fluctuating between two extremes. Earth has parallel world design, where when one part is heating another part is cooling to balance the system. Exponentially increased heat and unwinding force invariably means there will be exponentially increased winding force. These forces are bound to unleash when climate changes. We are heading for huge destruction by unwinding force of heat manifesting into fire bound destructions and… Read more »
White House Science Advisor Dr John Holdren explains the Polar Vortex and
why we are so cold, or not. The Polar Vortex Explained in 2 Minutes
With the recent extreme cold and freeze condition experienced by many parts of USA, Canada, the hype about Global Warming seems to have taken back seat. The fact of the matter is that earth is violently fluctuating between two extremes. Earth has parallel world design, where when one part is heating another part is cooling to balance the system. Exponentially increased heat and unwinding force invariably means there will be exponentially increased winding force. These forces are bound to unleash when climate changes. We are heading for huge destruction by unwinding force of heat manifesting into fire bound destructions and… Read more »
White House Science Advisor Dr John Holdren explains the Polar Vortex and
why we are so cold, or not. The Polar Vortex Explained in 2 Minutes
Now… We finally know the REAL effects of global “warming”.
The Polar Vortex explained in two minutes (and why climate change makes
extreme weather more likely going forward.)
The Polar Vortex Explained in 2 Minutes
The Polar Vortex explained in two minutes (and why climate change makes
extreme weather more likely going forward.)
The Polar Vortex Explained in 2 Minutes
what a crock. Storms and events such as this are the earths way of correcting itself. – if there was no human race on the planet this would still happen. – when I have a cold my nose runs. When the earth has a cold it creates a super polar vortex. -if you try to prevent a cold. You actually weaken the immune system. Then you get an even worse one later. FACT. – THE EARTH HAS A FRICKEN COLD. . You think a Fricken Prius will help this. the fact is that you spend countless dollars fighting global warming… Read more »
Some of these commenters must be slack-jawed, Faux News-believing, yokels.
If 97 doctors told them they needed an operation to remove their fungating
tumour, they’d believe the 3 who told them it was a hoax created by doctors
to make money.
Yeah I am going to believe some scum bag who advocates poisoning the water
supply!
PURE PROPAGANDA from the white house
OBAMA SUCKS
Oh its the white house! It must be true!!
We had temperatures like these and record cold days several times 30 or 40
years ago. No one called it a “polar vortex”. It was called a cold snap.
It’s funny how they made an ordinary winter cold snap sound all science-y
and scary. Run for your lives! It’s the polar vortex…
thanks can i have my chicken now Mr KFC
Is this the same vortex that was going to freeze of the earth in the 70’s?
Intelligent Americans aren’t buying this hoax any longer. When can we
expect the sequel to the Al gore Scare Movie? Panic for Profit is what we
will be calling it.
LIES LIES DON’T BELIEVE THIS VIDEO LMAO, GLOBAL WARMING IS A MYTH