White House Links Polar Vortex to Global Warming
Much of the continental United States has been gripped by subfreezing and atypical temperatures due to the weather anomaly — a polar vortex drifting much farther south than is typical. Some climate change skeptics have contended that the unseasonably cold weather indicates that the phenomenon of global warming has been exaggerated. On Wednesday, the Obama administration pushed back against this narrative and released a video insisting that global warming was a factor leading to the polar vortex.
The president’s science advisor, Dr. John Holdren warned in a video published on the White House’s YouTube account that people should not believe skeptics claiming that global warming is a faulty theory.
“A growing body of evidence suggests that the kind of extreme cold being experienced by much of the United States as we speak is a pattern that we can expect to see with increasing frequency as global warming continues,” Holdren said.
“If you’ve been hearing that extreme cold spells, like the one we’re having in the United States now, disproves global warming, don’t believe it,” he concluded.
Watch the video below via the White House:
[h/t Buzzfeed]
[Photo via screengrab]
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