The leftist Washington Post reports.
Excerpt:
Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport broke a 141-year-old record low temperature, reaching 4 degrees. The National Weather Service said the low reached early Tuesday broke a 5-degree record set on the day in 1873. It was also a record low for the month of March. Dulles International Airport – also outside Washington – tied a 1993 record for the month at -1 degree.
Both airports broke record lows two days in a row.
Schools and government offices along the East Coast were closed Tuesday or delayed opening. Virginia State Police said slickened roads were factors in three traffic deaths. And authorities in Maryland’s Prince George’s County said a 60-year-old woman died after shoveling snow there.
Global warming is to blame for these record cold temperatures. But wait, Washington wasn’t the only one victimized by the global warming monster.
On Monday, leftist Reuters reports that the cold was all up and down the East coast.
Excerpt:
A deadly winter storm hit the U.S. East Coast on Monday with freezing rain, snow and near-record cold, cancelling about 2,700 flights, shutting down Washington and closing schools and local governments.
The latest in a series of weather systems to pummel the winter-weary eastern United States, the storm dumped about 4 inches on the U.S. capital by early afternoon as it swept from the Mississippi Valley to the Atlantic coast, the National Weather Service said.
Brian Hurley, a weather service meteorologist, said temperatures would be about 30 degrees Fahrenheit (15 degrees Celsius) below normal as a cold front settled in from Great Plains to the Atlantic coast.
“It’s really, really cold, temperatures dropping into the teens (Fahrenheit, minus-7 to minus-10 Celsius) and the normal highs are around 50 (10C) at this point,” he said.
At least four weather-related traffic deaths in Texas, Oklahoma and Tennessee were blamed on the wide-ranging storm over the weekend.
And on Tuesday, leftist Reuters reported that the cold had spread westward.
Excerpt:
The eastern and central United States were plunged into a deep freeze on Tuesday, with record low temperatures in the wake of a deadly storm expected to moderate in coming days.
The late-winter storm left behind frigid temperatures after pushing freezing rain, sleet and snow from the Mississippi Valley to the Atlantic and Gulf coasts.
Temperatures this week will be “below average east of the Rockies, as it has been for a good part of the winter,” said Bob Oravec, a National Weather Service meteorologist in College Park, Maryland.
The icy front sent the mercury plunging to minus 1F (minus 18C) at Washington Dulles International Airport, tying a monthly record, the weather service said.
Baltimore; Scranton, Pennsylvania; Morgantown, West Virginia; Zanesville, Ohio; and Flint, Michigan all set or tied record lows.
The latest in a series of arctic weather systems to grip the winter-weary eastern United States, the cold front stretched from the Canadian border to southern Texas, where freezing rain was forecast.
[…]The storm was blamed for at least six deaths, most of them from traffic accidents on slippery roads. A woman in Bowie, Maryland, died on Monday from a likely heart attack after shoveling snow, a spokesman for the Prince George’s County fire department said.
About 730 U.S. flights were canceled and about 2,700 delayed on Tuesday in the wake of the bad weather, according to airline tracking site FlightAware.com. About 8,000 flights were canceled or delayed on Monday.
Those people were not killed by record cold temperatures, they were killed by the global warming monster!!1! They were caught up in a fiery explosion caused by cowboy capitalism and insufficient government spending on science education. We need more grant money for a study to find out why you believe your own eyes, rather than the dire warnings of greedy scientists and their power-hungry socialist masters in government.
WINTERY KNIGHT 
So, how do you respond to an entrenched global warming cultist who states that these polar vortices ARE a result of global warming (or climate change)? I have tried several responses, but I am curious to hear others’.
LikeLike
By pointing out that the portal vortex was last used to explain global cooling:
LikeLike
You might be interested in a short paper I wrote in which I use a simple probability tree to try to think rationally about questions associated with “climate change”. You can find it here: http://valuefunctionanalytics.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Climate-Change-Policy-Model.pdf
LikeLike
It is interesting to see how the belief in global warming correlates to how cold (or hot) it is in the place people are currently residing. In Australia they’re talking about record heat waves (Global Warming panic?): http://www.smh.com.au/environment/weather/highly-significant-heatwave-smashes-australian-records-20140106-30dx5.html
But perhaps more significantly, 2013 was projected to be among the 10 hottest years recorded (note this was for the first 9 months): http://www.wmo.int/pages/mediacentre/press_releases/documents/ProvisionalStatementStatusClimate2013.pdf
Finally, temperature data from across the Globe shows a rise of temperature in 2013 and continuing into 2014 (note the source is some fairly random school’s site though): http://www.nsstc.uah.edu/data/msu/t2lt/uahncdc_lt_5.6.txt
Basically, I’m just saying that I’m not sure that just having record colds in various places demonstrates Global Warming isn’t happening any more than record hot temps in various places shows it is. Long term trends are more telling, and it seems a little bit as though 2013 might have actually warmed up a bit. It’s easy to be in really cold places (I’m in Minnesota, for goodness sake, where we had almost a solid week of -50 wind chill!) and just assume that proves Global Warming is not happening; but people in hot places often assume the opposite (and people in the U.S., according to some survey I tried to track down and failed, tend to “believe in” global warming more in the summer.
So yeah, lengthy comment, but I’m just wondering if this post (and some others I’ve seen about how a cold time in certain parts of the U.S. allegedly shows Global Warming is false) really calls into question Global Warming (any more than a post about heat waves in Russia or Australia confirm it). I’d be curious to read your thoughts!
LikeLike
The data we are most concerned with is the IPCC data showing no significant warming in the last 17 years. That transcends weather.
LikeLike
JW, speaking personally, I believe the earth is gradually warming, current pause notwithstanding. What I dispute is the degree of warming, how much humans really have to do with it, and whether we actually understand the weather well enough to know what any action or non-action does.
The failure of…I think it was 114 out of 117 climate models to predict anything that resembles the current flatline or pause should tell anyone with an open mind that we haven’t got it figured out and that throwing billions at “fixes” that do not actually help, that non-first world economies can’t even think about doing, and that will financially cripple the less well off in first world economies is foolish and short-sighted.
When I look at the world’s CO2 history and see that the last 17 years coincide with the greatest CO2 output in human history and I see that it has had no appreciable affect on our temperature, it’s hard to stomach the assertion that CO2 all by itself can ruin the planet. And frankly, watching the anthropomorphic climate change folks rewrite the story every time new data comes out frankly reminds me of the wall that evolutionists put out every time something that indicates life can’t arise on its own is published.
Just my two cents.
LikeLike
Remember, the Earth was warmer during the Medieval Warming Period (1300s) than it is now, and there is also global warming on Mars. What can explain these facts? Simple – warming is not related to how much people drive their cars, it’s related the level of activity on the Sun. Greenland was called Greenland because during the MWP it was GREEN.
LikeLike