About that “polar vortex”...

About that “polar vortex”...  The lamestream media, mindlessly repeating the talking points of the warmists, would have you believe that global warming caused the polar vortex that slammed most of the U.S. last week.  Other scientists, apparently not slurping from the warmist funding teats, say “Not so fast!” – as polar vortices have been around for quite a long time.  For instance, historians are pretty sure that the notoriously cold winter of 1777, in which George Washington and the Revolutionary Army huddled up in Valley Forge, was caused by a polar vortex quite similar to last week's.  Unless my memory is even worse than I thought, I'm pretty sure there were no gas hog SUVs, coal-fired electrical plants, or 747s in 1777.  As one of my favorite Englishmen (James Delingpole) puts it:

... without polar vortices, America might look a very different country today, possibly with many times more CCTV cameras, much poorer dental care, and with cricket as its national summer sport instead of baseball.

But the warmists place far more credence on their computer models than on those pesky facts...