Afternoon Must-Read: Emily Atkin: Everything You Wanted To Know About The ‘Polar Vortex’

Emily Atkin: Everything You Wanted To Know About The ‘Polar Vortex’:

If climate change is real, then how did it get so cold?… Greg Laden… [says] the Arctic air that usually sits on top of our planet is ‘taking an excursion’ south for a couple of days, leaving the North Pole ‘relatively warm’ and our temperate region not-so-temperate. ‘Go Home Arctic, You’re Drunk’, he titled the explanation: ‘The Polar Vortex, a huge system of moving swirling air that normally contains the polar cold air, has shifted so it is not sitting right on the pole as it usually does…. We are not seeing an expansion of cold, an ice age, or an anti-global warming phenomenon. We are seeing the usual cold polar air taking an excursion…’