CRACK JOURNALISTS AT WORK – AT 9:21 A.M. ET:   The phrase of the week, of course, is "polar vortex."  That is supposedly the cause of the deep chill we're experiencing in the U.S.  And what is the cause?  Well, to some at least, it has to be, natch, global warming.  But, ahem, TIME was saying something very different about the polar vortex not too many decades ago.  From PJ Media:

As spotted by Steve Goddard, and linked to by Climate Depot:

In 1974, Time Magazine blamed the cold polar vortex on global cooling.

‘Scientists have found other indications of global cooling. For one thing there has been a noticeable expansion of the great belt of dry, high-altitude polar winds —the so-called circumpolar vortex—that sweep from west to east around the top and bottom of the world.’

Another Ice Age? – TIME

Forty years later, Time Magazine blames the cold polar vortex on global warming

‘But not only does the cold spell not disprove climate change, it may well be that global warming could be making the occasional bout of extreme cold weather in the U.S. even more likely. Right now much of the U.S. is in the grip of a polar vortex, which is pretty much what it sounds like: a whirlwind of extremely cold, extremely dense air that forms near the poles.’

Polar Vortex: Climate Change Could Be the Cause of Record Cold Weather | TIME.com

To borrow from an item I wrote a few days before Christmas, as Zombie noted at PJM last year, the warnings for what industrialized man should do to fight global cooling are virtually identical to the warnings would-be “climate” “scientists” have given to fight global warming as well.

COMMENT:  And yet, the "crisis" of global warming is the accepted position of the Obama administration and the passionately held position of the trendies in journalism. 

And yes, it's true, journalists in the 1970s were writing about the possibility of another ice age.  We were all going to freeze.  Now we're all going to melt. 

The new ice age never happened.  We haven't had any global warming in more than 15 years.  Maybe we should take a hard look at what we call "science."

January 8, 2013