{"id":12488,"date":"2014-01-09T16:07:49","date_gmt":"2014-01-09T23:07:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/climate-change\/white-house-polar-vortex-cold-likely-linked-to-manmade-climate-change\/"},"modified":"2014-01-09T16:41:27","modified_gmt":"2014-01-09T23:41:27","slug":"white-house-polar-vortex-cold-likely-linked-to-manmade-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/climate-change\/white-house-polar-vortex-cold-likely-linked-to-manmade-climate-change\/","title":{"rendered":"White House: \u2018Polar vortex\u2019 cold likely linked to manmade climate change"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 320px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/article\/white-house-polar-vortex-cold-likely-linked-to-manmade-climate-change\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"The extreme cold seen in Chicago and many other North American cities may be attributed to global warming according to White House officials.\" alt=\"The extreme cold seen in Chicago and many other North American cities may be attributed to global warming according to White House officials.\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn2-b.examiner.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/mobile_rss\/hash\/84\/b8\/84b8948c47325e0e52060dd075ef81da.jpg?itok=ON7K_c0J\" width=\"320\" height=\"213\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The extreme cold seen in Chicago and many other North American cities may be attributed to global warming according to White House officials. (Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Amid the record-setting cold being seen across much of the United States, the White House dispatched one of its top science officials to try to convince Americans that\u00a0global warming\u00a0is occurring and may in fact be responsible for the cold.<\/p>\n<p>In\u00a0a video published to the White House\u2019s website and YouTube yesterday, Dr. John Holdren, President\u00a0Barack Obama\u2019s science advisor says, \u201cIf you\u2019ve been hearing that extreme cold spells, like the one we\u2019re having in the United States now, disproves global warming, don\u2019t believe it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Scientists however have been struggling to explain the lack of \u2018extreme weather\u2019 or increasing temperatures. \u00a0Alarmists seem to want to tie any type of event to manmade climate change now.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/article\/white-house-polar-vortex-cold-likely-linked-to-manmade-climate-change\" target=\"_blank\">Read the rest of this story and watch the video on Examiner.com<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amid the record-setting cold being seen across much of the United States, the White House dispatched one of its top science officials to try to convince Americans that\u00a0global warming\u00a0is occurring and may in fact be responsible for the cold. In\u00a0a video published to the White House\u2019s website and YouTube yesterday, Dr. John Holdren, President\u00a0Barack Obama\u2019s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/climate-change\/white-house-polar-vortex-cold-likely-linked-to-manmade-climate-change\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">White House: \u2018Polar vortex\u2019 cold likely linked to manmade climate change<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,540],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12488"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12488"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12489,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12488\/revisions\/12489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}