Polar Vortex In 1899? Impossible, Surely?
By Paul Homewood
John Holdren would like us to believe that cold winters are caused by global warming. This paper reminds us that one of the coldest spells on record hit the East Coast in February 1899.
http://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/pdf/10.1175/1520-0434%281988%29003%3C0305%3ATGAOAE%3E2.0.CO%3B2
The paper concludes:
In conclusion, the February 1899 outbreak was unique in its capacity to chill and bury a large section of the nation. Therefore, whenever very cold and snowy conditions return to the United States and reports begin to circulate that the present weather is “the worst”, “coldest” or “snowiest”, forecasters and weather observers can always refer to February 1899 as a benchmark with which to compare similar events.
Unfortunately, tabloid climatologists no longer bother to do things like this. It’s far too easy, and profitable, to blame it all on CO2.
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NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT 
I recall Hubert Lamb’s writing about the polar vortex. That was before he founded the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia (CRU at UEA).
That was probably also why he was disappointed with his colleagues who jumped on the climate change bandwagon.
I believe that Lamb was aware that these periodic outbreaks of Arctic air masses as well as other periodic natural events could be mistaken for climate change.
-2 F with blizzard like conditions in Florida were certainly a very rare event!
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the major player as to be the sun and sunspots solar activity as been decreasing since 2009 and less uv light from the sun although only slightly lowers the heat budget from sun to earth its enough to effect earths atmosphere haltering the path of the jetstream in the northern hemesphere causing a southern direction of the jet below the british isles allowing cold arctic air to push further south over the uk and europe and the usa weve seen what can happen here in the uk when these conditions manifest themselfs 2009 and 2010record breaking winters 2012 year with out a summer coldest wettest summer ever recorded 2013 coldestmarch and spring ever recorded even snow in may winter 2013 to 2014 wetest windiest on record at the same time across the atlantic the usa was having one of its coldest snowyest winters ever recorded