The "global warming" joke drinking game

It could be a batshit rightwing cartoon, could be a blog post, or a youtube clip, or even an op-ed piece from an otherwise perfectly respectable newspaper... it could be anything. But every time someone posts a joke from some other media that amounts to "lol how could there be global warming when my feet are cold?" everyone takes a drink.

I'll start.

http://media.townhall.com/Townhall/Car/b/Foden20090120-Frozen20090122014132.jpg

polar bear puppetry in right-wing comics

Football playoff commentators are diseased with this joke, btw. It's a shame the superbowl is in tampa, or there could be a serious bonus round. Actually, if it's 15 degrees in Tampa that day, and some wiseacre comes up with, "There sure ain't global warming around here!" we all have to chug a liter of Skol vodka.

I figure a drinking game is more fun than putting my own eyes out the next time I hear it.

A coupla SA goons even started a blog to record every one of these idiots cartoons they could find:

http://ifglobalwarmingisrealthenwhyisitcold.blogspot.com/

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_rpiegz3et3E/SWpR5BcZ8iI/AAAAAAAAACM/NpLhj4LsbiY/s1600-h/gw3.gif/

There's an answer to this. It's in the tropics, and in huge currents of air that come up from the tropics every year. Thing is, cold air is very dense, and warm air usually has a hard time displacing it -- it usually does the easy thing, rides up over the top of it, and cools in the upper atmosphere. But the warms are warmer lately, and those currents are super powerful, so they're not just happy with whipping up over the top of arctic air, they are actually moving it. Down into, like, Chicago. Last Friday I woke up and it was -17 degrees with a wind chill of 40 below. It's been colder (a long, long time ago), but what this tropical air did was buckle the jet stream, which does not happen much. It was warmer at the north pole that morning than it was in Chicago, by about 15 degrees. And it's because of really powerful warm air.

Oh, the thing that there's an answer to is "If Global Warming Is Real Then Why Is It Cold"

It's like, it doesn't take some masters degree in meteorology to understand what's happening to the weather. It can be explained to anyone. Why it isn't is the real mystery to me.

You should just get a big tattoo that says "climate =/= weather"

People don't know that, though, and it's frustrating. Like I say, if somebody would just break down a few basic weather scenarios for the general population, and maybe season it with a little 6th grade science, this whole debate would be over.

I feel like Americans as a whole are starting to kind of maybe a little bit understand that the weather is weird, and they don't know how or why except maybe that Bush can't be trusted, and ok whatever you say, big-brain science dudes. And I want to yell at Americans as a whole, because this isn't fucking hard, they've just been falling asleep in class.

i hear this ALL THE TIME, ugh.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flat_Earth_Society