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<blockquote data-quote="Sportello" data-source="post: 1454173" data-attributes="member: 55299"><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2014/11/18/congresswoman-vicky-hartzler-wonders-why-its-so-cold-if-global-warming-exists-heres-the-answer/" target="_blank">http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2014/11/18/congresswoman-vicky-hartzler-wonders-why-its-so-cold-if-global-warming-exists-heres-the-answer/</a>It is that time of year when the weather gets cold — even unexpectedly cold — and online humorists and armchair scientists rise up as one to ask a question: &quot;<a href="https://twitter.com/search?friend=realtime&amp;q=what%20happened%20to%20global%20warming&amp;src=typd" target="_blank">What happened to &#039;global warming&#039;</a>???&quot; It&#039;s a good gag, see, because it&#039;s cold and global warming implies that it will be warm. If you don&#039;t get it, please e-mail me and I will explain further.&nbsp;With the current cold snap that&#039;s blanketing the country, even a member of Congress couldn&#039;t resist.&nbsp;There are two options for what Hartzler, a Republican who represents Missouri&#039;s 4th District, hopes to accomplish here. The first is that she&#039;s making a joke about a serious environmental issue that has scientists around the world concerned about how mankind will fare under warmer conditions. We assume a member of Congress wouldn&#039;t make such a joke.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Sportello, post: 1454173, member: 55299"] [url]http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2014/11/18/congresswoman-vicky-hartzler-wonders-why-its-so-cold-if-global-warming-exists-heres-the-answer/[/url] [I]It is that time of year when the weather gets cold — even unexpectedly cold — and online humorists and armchair scientists rise up as one to ask a question: "[URL='https://twitter.com/search?friend=realtime&q=what%20happened%20to%20global%20warming&src=typd']What happened to 'global warming'[/URL]???" It's a good gag, see, because it's cold and global warming implies that it will be warm. If you don't get it, please e-mail me and I will explain further. With the current cold snap that's blanketing the country, even a member of Congress couldn't resist. There are two options for what Hartzler, a Republican who represents Missouri's 4th District, hopes to accomplish here. The first is that she's making a joke about a serious environmental issue that has scientists around the world concerned about how mankind will fare under warmer conditions. We assume a member of Congress wouldn't make such a joke.[/I] [/QUOTE]

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