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Mira

(22,380 posts)
Mon Jan 6, 2014, 03:31 PM Jan 2014

Polar Vortex Causes Injuries as People Making Snide Remarks About Climate Change Are Punched in face

Polar Vortex Causes Hundreds of Injuries as People Making Snide Remarks About Climate Change Are Punched in the Face
(Borowitz)
(I would have put Borowitz on the header but it did not fit)

MINNEAPOLIS (The Borowitz Report)—The so-called polar vortex caused hundreds of injuries across the Midwest today, as people who said “so much for global warming” and similar comments were punched in the face.
Authorities in several states said that residents who had made ignorant comments erroneously citing the brutally cold temperatures as proof that climate change did not exist were reporting a sharp increase in injuries to the face and head regions.
In an emergency room in St. Paul, Harland Dorrinson, forty-one, was waiting to be treated for bruising to the facial area after he made a crack about how the below-freezing temperatures meant that climate-change activists were full of shit.
“I’d just finished saying it and boom, out of nowhere someone punched me in the face,” he said. “This polar vortex is really dangerous.”
The meteorology professor Davis Logsdon, of the University of Minnesota, issued a safety warning to residents of the states hammered by the historic low temperatures: “If you are living within the range of the polar vortex and you have something idiotic to say about climate change, do not leave your house.”




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Polar Vortex Causes Injuries as People Making Snide Remarks About Climate Change Are Punched in face (Original Post) Mira Jan 2014 OP
Haha! geardaddy Jan 2014 #1
Real question here: Is the "Polar Vortex" any different than the usual jet stream Common Sense Party Jan 2014 #2
You could say yes and no. freethought Jan 2014 #4
Now that is satire keepin it real KeepItReal Jan 2014 #3
So I guess Shankapotomus Jan 2014 #5

Common Sense Party

(14,139 posts)
2. Real question here: Is the "Polar Vortex" any different than the usual jet stream
Mon Jan 6, 2014, 03:38 PM
Jan 2014

bringing cold temperatures down from the North?

If so, what is the difference?

freethought

(2,457 posts)
4. You could say yes and no.
Mon Jan 6, 2014, 07:57 PM
Jan 2014

The jet stream isn't always straight west to east. As I read somewhere it actually writhes and coils like a snake. In the past that writhing has from time to time produced big loops which dip southward bringing seriously cold air down from the arctic putting the midwest in particular in some serious deep freezes. It's happened before, from what I have read it's been nearly 40 years since the country has seen a polar vortex even close this one. There was one in the early 90s but it wasn't as big or as bad. What seems to make this one different is its size and severity and we'll also have to see how long this one lasts. Let's face low temps in the -30s with wind chills that dip into nearly -70! That is LETHAL COLD!

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