Annual mid-winter nonsense.

As I've said before; most doubts people have about the reality of global climate change stem from lackadaisical fact checking and misleading anecdotes. And the immortal mother of all of these false arguments is a simple canard that always emerges from its den around this time of year; how can there be global warming when it's cold outside?

Now, one would think this assumption should appear so obviously incorrect that only a moron would be taken in by it. But when you're buried under three feet of snow and have to warm up your car for a half hour before driving it and have to protect every inch of your body before going outside in broad daylight because a -30 degree wind chill will frost bite exposed flesh in minutes, you do tend to wonder exactly where all that warming is right now.

Peter Sinclair's Climate Crock of the Week tells us: