1 We'll just have to ask Horseface. I'm sure it's related to ketchup somehow; as in, "we need to ketchup with the warming figures."

2 Just as record blizzards are presented as signs of global warming. That logic still escapes me.

3 I hear that Bill. The argument was made by a climatologist named Judah Cohen a while back and he's been rather the model for those crazy claims.

The argument Cohen made was that a warmer world meant a collapse of the polar vortex, bringing cold air southward. But the vortex collapses all the time, usually over El Nino conditions. When that happens warmer water moves up into places like the Barentz and Kara seas and that breaks up the circumpolar current. The whole thing is driven by El Nino and breaks up the vortex, which has nothing to do with warming from carbon dioxide. It's just another sneaky trick to explain why it's cold. In fact, Cohen wrote an essay entitled "It's cold because it's hot". Makes zero sense.

He also argues that the Himalayas block cold air from the Arctic and thus southern Asia gets very hot at the same time. In that way he can explain major heat waves in India or whatnot when North America and Europe are freezing.

But of course none of this applies to the Antarctic. His whole theory is shot to hell by Antarctic conditions.

I know you know that already Bill but am speaking for any casual reader (if we have any at all anymore.)

Dana, I can't say I disagree about Captain America, who served in Vietnam in case you missed it.

4 Yeah, the S.O.B. served in Vietnam and also volleyed there. And messed around with Hanoi Jane there too, right?

To be accurate, he served on Swift Boats, and I seem to remember that at least one of his Commanding Officers said he needed to be watched constantly.