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1321: Cold

2014-01-25T08:47:01Z

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{{comic
| number = 1321
| date = January 24, 2014
| title = Cold
| image = cold.png
| titletext = 'You see the same pattern all over. Take Detroit--' 'Hold on. Why do you know all these statistics offhand?' 'Oh, um, no idea. I definitely spend my evenings hanging out with friends, and not curating a REALLY NEAT database of temperature statistics. Because, pshh, who would want to do that, right? Also, snowfall records.'
}}

==Explanation==
{{incomplete| needs some textual editing, the title text joke has been in many xkcd comics, need to be referred to}}

The comics reacts to simplified view of {{w|global warming}} by amateurs, including media. Phenomena like {{w|Polar vortex}} or even random changes are taken as example or counter-example of global warming. In short, some people fail to understand the difference between climate and weather. If you want real proof for or against global warming, you need to look at global (not local) and long-term (not short-term) temperature changes.

For non US citizen: 0 °F (Fahrenheit) is -17.8 °C (Celsius), which is ''really fucking cold''. The city {{w|St. Louis}} is roughly at the same {{w|latitude}} as {{w|Lisbon}} (Portugal) or {{w|Beijing}} (China). But at Lisbon those low temperatures never do happen because of the {{w|Gulf Stream}}. If the Gulf Stream stops, which could happen caused by small changes in the global climate, the temperatures may drop at that regions.

The only dispute on global warming is, are the humans the main factor on this changes or is it just a natural change like it did happen in much higher levels in the past. The vast majority of scientists agree that man-made global warming is currently happening.

Title text suggest the reason WHY this occurs: getting the knowledge needed to actually know something about global warming is time-consuming and would be the kind of stuff only a real nerd would do. Normal people would rather hang out with friends, or at least spend their time with some more fun nerd activity, like playing computer games.

=== Previous comics referring global warming ===
* [[164: Playing Devil's Advocate to Win]]
* [[887: Future Timeline]] (partially)
* [[1225: Ice Sheets]] (title text only)

==Transcript==
:[It's cold, and Cueball and Black Hat are walking wearing knit caps. Cueball is shivering.]
:Cueball: It's '''''brutal''''' out. So much for global warming, huh?
:Black Hat: ''*sigh*'' This used to happen all the time.
:Cueball: What?

:[Shows a graph relating the number of days with lows below zero fahrenheit by year since 1970.]
:Black Hat (off-screen): You're from St. Louis, right?
:Black Hat: On average, it used to get below 0°F there a handful of days per year.
:Black Hat: But you haven't had a day like that since the nineties.

:[Black Hat has stopped walking.]
:Black Hat: Then, in 2014, when the first polar vortex hit, it dipped below zero for two days. And everyone freaked out.

:[They continue walking.]
:Black Hat: Because what used to be normal; now feels too cold.
:Cueball: It ''is'' too cold!

:The Future:
:[Cueball is pointing at a patch of ice.]
:Cueball: Look at this—'''''ice!''''' In '''''St. Louis!''''' So much for global warming.
:Off-screen: *sigh*

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