Hands Up if you Believe in Global Warming

Because there aren’t any, you can’t even count the number of proven global warming victims on the fingers of one hand. Which is a terribly insensitive way to introduce a story about victims of local colding.

At least the players were warm

Sports fans who attended an NFL game a couple of months ago may now be booking time in various hospital editing suites:

The medical director at the Grossman Burn Center at Research Medical Center says 70% of patients referred for frostbite injuries suffered during the bitter cold in January are now being advised to schedule amputations.

Majority of them are Chiefs fans who attended the team’s frigid playoff game ...

It was the fourth-coldest game in NFL history and coldest in Chiefs franchise history.

HCA Midwest Health shared images of the hand of one fan who took his gloves off for just five minutes in order to put up a tent in the parking lot outside Arrowhead Stadium.

He won't be needing that glove again. Not all of it, anyway.

According to the report, the temperature at kickoff was -20C with a wind chill of -33C. Not exactly weather for outdoor activities.

Personal coldest sports-watching experience might have been a Collingwood game at the MCG in the mid-1990s. Frozen winds, horizontal rain, the whole Melbourne deal.

A friend in our group wandered away at one point. We thought he'd given up and gone home.

But then we spotted him several rows behind us, all warm and happy. He'd talked his way into a corporate box.