Sure, it's cheap and it's easy (it is a Drudge link) but it's darn funny.

Today was the coldest day ever in Gore's hometown as he's screeching about how we need to give him another $hundred millions pass the climate bill or WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE!!!11!!!!!!1!

While I love pointing and laughing, it's a stupid metric. First, our records don't go back very far. And most importantly, they haven't really been all that accurate for much longer than maybe 30-40 years.
The previous low was 1877, I'm gonna assume their tech wasn't all that great so the margin of error on their thermometers was probably pretty high. I mean, they didn't have computers and they certainly couldn't measure in thousandths of inches so it could have been colder or warmer.

Ditto arctic ice. Just because there's a real lot compared to our records, that's only the last 30 or so years since we have had accurate enough satellites to measure it.
I don't think Admiral Peary brought a yard stick to measure the ice at the North Pole in 1906.
The ice could have been 100 feet lower or higher in 1850 and only the polar bears would know.

Wait,no they wouldn't, they hate the freaking cold too. They do a walking hibernation as they stroll around mostly asleep during the winter.
That must be kinda weird, watching a polar bear sleepwalk on by.

I bet that's where the old wive's tale came from, it's very dangerous to wake a sleep-walking polar bear.

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