Let’s talk about some super duper “smart” people in Congress.

Actually, just person: the lovely Senator of Oklahoma, James Inhofe.

As he walked into Congress with a snowball: “In case we have forgotten, because we keep hearing that 2014 has been the warmest year on record, I ask the chair, you know what this is? It’s a snowball. And that’s just from outside here. So it’s very, very cold out.”

Oh, it’s cold Mr. Senator Inhofe, sir? Are you chilly in ole’ Washington, D.C.?

Just because certain parts of the world are experiencing average temperatures for particular seasons, DOES NOT mean climate change is not happening. Thank heavens for Senator Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island for his rebuttal to Inhofe: “You can believe NASA and you can believe what their satellites measure on the planet, or you can believe the Senator with the snowball. The United States Navy takes this very seriously, to the point where Admiral Locklear, who is the head of Pacific Command, has said that climate change is the biggest threat that we face in the Pacific … you can either believe the United States Navy or you can believe the Senator with the snowball … every major American scientific society has put itself on record, many of them a decade ago, that climate change is deadly real. They measure it, they see it, they know why it happens. The predictions correlate with what we see as they increasingly come true. And the fundamental principles, that is derived from carbon pollution, which comes from burning fossil fuels, are beyond legitimate dispute … so you can believe every single major American scientific society, or you can believe the Senator with the snowball.”

So who are you going to believe?

Don’t you dare even joke that you’re going to believe the Senator with the snowball. Why? Because climate change is a serious issue.

So maybe you’re wondering: why should I care about Global Warming if it isn’t really affecting me?

Well one day it could.

I’ll just leave you with these photos: