{"id":38317,"date":"2014-01-13T12:00:09","date_gmt":"2014-01-13T12:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=38317"},"modified":"2015-05-05T22:20:07","modified_gmt":"2015-05-05T21:20:07","slug":"polar-vortex-causes-hundreds-of-injuries-as-people-making-snide-remarks-about-climate-change-are-punched-in-face","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2014\/01\/polar-vortex-causes-hundreds-of-injuries-as-people-making-snide-remarks-about-climate-change-are-punched-in-face\/","title":{"rendered":"Polar Vortex Causes Hundreds of Injuries as People Making Snide Remarks about Climate Change Are Punched in Face"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/extreme-cold-010714.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-38318\" alt=\"extreme-cold-010714\" src=\"http:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/extreme-cold-010714-300x136.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"136\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/extreme-cold-010714-300x136.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/extreme-cold-010714.jpg 430w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><i>6 Jan 2013 &#8211; <\/i>The so-called polar vortex caused hundreds of injuries across the Midwest today, as people who said \u201cso much for global warming\u201d and similar comments were punched in the face.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities in several states said that residents who had made ignorant comments erroneously citing the brutally cold temperatures as proof that climate change did not exist were reporting a sharp increase in injuries to the face and head regions.<\/p>\n<p>In an emergency room in St. Paul, Harland Dorrinson, forty-one, was waiting to be treated for bruising to the facial area after he made a crack about how the below-freezing temperatures meant that climate-change activists were full of shit.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019d just finished saying it and <i>boom<\/i>, out of nowhere someone punched me in the face,\u201d he said. \u201cThis polar vortex is really dangerous.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The meteorology professor Davis Logsdon, of the University of Minnesota, issued a safety warning to residents of the states hammered by the historic low temperatures: \u201cIf you are living within the range of the polar vortex and you have something idiotic to say about climate change, do not leave your house.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>____________________________<\/p>\n<p><i>Andy Borowitz is a New York Times best-selling author and a comedian who has written for The New Yorker since 1998. In 2001, he created the Borowitz Report, a satirical news column that has millions of readers around the world, for which he won the first-ever National Press Club award for humor. The Borowitz Report was acquired by The New Yorker in 2012.<\/i><i><\/i><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/online\/blogs\/borowitzreport\/2014\/01\/polar-vortex-causes-hundreds-of-injuries-as-people-making-snide-remarks-about-climate-change-are-pun.html\" >Go to Original \u2013 newyorker.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Authorities in several states said that residents who had made ignorant comments erroneously citing the brutally cold temperatures as proof that climate change did not exist were reporting a sharp increase in injuries to the face and head regions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[213],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food-for-thought"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38317\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}