Headlines I Can't Make Up: Historic Winter Due To Global Warming -- CBS News; Price Of Oil Slips 16 Cents, Due To Demand Destruction --

I can't make this stuff up.

Breitbart is reporting.

During the February 13 broadcast of CBS This Morning, host Charlie Rose and his guest turned to the topic of this year's harsh winter, calling the extreme cold an example of global warming. 

Guest Michio Kaku, a physics professor from New York City College--not a climatologist, but a physicist--claimed that the "wacky weather" could get "even wackier" and its all because of global warming. 

"What we're seeing is that the jet stream and the polar vortex are becoming unstable. Instability of historic proportions. We think it's because of the gradual heating up of the North Pole. The North Pole is melting," professor Kaku said. 

 "That excess heat generated by all this warm water is destabilizing this gigantic bucket of cold air... So that's the irony, that heating could cause gigantic storms of historic proportions," the goof explained. 

This was all because of global warming, Rose insisted.

The Los Angeles Times also had a story / op-ed piece on the same subject. The accompanying cartoon was very insulting to Christians and Jews (the cartoonist would not have had the courage to mention the Koran in the same context).

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Meanwhile Pablo Gorondi over at the AP writes that oil slips 16 cents due to demand destruction.

Oil prices slipped closer to $100 a barrel Friday as fresh U.S. economic data and higher-than-expected crude supplies pointed to weaker demand.

By early afternoon in Europe, benchmark U.S. crude for March delivery was down 16 cents to $100.19 a barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. On Thursday, the Nymex contract eased 2 cents to close at $100.35.

I guess the price of oil has recovered; it is only down 15 cents now, up a penny. For the math wizards, 15 cents / 100 dollars = 0.0015, which if I move the decimal the correct direction translates to 0.15%.