You'd think these educated types would have heard of it.
Instead, these crazy Global Warming people make this stuff up as they go, only to have to correct themselves later once the hysteria they're taking wears off:
I asked a lib once upon a time: “Is global warming worse in the summer or winter?”
I was quite amazed first that he answered “Summer” without pause or awareness of the sarcasm in the question, but was more amazed he spent the next 10 minutes explaining it was worse in Summer because it is hotter.