Wait, Thomas Friedman said something unbelievably stupid? I guess there’s a first for everything.

FRIEDMAN: To pick up on something that Heidi said, I actually don’t like to use the term “global warming.”  Because that sounds so cuddly.  To a Minnesota, Bob, that sounds like golf in February.  I much prefer the term “global wierding”, okay?  Because that’s actually what happens.  The hots get hotter.  The wets get wetter.  The dries get dryer.  And the more violent storms for the reasons Heidi outlined are most likely to become more severe. And that’s what we saw in Syria.  We saw a four-year drought, worst in Syria’s modern history, that preceded the revolution there and produced a million refugees that basically laid the predicate for that revolution.