Global Warming Conference Postponed Due to Snow

Officials for the International Organization for Global Warming announced yesterday that their scheduled conference in Oslo, Norway has been cancelled due to an unexpected blizzard, which swept in from the North Atlantic and paralyzed much of the Scandinavian coast.

"That a blizzard of this magnitude could catch us totally by surprise is yet another sign that Earth's temperature is on the rise," announced Torvald Van Ecken, spokesperson for the fictitious organization. "When the world's most powerful computers and top scientists can't predict a simple blizzard is further proof that our climate is becoming increasingly unstable and unpredictable, which is the first sign of global warming."

"Everyone knows that global warming makes long-term weather prediction impossible," added Marcia Green, one of over a hundred climatologists paid for by the organization. "That's why we must reduce our carbon footprint now, before it's too late, and people move on to another issue."

Conference officials, concerned the heavy snow and record cold will slow efforts to raise awareness for global warming, urged followers not to panic.

"The Earth is still warming. Doomsday is still coming, and it's still cool to drive hybrids" added Van Ecken.

Despite the best efforts of organization officials, many global warming advocates were left disillusioned by the announcement that the conference was delayed.

"Postponing the conference is like postponing global warming itself!" said Nancy Sternwright, an environmental activist who made the trek from Massachusetts to Oslo in a vegetable oil powered pontoon made entirely out of plant fibers. "I mean, what am I supposed to tell my kids? That the Earth may not be a hellish inferno by the time they graduate college?"

Other global warming advocates, concerned that the Earth is not heating up fast enough for average people to notice, have criticized organization officials for not going ahead with the conference.