Thank Al Gore for all this snow. Haw, haw, haw.... and the internet I'm typing this on.

Colbert takes on the biggest meme that the right has put out in years: the "it's snowing where I live so global warming can't be real".

Do they really know how idiotic they sound? It's like saying "People aren't starving in the world, I just ate a steak, so that's impossible". Or as Colbert points out, "because it's dark out, we can only conclude that the sun has been destroyed."

Like with one-year olds, "whatever has just happened is the only thing that's happening". With that in mind, Stephen Colbert checks in with the peek-a-boo-ologists: