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Every edition is assembled by TIME editors rather than generated automatically.  by [Eliana Dockterman](https://time.com/author/eliana-dockterman/)  ## Eliana Dockterman Correspondent Feb 15, 2015 10:49 PM UTC  by [Eliana Dockterman](https://time.com/author/eliana-dockterman/)  ## Eliana Dockterman Correspondent Feb 15, 2015 10:49 PM UTC _Wheel of Fortune_ host Pat Sajak [caught heat last year](http://time.com/108565/wheel-of-fortune-pat-sajak-climate-change-tweet/) for tweeting “I now believe global warming alarmists are unpatriotic racists knowingly misleading for their own ends.” But the game show presenter apparently couldn’t leave climate change well enough alone. On Sunday, Sajak tweeted: > [](https://twitter.com/patsajak/status/567078901676277760) It’s not quite clear what Sajak’s point is, but he appears to be noting the seeming contradiction in freezing cold weather as the climate warms. As any scientist will tell you, cold snaps do not change the overall trajectory of our warming planet. While weather is what changes in the atmosphere day-to-day, climate is how the atmosphere behaves over a longer period of time. So even if it feels cold today, the National Climate Report [shows](http://nca2014.globalchange.gov/report) that the first decade of this century was the hottest ever. A large majority of scientists agree the changes in our climate are man-made, caused by heat-trapping greenhouse gases. Whether Sajak doesn’t actually understand the difference between weather and climate is a matter of conjecture. He has [said before](http://www.cnn.com/2014/05/21/showbiz/celebrity-news-gossip/pat-sajak-global-warming-tweet/) that sometimes he designs his tweets to “get a rise out of people.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3710579/pat-sajak-wheel-of-fortune-climate-change/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3710579/pat-sajak-wheel-of-fortune-climate-change/"},"headline":"Wheel of Fortune Host Tweets About Climate Change Again","datePublished":"2015-02-15T22:49:19.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:16:54.171Z","description":"Pat Sajak didn't learn his lesson last time","url":"https://time.com/3710579/pat-sajak-wheel-of-fortune-climate-change/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Internet"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Eliana Dockterman","jobTitle":"Correspondent","url":"https://time.com/author/eliana-dockterman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3710579/pat-sajak-wheel-of-fortune-climate-change/","name":"Wheel of Fortune Host Tweets About Climate Change Again"}}]}] ```