Judging from this quip recently overheard in New York at the West 4th Street subway station, the Environmental Defense + Ad Council’s new Fight Global Warming ad campaign can’t start soon enough:

Girl: …I mean, who doesn’t like being warm? It’s not like they call it “Global Sweltering”! So who cares?

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