Neil deGrasse Tyson: Santa’s North Pole home will be a victim of climate change

All this talk about Polar Bears suffering with Global Warming — nobody thinks about Santa, the Arctic’s most famous resident

— Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) December 25, 2015

Since the Northern Arctic is just ocean, Santa’s North Pole workshop has only ever existed on a floating sheet of ice.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) December 25, 2015

As Earth warms, and Arctic ice melts, Santa will lose his habitat too. Soon we’ll see photos of him clutched to an ice floe.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) December 25, 2015

Santa is pale because he’s in the middle of six months of darkness on Earth’s North Pole. And he delivers gifts only at night

— Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) December 25, 2015

Never understood why an overweight Arctic toymaker delivers Christmas gifts rather than representations of the Three Wise Men

— Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) December 25, 2015

If people left carrots, celery, & hot tea for Santa on the table rather than milk & cookies, I bet he’d be much, much thinner

— Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) December 25, 2015

Male & female Reindeer grow antlers, but males lose them in winter. All Santa’s reindeer, Rudolph too, are therefore female.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) December 25, 2015

FYI: By the end of the Twelve Days of Christmas song, your home is crammed with 23 flying Birds and 50 hyperactive Humans.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) December 25, 2015