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

by Elliot Smilowitz - 12/25/15 5:09 PM ET

Celebrity scientist Neil deGrasse Tyson on Friday issued a Christmas warning that climate change will soon rob Santa Claus of his home on the North Pole.

{mosads}Tyson, who considers himself agnostic but is often championed by atheists, wrote on Twitter that “the Arctic’s most famous resident” will be a victim of global warming.

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

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

Tyson riffed on other elements of Christmas in a series of Friday morning tweets.

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

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