The Super Bowl has always been held in warm-weather cities, like New Orleans, Tampa or San Diego, or in the controlled climate of a dome, where a roof shields fans from the weather outside.

WSJ: Maybe This Wasn't a Super Idea After All

According to Prof Roger Pielke Jnr, from the University of Colorado, there are big dangers in claiming that one event, be it US weather records or wildfires in Australia, are clear evidence of human-induced climate change.

BBC: Science & Environment

The flatline argument happens to be popular because it is occurring now, and few people outside of Aspie climate guys like me can remember the weather more than a year or two back.

FORBES: Global Warming Flatliners

Dissenting Commissioner Troy Paredes notes the potential confusion that could result from having firms speculate on the "physical effects of climate change, such as effects on the severity of weather (for example, floods or hurricanes), sea levels, the arability of farmland, and water availability and quality" and harms to their reputation because of the public perception of data relating to its greenhouse gas emissions.

FORBES: The SEC, Global Warming and The First Amendment

But they do effectively have to acknowledge that it exists, or face the consequences of liability if they are hurt by bad weather that a litigator can somehow link to climate change.

FORBES: The SEC, Global Warming and The First Amendment