Even the weather is insulting him

You know how some vacations are doomed from the start? U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is probably going to be feeling that way shortly.

Ban arrives in Norway today for a three-day tour of Svalbard, where any remnant of summer vanished as a storm brought howling winds and snow (it's now snowed every month this year). So after getting insulted by Norway's deputy U.N. ambassador and having to deal with the awkwardness and apologies that no doubt will be in abundance, Mother Nature is giving him the cold shoulder.

He's up here as part of his campaign to fight climate change, which means he probably can't even complain about it being cold. The global warming skeptics are already going to love this, arguing that if warming actually is happening it's gotta be a good thing in places like this. And it's not hard to imagine their glee if some camera picks up snark from Ban about the weather.