Minnesota Warming

Sometime in the late 1970s I believe, there was a Sears Die Hard battery commercial which featured a car in the middle of a frozen lake in International Falls, MN. It wasn't even in the winter; it was in April. See, that's how long it stays cold in International Falls, near the Minnesota/Canada border. The point of the spot was that you can leave a Sears Die Hard battery in a parked car all winter long in International Falls, and it will still fire up just before the ice melts.

Today, International Falls broke its record high temperature. By 20 degrees! It reached 79 today. Yes, 79 degrees, in the winter, in International Falls.

That's like 33 degrees in August...in Hell.

I suppose there still is some ice on the lakes in IF, but I wouldn't walk on it, let alone hop in a car to see if the battery has lasted the winter.

Now, to the Global Warming deniers, of the human-aided kind (AGW) or otherwise, I won't be foolish enough to commit the same fallacy that many deniers do when they say, "Where's your global warming now?" whenever we get a big snowfall or cold spell.

But I will say this: "Why so quiet, now?"