Anecdotes about global warming are a waste of time- especially to confront the naysayers - because there will always be tales of record cold somewhere, with which to balance out the picture ... and in the end, almost everyone can believe in what serves their own agenda best.
Never mind that here on the left coast, we have already gone through an early Spring in Northern California, and the plum trees and daffodils which bloomed in mid-February are almost gone of color. Say what you will glaciers melting, it's still cold in Alaska. But with the famous Iditarod 1,150-mile dog-sled race starting up soon, they are actually having to truck in snow ! Horace is probably getting his team clipped and groomed so that they don't overheat ;-) but I find it more than amusing that this story is apparently true- that snow had to be trucked in to cushion the streets of Anchorage for the race's ceremonial start on Sunday. I wonder if any of the musher will be wearing shorts...
