Local weather forecaster tonite said we were heading into a below-normal cool week, and that we hadn’t had below-normal temperatures since last year. No connecting of the dots as to why that might be.

I am often befuddled that so many people can see Jesus’ image in burnt toast but can’t see Hell’s image in the various hockey stick graphs.

I completely agree that there needs to be more talk about climate change on the local level. I think it’s such a shame that moose are basically doomed here, especially since there was just recently talk about reintroducing caribou.

And it’s not just Moose that climate change is going to push out of Minnesota. A couple of years ago, Fisheries & Wildlife students from the University of Minnesota put on a very detailed symposium on how climate change is expected to affect Minnesota ecosystems. We are going to lose a whole mess of species and probably a whole biome.

I just wish people would pay as much attention to these issues as they do to Lily the Black Bear.

It’s already a full time job trying to make outsiders feel unwelcome.

As a fly fisher, I wonder how long the famous coldwater rivers of northern Michigan like the Au Sable, Manistee, and others will stay coldwater streams; will they go from trout to bass & walleye in this century? Of course, we already killed off the native grayling in the Au Sable & other rivers – remnants of the Ice Age – with habitat destruction due to logging & replaced those with introduced European brown trout.