How are socialists dealing with -42 degrees?

At -42 F (-41 C), Embarass, Minn. was the coldest spot in the lower 48 last night. I'd be embarassed, too.

The cold temps bring to mind the reason socialists changed "global warming" to "climate change". The former wasn't getting any traction when it gets cold, so they had to change in order to continue scaring the public.

CNN is running a commercial with a man standing on train tracks with a train coming on at full speed. The train, of course, is "climate change". It's hysteria on a high order, based on speculative climate models. The weather folks, by the way, can't predict local weather more than four days in advance, but we should believe the 100-year doomsday scenario.

Socialists and their media stooges have been waging a battle against capitalism and industry for 100 years now. Anthropogenic "climate change" is the latest battleground (after climate cooling, mass oil shortages, acid rain, Mad Cow, SARS, and bird flu). Lions and tigers and bears, oh my!

Jacques Strappe Chirac is talking about an EU "carbon tax" on U.S. imports. If that happens, we should place a "cold tax" on European imports. French wine will be left out in the cold.

AP:

Temperatures dropped below zero in Minnesota on Saturday morning and were expected to remain there until sometime Tuesday, the weather service said. Subzero temperatures blanketed the Minneapolis-St. Paul area for 63 straight hours — the longest stretch since 2004 — ending Monday afternoon.

In northern Minnesota, the temperature crashed to 42 below Monday morning at Embarrass, 38 below at Hallock and 30 below at International Falls, the weather service said.

At my house in Laguna Beach, Calif., it was a balmy 81 (27 C) today. Do the people living in the Upper Midwest and the Northeast know they don't have to live there?