RECORD BREAKING COLD IN THE MIDWESTERN USA

CNN/AP: Nation's 'Icebox' hits record 40 below zero

The temperature in International Falls, Minnesota, fell to a record 40 below zero Monday, just a few days after the northern Minnesota town won a federal trademark making it officially the "Icebox of the Nation."

It was so cold that resident Nick McDougall couldn't even get his car trunk lid to close after he got out his charger to kick-start his dead battery. By late morning, the temperature had risen all the way to 18 -- below zero.

"This is about as cold as it gets, this is bad. There's no wind -- it's just cold," said McDougall, 48, a worker at The Fisherman, a convenience store and gas station in the town on the Canadian border. "People just don't go out, unless you have to go to work."

Residents of the area use electric engine block heaters to keep their cars from freezing.

"You plug in your car, for sure, and you put the car in the garage if you can," McDougall said. His garage is full of other things, so he had to park outside -- a "big mistake."

The previous record low in International Falls was 37 below, set in 1967, said meteorologist Mike Stewart at the weather service in Duluth. The cold was expected, he said: "When the winds finally died off and the skies cleared off, it just dropped."

The temperature also fell to 40 below in Embarrass, 80 miles southeast of International Falls. That's just one degree above the all-time record in Minneapolis, 250 miles to the south, that was set in January 1888, the weather service said.

LET'S GET THAT STRAIGHT: (a) - The temperature in International Falls, Minnesota, fell to a record 40 below zero Monday... The previous record low in International Falls was 37 below, set in 1967 ;(b) - That's just one degree above the all-time record in Minneapolis, 250 miles to the south, that was set in January 1888, the weather service said.

Er um... it's COLDER than EVER breaking ALL-TIME records set five decades ago. Five decades during which time the atmosphere has had TONS AND AND TONS AND TONS MORE CO2 put in it. YET IT'S COLDER. Colder than EVER in the Midwest USA, in China, all over Central Asia - and they're having records snows in Europe.

This is not the stuff global warming catastrophes are made of. WHAT COULD THIS MEAN!? Simple:

• AGW = BS.
• AL GORE: STFU.

DON'T BE HOODWINKED INTO SUPPORTING HIGHER TAXES OR MORE REGULATIONS TO REDUCE CO2 OR SLOW "MAN-MADE GLOBAL WARMING" - BECAUSE THERE IS NONE.

IOW: DON'T VOTE DEMOCRAT.