These are the Dog Days of March. Ham Weather reports 6,895 records in the last week - some towns 30 to 45 degrees warmer than average; off-the-scale, freakishly warm. 13,393 daily records for heat since March 1 - 16 times more warm records than cold records. The scope, intensity and duration of this early heat wave are historic and unprecedented...

I’m going to tell you something that my Republican friends are loath to admit out loud: climate change is real...