Heat wave!

We’re experiencing something of a bizarre heat wave, coming on the heels of a cold snap. So we’ve gone from highs of low 50s to mid 90s in only a few days (yet, ironically, some of my students still believe global warming is an evil conspiracy/hoax).
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I’m Miguel Centellas, a political science professor at Mount St. Mary’s University.

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The difference, too, is that this warm spell has felt like a just reward, a kind influence after a harsh winter and what has been, so far, a cold, slow spring. It is usually pretty hard to say just what we, as humans, really deserve. But there were a lot of us walking around this weekend, heads tipped back to catch the sun, thinking we deserve this.