It's a warmist rule: When speaking to an audience in (insert location here), you must claim that (insert location here) is "Ground Zero for Global Warming"

Why Minnesota is "high impact" for climate change | Minnesota Public Radio

Minnesota near ground zero? Greatest warming signal occurring in center of continents...less near oceans
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Minnesota seems to be near the epicenter of some of the greatest observed warming in North America.
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-Inuit peoples needed to add dragonflies & robins to their language because they had never seen them before!

Flashback: Settled science: Every place is allegedly "Climate change's ground zero"

Flashback: Oops: NY Times warmist Nick Kristof holds up that long-debunked "no Eskimo word for robin" story as evidence that CO2 is overheating the planet

s it turns out, there are plenty of Eskimo words for robin that have existed for a long time and in languages that are spread among bands of Inuit all across the North American Arctic—and it is all plain to see with only a few clicks of the mouse along the information superhighway of the internet.