Postcard from Minnesota: Far from drought, but is it a climate haven?
The West is drying and burning up. The Southwest is baking until it cracks. The South is sweltering, and the East is eyeing rising seas. So, to hide from climate change, Minnesota, tucked away in a northern nook of the country, might seem ideal.
One Harvard researcher even suggested “Climate-Proof Duluth” could be the perfect escape, with no oceans around the city to rise, plenty of cool weather, and all the fresh water one could want with enormous Lake Superior at its feet. Townsfolk talk of “climate refugees” moving there from southernly states.
But Minnesota is changing because of global warming. It is getting too much rain and not enough cold.
“Our state is becoming warmer and wetter,” says Katrina Kessler, head of the Minnesota Pollution Control
