I never understood the conflict beyond the idea that Leif Erikson had beat Columbus by a few centuries. The "discovery" was the Europeans discovering a new part of the globe to that point unseen, I didn't even know third graders to not understand that our written historical context has a European base. To me that whole argument is apologist gobbledygook based on the nonsense that the natives were peace loving earth tenders before the evil swam ashore and that Columbus and his ilk were genocidal maniacs.

As for the temp, I'd think we've set the cause of global warming back a century or two. I don't ever remember frost in August and I'm over 50. This has been the chilliest summer I've witnessed. I like it that way lol, but it's weird.