Global Warming proponents discover that there is still some snow and ice in the Arctic.

It took 2½ years for polar explorers Lonnie Dupre and Eric Larsen to plan their trek across the Arctic Ocean.

But once launched, it took only three weeks for it to fall apart.

Amid a stretch of extraordinarily heavy snowfall, strong winds and broken and shifting ice, the two men from Grand Marais, Minn., who had hoped to become the first adventurers to cross the Arctic Ocean in summer, abandoned their expedition Thursday after advancing only 45 miles in 24 days.

Conditions were so treacherous, in fact, that the men, who had hoped to make the crossing to call attention to global warming and the receding polar ice cap, couldn't be picked up and airlifted out by helicopter until Friday.

When I plan my vacations, I try to travel based on weather reports and historical trends as opposed to weather theories. That being said it had never been 47 degrees on a late May afternoon in Boston as it was last week. I guess we're all losers.

As they say in Yiddish, "Der mensch trakht un Gott lahkht" - "Man plans and God laughs".