But when science is the swim-trunked brat saying Minneapolis is America's most uncomfortable place to live, it’s a little demoralizing.

A new study looking at the impact of global warming found (among other things) that, temperature-wise, Minneapolis has it the worst out of the 25 continental U.S. cities examined. What constitutes “comfortable” is certainly different for Siberians and beach bums, but the study largely measured how much we use our heaters and air conditioners.

Along with other numbers and equations, lead science guy Ken Caldeira calculated each city’s “degree days” — when the temperature was above or below 65 degrees, thinking that any higher or lower people might flip on the A.C. or heater. As the Washington Post explains it, when Minneapolis thermometers hit 66 Fahrenheit it counted as one degree day. When it soars to 75 degrees for one day, it counts as 10 degree days. Got it?

Thanks to those cold-toed winters, Minneapolis easily had the most degree days, with 8,333 between 1981 and 2010. Chicago was the next highest with 7,181, compared to those most “comfortable” bastards in San Diego with 1,946. For a California sweep, Los Angeles and San Francisco rounded out the top three.

Besides looking at the past, Caldeira, an atmospheric scientist at Stanford University, made projections for how global warming might shake things up between 2080 and 2099 — if carbon emissions aren’t curbed, that is. While most of the bottom five cities, including Chicago and Detroit, might get more use out of their fireplaces than air conditioners, ultra-sweaty Miami joins the bunch with a speculative uptick in cooling degree days.

The good news for us is that our grandbabies’ babies won’t have to crank the futuristic space heater as hard, as Minneapolis will feel more like present-day Chicago by the end of the century.

The bad news? By this study’s standards, Minneapolis will still be the most uncomfortable place to live.