Global Warming? Read this, and tell me you don't believe:

I think global warming is real. And I'm not talking about the hot summers in North Texas. Our summers are always hot. I'm talking about the lack of winter we had last year. Remember those big ass grass fires? It wasn't cold weather that allowed that to happen. The average daily high/low temperature in November were 72/48, where the normals are 65/45.

December in '05 was 60/36 (with only 9 days with lows below freezing) degrees. The average average dailly high/low temp in December is 56/30 (with almost every day's low averaging below freezing or right at freezing.) That's pretty dramatic.

January '06 was even worse, with the average high/low at 68/41 (with only ONE night's low below freezing, at 30 degrees.) The average high/low for January is 54/34 (again, most nights right at or below freezing.) That's incredibly dramatic. That's a 14 degree difference.

For those of you who have ever taken a statistics class, you know what the implications of a divergence this large are. One or two day-long anomalies like that are going to happen. But consistency over three months time? That not anomalous. That's a trend, and it scares me. This is why I'm not having kids. Well, this, and North Korea.

I also believe that the prevailing weather patters are cyclical. But global warming definitely has been giving the cycle a push.