Dan Calabrese

ORLANDO – I realize I’m not getting any sympathy from my friends in places like Minneapolis or Detroit, but dude, the high here yesterday was 42.

42!

Florida has fall colors this year.

Yep. Florida.

Last night, as I rode my bike from the ESPN Zone (only place to see the Vikings’ horrible performance against the Giants) to the resort, the temperature was 27. It could have snowed!

It’s not even winter yet.

Remember all that talk from the global warmists about how 2010 was the hottest year on record or some such thing? They should have waited until after December to say that. Does below-freezing weather in Florida count toward the average?

Oh, and what about the argument that weather isn’t climate, which they always mention whenever it’s cold out, but not when it’s hot? (Then it’s “See? See?”)

I am a global warming skeptic. I’ve explained why any number of times in this space, perhaps most definitively here. And while even a week of cold days in Florida doesn’t disprove global warming with any certainty, it does suggest to me that the people who want to put America’s entire industrial economy under the control of the United Nations to stop this so-called problem are going to have to do a much better job of a) demonstrating there’s really a problem; b) demonstrating the problem is serious enough to necessitate any action whatsoever; and c) demonstrating their proposed “solution” (aka the economic policies they already favored anyway) isn’t worse than the supposed problem.

They sure as hell haven’t convinced me. And I’m going to need my gloves again today.

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