I realize that many will believe my casual dismissal of the big storm hitting the East Coast is a result of today's the temperature here locally on the Central Coast of California where it reached a balmy 75 degrees today.

However, I want to assure our New England readers that I feel your pain. It's supposed to rain a little tonight.

But seriously folks, it isn't like there's never been a blizzard hit New York and Boston before, right?

For Bill Nye, the Science Doofus, the blizzard is a sign of "climate change."

Wait there's more: Football + Blizzard (is it climate change?) Both stories connect to honesty @msnbc

— Bill Nye (@TheScienceGuy) January 26, 2015

Twitchy helpfully collected some responses to this. But you climate alarmists have got to be kidding me. Aren't you the ones always pointing out there's a difference between weather and climate. Then you act like a blizzard in New England in January is somehow out of the ordinary.

A blizzard. New England. January. As Shakespeare once said: "Givest thou me a break!"

Look on the bright side:

• It turns out that 2014 probably wasn't the hottest year on record. It turns out that there's things in science called "statistically significant" and "margin of error" that "scientists" asking for a sexy headline so they can get more funding mistakenly left out of their press releases.
• The world didn't end in 2000, despite the best predictions of PBS's "NOVA" back in 1986.

The conclusion, conveyed with great authority by several big-league climatologists from government and private research organizations, is terrible: by the year 2000, the atmosphere and weather will grow warmer by several degrees and life - animal, plant, human - will be threatened. The experts say that melting ice caps, flooded cities, droughts in the corn belt and famine in the third world could result if the earth's mean temperature rises by a mere two or three degrees.

• And, contra the UK's Independent, snowfalls are not really a "thing of the past."

However, the warming is so far manifesting itself more in winters which are less cold than in much hotter summers. According to Dr David Viner, a senior research scientist at the climatic research unit (CRU) of the University of East Anglia,within a few years winter snowfall will become "a very rare and exciting event".

"Children just aren't going to know what snow is," he said.

What a relief! New England area children will know what snow is. Hopefully they'll also quickly learn what "overreaction" and "fear-mongering" are too.