Seconded. I believe that this is the real problem. For all the stupid observations made in this thread, (sorry) it doesn't really matter if the winters stay cold or the summers stay hot. If you want my anecdote, Michigan almost beat the all-time record for annual snowfall in late November-December. As normal as that may seem, normally we aren't close to it until late January. What scares me more than what the television and everyone in this thread seems to be focusing on is the end of seasons. It's hardly scientific either, but I remember celebrating my sister's birthdays in April a few years ago and it would be snowing out. It wasn't even normal then before the mass hysteria.
And a couple years ago it got really warm like it was supposed to when spring starts, but then it got cold, and nearly frosted over the plants again. We had freezing rain I think. Though they have a different expectation for winter, it happened in California too, and that made citrus expensive. The seasons should be like clockwork and they haven't lately here.