'Snowmaggedon'? Nope. Just the Opposite : Discovery News

The cold weather could be explained by the North Atlantic Oscillation, but the warm weather is part of a long-term warming trend.

Al Gore's Excellent Timing - Ronald Brownstein - Politics - The Atlantic

[Gore:] "Mother Nature is speaking very loudly right now."

If you can hear her over the rain or the eggs frying on the sidewalk, that is.

Freezing temperatures in parts of Iowa damage crops; Mason City sets record low | The Des Moines Register | DesMoinesRegister.com

Mason City set a record low at 26 degrees, the National Weather Service said, replacing 28 degrees on Sept. 15, 2007.

Hillaker said preliminary figures showed Onawa set a record with 30 degrees, two degrees cooler than the previous record of 32 degrees in 1916. Algona tied a 1916 record with 32 degrees.

A Discernible Human Influence: Stephen Schneider and Climate Change - Miller-McCune

“The big questions Steve posed and helped clarify remain today,” says Michael Mann, director of the Earth System Science Center at Penn State University.