In case you missed it--Deke Arndt: You bad, weather angry? Also, Seth Borenstein suggests that global warming caused "A European winter cold snap that killed more than 800 people"?

2012 another record-setter, fits climate forecasts

"We've had two years now of some angry events," said Deke Arndt, U.S. National Climatic Data Center monitoring chief. "I'm hoping that 2013 is really boring."
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There were other weather extremes no one predicted: A European winter cold snap that killed more than 800 people.