re: options
The article gbaikie links to is informally written, too much so to use as a valid source on its own. A better article would have had a lot more links in it, and I have read some of the source material referred to.
Still, it makes one good point:
OK, so one winter does not a climate make. It would be premature to claim an Ice Age is looming just because we have had one of our most brutal winters in decades.
But if environmentalists and environment reporters can run around shrieking about the manmade destruction of the natural order every time a robin shows up on Georgian Bay two weeks early, then it is at least fair game to use this winter's weather stories to wonder whether the alarmist are being a tad premature.
gbaikie's posting style is unfortunate, and tends to obscure any nuggets he actually digs up.