Solar cycle 24 is about to start and cold weather trends like this winter is a harbinger of future cooling due to solar cycle activity. This winter was a prime example. The last time we had a winter this cold was 109 years ago. Everyone knowledgeable about this sort of thing are castigated and made fun of by the same people that warned us of global cooling. If your wondering what happened to global cooling just look up the Mount St. Helen's eruption. According to the Global Cooling crowd the Mount St. Helen's eruption should have put us into an Ice Age lasting decades. They were proven wrong and the only thing that happened were really pretty sun sets for a couple of years. The current scare the population into paying more tax disaster scam artist are made up of failed government officials and so called scientists drawing money from the government in an effort to prove there is Global Warming. Currently there is no evidence whatsoever of any global warming taking place. Here is a link to information on Solar cycle 24. Just watch the slow cooling effect caused by the approach of what is thought to be a record setting cycle.
http://www.solarcycle24.com/