You haven't migrated south enough Oldschoolcuda, of course, if I go much further south, I will have to polish up on my spanish.
In the 80's it snowed in San Antonio, Matamoras/Brownsville <-{Mexican border town} and here on GA/FL border. The TV news play Simon & Garfunkel's 'Slip sliding away' as people went out in San Antonio, and drove like normal. They ended up going sideways in suburbans' doing 70 and killing/injuring each other on the road.
I am not sure why people jab at global warming because of the cold in the winter time-I thought I read that the weather is supposed to be more extreme with global warming. If I understand correctly, there is allot less ice/snow in the poles and places like Alaska.
Many have disproved that the global warming is man-made after the political agenda movement. I believe our weather patterns are going to change gradually, slowly, not tremendously, momentarily.
Frank, I still think it happens. Centuries ago they once grew grapes in England-big weather shift.
The Great Global Warming Swindle is a polemical[1] documentary film that suggests that the scientific opinion on climate change is influenced by funding and political factors, and questions whether scientific consensus on anthropogenic global warming exists. :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Global_Warming_Swindle
BBC THE TRUTH ABOUT CLIMATE CHANGE PART 1 - YouTube
The battle caused by Climate Wars
Our BBC documentary was right to cover the whole debate, even if the scientific consensus is that global warming is a reality:
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2008/oct/02/climatechange.television
I realize I am typing on the edge of the political forum containment-I did not claim any political side-hope that's acceptable.