"Baby it's cold outside" is not a refutation

I've occasionally contended with the climate change skeptirati about the increasing Antarctic sea ice cover, pointing out that there has been more than one way to explain this as a consequence of warming ocean temperatures. Scant comfort there. Now there's a report tying colder winters (such as the one that is currently slugging Europe) with global warming, specifically its manifestation as a melter of Arctic sea ice.

Cold winters driven by global warming: scientists

Nonetheless, the simpletons who preach obfuscations to the simple folk who believe them -- ie., to the flock of anti-science conservatives who think that "Watts Up With That" is a bastion of scientific accuracy -- will say that colder winters mean that global warming is a) exaggerated, b) not a problem, c) not happening, d) a hoax, or e) all of the above, and never mind the fact that in a complex system, simple correlations do not necessarily indicate what's actually happening.

But accomplished lying scum like the esteemed Marc Morano, prime example of such, don't care who they mislead as long as they're scoring PR points for their sugar (or is oil) daddies.

But they take-away advice is this: don't find cold comfort about global warming in cold winters.