This can hardly be termed variability. Yet some people pointed to the

severe cold blast the first week of April as proof that there is no climate

change. That is simply an uneducated opinion.

The experts tell us that the warming of the planet will push weather to

extremes in all directions - droughts, floods, heat waves, cold spells,

stronger hurricanes and blizzards.

The skeptics also point out that 2006 was a normal hurricane season,

but they don't mention that the typhoon season in the western Pacific

Ocean was much worse than normal with 6 extremely strong storms

hitting mainland China in a season comparable to the 2005 hurricane

season in the Atlantic.

Since there is little hope of reducing CO2 emissions for several years,

this trend is only going to continue.

NOAA Report:

Despite Record Cold Start, April Temperature Near Average for U.S., Global

April Surface Temperature Third Warmest on Record,5/16/07

http://www.publicaffairs.noaa.gov/releases2007/may07/noaa07-029.html