Northeast US blizzard proves global warming, or something

As the snow piles up over the Northeast, it is clear that global warming or climate change has caused this storm.  Please take the opportunity to write up a prospective/perspective article as comments and I will combine them into the most coherent narrative for the folks at the New York Times or Washington Post to use in their newspapers.  Note, you may use anonymous sources or experts in the field to come up with testimony.  You may/should probably include anecdotes from  storm-weary travelers who have never experienced anything like this before.   Also, bonus points will be awarded to those that incorporate climate model predictions, which are almost always spot on when it comes to “forecasting” these “extreme events”.  We will compare our efforts to what the elites ensconced in Washington, New York City, Boston, and London come up with.

Note to the blog police:  this exercise is meant to be illustrative of the contortions that the media on both sides of the Atlantic have undergone to rationalize “winter weather”.

So far, Wade has set the standard for best journalism.

Update December 29, 2010: Time Magazine does not disappoint: blizzard is a sign of global warming!