strange weather

Now that the elections are almost over it dawned on me that the weather really is not normal. We've had warm days and cold days in succession before, but the rain pattern is really weird. Here in the northeast we're only getting these huge hard storms with lots of wind instead of some soft, some drizzles and some hard. Washington state is flooding. California's had drought for a while and Austrailia is suffering really bad drought the worst in 1000 years??

Some people insist it's global warming, some insist that it's just natual climatic change, global warming is a myth. And then just recently a government leader in some foreign country who cut Bush when he came to talk about global warming because he didnt believe just changed his mind.
I read a sci fi story once about how the fear of global warming caused all these laws to be past and the world went from temperate to frozen. That's a little bit of what bothers me. If they try so hard to prevent the temperature to rise they might just cause us to freeze. Paranoia is a bitch.