You should download "spin spotter" and then run it on the last article you linked to. Shredded to bits. What is written is mostly conjecture on the part of the writer, not based in fact.

Blame away but political blame has nothing to do with the ever increasing "100 year" storms that seem to be hitting all of the country. The weather pattern is changing and man may not be 100% behind it but the extra carbon in the air is contributing to it in part. We may be hastening a natural process or we may be causing it, either way we need to find a solution that doesn't involve burning fossil fuels of any kind. Technology to stretch shrinking resources is helping but not enough is being done to make it affordable to the average American. Would I buy a 3 wheel ultra efficient commuter(enclosed for weather protection so no motorcycles) for general use? Heck yes if it was affordable. Most of my trips don't require carrying cargo other than a few bags of groceries so it would be useful. For the few trips requiring heavy cargo carrying make truck rental cheap enough that people will rent instead of buy. The big key is affordable, fast enough for longer trips on the interstate etc. Worry about heavier vehicles can be solved with the use of separate lanes so the chance of getting squished is reduced.

While some of these particular specific preditions were not central tenets of AGW, unforeseeable secondary effects of rapid climate change are expected and will become more defined in the coming decades.

Global Warming to Bring More Intense Storms to Northern Hemisphere in Winter and Southern Hemisphere Year Round

ScienceDaily (Oct. 25, 2010) — Weather systems in the Southern and Northern hemispheres will respond differently to global warming, according to an MIT atmospheric scientist's analysis that suggests the warming of the planet will affect the availability of energy to fuel extratropical storms, or large-scale weather systems that occur at Earth's middle latitudes. The resulting changes will depend on the hemisphere and season, the study found.

www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/10/101025152249.htm

Arctic Report Card: Region Continues to Warm at Unprecedented Rate

ScienceDaily (Oct. 22, 2010) — The Arctic region, also called the "planet's refrigerator," continues to heat up, affecting local populations and ecosystems as well as weather patterns in the most populated parts of the Northern Hemisphere, according to a team of 69 international scientists.

.....There is also evidence that the effect of higher air temperatures in the Arctic atmosphere in fall is contributing to changes in the atmospheric circulation in both the Arctic and northern mid-latitudes[that is us]. Winter 2009-2010 showed a link between mid-latitude extreme cold and snowy weather events and changes in the wind patterns of the Arctic, related to a phase of the Arctic Oscillation

If we took away all the subsidies from everyone maybe supply and demand would have a better chance of actually controlling price. But you would also have to do away with the investors on Wall street who invest in commodities and drive prices up with no regard to supply and demand.