Getting warmer?

I thoroughly enjoyed the Winter Olympics as they wrapped up this past weekend, (I also think that the Winter games are MUCH better than the summer ones- but that could be because I like the winter better in general.) So once again I find myelf concerned about the hypotheses about climate change and the warming that many say is inevitable and to some degree already happening. So it was sad when the Vancouverites had to truck in snow for the mountains above the city (not Whistler- they had too much snow) sometimes you have bad luck- before getting 7 feet in Utah I had been watching and they hadn't had snow for 2.5 weeks; VT had no snow in February then 4 ft last week. Its just how winter goes; or is it? Global warming folks jumped on this saying clearly its global warming; no snow= rising temperatures, but this a gross misstatement. It also is that the colder it is the less snow you will have- its simply too cold and can't hold the moisture. Conversely on the other side of spectrum they quote the coldest year in recorded history (some ~150 years) and 2 of the 10 largest recorded snowfalls in the East in 3 days! say that global warming? where? (now going forward warmer= holding more moisture and its also been made a case for warming)
I fall somewhere in between, I find Al Gore to be a fear mongerer, and complete deniers of climate change to be deluded. But I think our effort to 'prove' the global warming theory (carbon in the atmosphere directly related to warming temperatures) is (in the wrong hands) dangerous. Conservative talking head Pat Buchanan published this today. And while it too is a blunt (and one sided piece- but isn't that the definition of an op-ed?) it brings up some valid points. Anomalies are part of research but its very frustrating to me to watch people (dangerous?) spout the terrors of global warming and selectively chose facts that support them. As I said before the only way that climate change can be 'pure' is using the double blind system; the same system that the medical field uses where the true experiment is done by people who don't know the intended result.
Look, I want my snow; and I want lots of it, so a cooler climate is in my best interests, and I support efforts to reduce carbon emissions where feasible, but coming off the coldest year in recorded history (yes- an anomaly but still...) there is no tempered way of looking at it; and just because I question something doesn't mean I'm not paying attention- it just might be I don't always take things at face value.