Is anybody else getting worried?

I don't think it's Armeggedon, but how about the start of the next Ice Age?

Record-breaking continent-wide storms in the US

http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/02/02/winter.storm/index.html?iref=NS1

Long-dormant Japanese volcano wakes up

http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/asiapcf/02/02/japan.volcano/index.html?hpt=T2

Australia bracing for monster Cyclone

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/41363738/ns/weather/

Birds dropping from the sky

http://newsfeed.time.com/2011/01/03/why-did-thousands-of-birds-drop-dead-in-the-arkansas-sky/

Massive fish kills in Arkansas and elsewhere

http://articles.cnn.com/2011-01-02/us/arkansas.fish.kill_1_massive-fish-dead-birds-bird-deaths?_s=PM:US

Massive protests and people setting themselves on fire in North Africa and the Middle East

http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/middle-east-protest-setting-fire/story?id=12749520

Or just global warming at work?

http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,2039777,00.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/15/science/earth/15climate.html?pagewanted=all

I hope this is simply an aberration, a freak weather system caused by a temporary kink in the jet stream vs a permanent change. Am I the girl who cried wolf, or is the wolf really at our door? Or am I just going stir-crazy being trapped in the house with 3 little kids for soooo long?!