This got our attention:
From the top of the world to near the bottom, freakish and
unprecedented weather has sent temperatures soaring across the Arctic,
whipped the United Kingdom with hurricane-force winds and spawned
massive flooding in South America.
The same storm that
slammed the southern United States with deadly tornadoes and swamped the
Midwest, causing even greater loss of life, continued on to the Arctic.
Subtropical air pulled there is now sitting over Iceland, and at what
should be a deeply sub-zero North Pole, temperatures on Wednesday
appeared to reach the melting point — more than 50 degrees above normal.
That was warmer than Chicago. (our emphasis)
The article attempts to tease out declarations from noted climatologists Michael Mann, Jeff Masters and others that this is indicative of human- caused global climate change. But, being scientists, they're somewhat loathe to make a definitive link without further study:
Nicola Maxey, a press officer from Britain’s national weather service,
the Met Office, also noted that it is “still too early to say
definitively” whether global climate change produced December’s record
rainfall.
However, she added via email, “all the evidence from fundamental physics
and our understanding of our weather systems suggests there may be a
link.”
While "
we're not scientists," we'll hazard an educated guess that THERE'S A LINK!
This got our attention: 
