Like the chap said, he's a journo (with a beef) not a climate expert.
Firstly, local weather is not global weather.
Secondly, the arctic ice is most definitely in a melting trend, not growing.
http://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/
A responsible journalist would check the underlying facts not make false statements from which to draw wrong conclusions. He needs to check out the North Atlantic Oscillation and Arctic dipole.
http://www.skepticalscience.com/Global-Warming-Cold-Winters.html
The following articles provides insights into how scientific understanding increases by degrees - pun intended :)
http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2010/12/cold-winter-in-a-world-of-warming/
http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2011/03/what-we-do-not-know-in-terms-of-adaptation/
(Canada Free Press has a dreadful record of misleading and blatantly wrong articles on climate science and should never be relied upon for facts.)
