9 Articles on record cold temperatures

I've read 9 articles today on record cold temperatures.  I am not sure how to balance this with the cries of Global Warming.  I looked at Al Gore's charts and we are on the upswing of the trend, but it sure seems like a bold and big leap of faith to assume that we are going to stay going upward when millions of years of history shows that we have been this high in the past.

A volcano puts out as much pollution in  one eruption as the U.S. does in about 20 years!  What ended the "Ice Age" to begin with.  I do not believe it was cars and Industrialization.

I do not know what to think.