Well, they must have a good business, because this extremely horrible winter pretty much makes people suicidal, if the winter hasn't already killed them.

Really this has been a terrible winter for the whole U.S. An explanation that most people don't seem to know about is that sunspot activity is at an extreme low. There's only 10% of the sunspot activity that is normal, and they project that this problem is going to continue for at least 5 years. Sunspots send a lot of energy Earthward, so the people who are saying we may have another "Little Ice Age" may be correct.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_variation

• Perry and Hsu (2000) proposed a simple model based on emulating harmonics by multiplying the basic 11-year cycle by powers of 2, which produced results similar to Holocene behavior. Extrapolation suggests a gradual cooling during the next few centuries with intermittent minor warmups and a return to near Little Ice Age conditions within the next 500 years. This cool period then may be followed approximately 1,500 years from now by a return to altithermal conditions similar to the previous Holocene Maximum. ^{[ 36 ]}