Careful Howard. "Winning the argument..." well, the article says "climate sceptics winning the argument with the public" - which means exactly what it says. It doesn't mean they are right, or he is right, it just means that the public are willing to believe that climate change is not as big an issue as is believed. Of course they are. People always want to be told that they don't have to bother - less expense and effort for them.
Read the article and it is clear that he believes the earth is hotting up.
Just because the last few years have seen a return to "old-fashioned" weather it doesn't mean that the warming trend is not relentlessly upward. We are at a solar minimum when the sun's strength is reduced and moreover it seems that pollution from soaring Chinese coal consumption is having a temporary cooling effect by blocking out the sun's rays:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-14002264
From the planet's point of view mankind is a destructive force, but the earth has the capacity to recover.